Project

Improving Connectivity in Central Forest Spine (CFS) Landscape (IC-CFS)

Lead country

Malaysia

Participating countries

Malaysia

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From May 20, 2014 to December 31, 2023

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.1 Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems
  2. 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  3. 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management

Project ID: 4594

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Mainstreaming biodiversity
  • Strengthening conservation areas

Sub-area(s)

  • Wildlife conservation
  • Biodiversity financing

Landscape(s)

  • Forests
  • Conserved areas
  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Tropical forests
  • Key biodiversity areas (KBAs)
  • Terrestrial protected areas
  • Indigenous and communities conserved areas (ICCAs)
  • Rural areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Forestry and other land use
  • Tourism

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Institutional mechanism and system building
  • Policy advice

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Management operation
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Mainstream
  • Adaptive governance
  • Institutional framework
  • Ecosystem-based management
  • Sustainable land management
  • Conserved areas/ protected areas management
  • Awareness raising
  • Institutional capacity building

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Indigenous peoples

Gender equality

  • Women's access to and control over resources

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.1 Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems
  • 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  • 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management

Conventions and protocols

  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration

About this project

Description

The Central Forest Spine (CFS) of Peninsular Malaysia is recognised for its population of the endangered Malayan tiger as well as being extraordinary rich in biodiversity in general; it also provides the country with considerable ecosystem goods and services and contains the water supply for most of the population on the peninsular. This project will conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services in three critical landscapes of the Central Forest Spine, by supporting the country's CFS Master Plan to restore connectivity between forest complexes. It will strengthen the national and local institutional frameworks for CFS management and law-enforcement and support sustainable forest landscape management. It will achieve sustainability of funding for conservation through the diversification of funding sources and the mainstreaming of ecosystem service values into land-use planning. The project is consistent with several GEF 5 Strategic Objectives: BD-2, Outcome 2.1: Increase in sustainably managed landscapes and seascapes that integrate biodiversity conservation; LD-3, Outcome 3.1: Enhanced cross-sector enabling environment for integrated landscape management; LD-3, Outcome 3.3: Increased investments in integrated landscape management; and SFM REDD+ -1, Outcome 1.2: Good management practices applied in existing forests. The project will be responsible for achieving the following objective: to increase federal and state level capacity to execute the CFS Master Plan through the implementation of sustainable forest landscape management plans in three pilot sites, financed sustainably through the diversification and increased allocation of funds for conservation. It is designed to lift the barriers to establishment of a landscape approach to the management of biodiversity. The project will comprise three complementary components, which will be cost shared by the GEF and co-financing. Each addresses a different barrier and has discrete outcomes, as follows:Component 1. Planning, compliance monitoring and enforcement framework for integrated forest landscape management; Component 2. Sustainable forest landscape management of three priority forest landscapes within the CFS; and, Component 3. Diversification of financing sources for conservation.The project supports the objectives of 10th Malaysia Plan, National Physical Plan 2005, Central Forest SpineMaster Plan 2008 and National Tiger Action Plan 2008. It also benefits from 3 on going/completed UNDPprojects in Malaysia, namely PA, NBSAP, REDD+, and PES

Objectives

To increase federal and state level capacity to execute the CFSMP through the strengthening of institutional and operational structures and the piloting of sustainable forest landscape management plans in three tiger-priority landscapes, financed sustainably through the diversification of funding sources for conservation.

USD $10,960,000

Grant amount

USD $36,850,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($10,960,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Malaysia

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Strengthened institutional capacity of the Federal Government to oversee implementation of the CFSMP, ensuring compliance by sub-national actors, and monitoring impacts upon biodiversity, ecosystems and carbon stocks

 Indicators:

Funds invested into CFS conservation (apart from GEF funds)
Natural forest of 4 forest blocks of CFS (Main Range Forest Complex, South-east Pahang Peat Swamp Forest, Greater Taman Negara complex, Endau-Rompin-Sedili complex)
Overall score of CFS Capacity Development Scorecard
Existence of environmental monitoring and management systems applicable to landscape management planning
National CFS steering committee equipped to apply environmental monitoring and management tools in supervision of state level landscape management planning and monitoring of compliance to CFSMP
Percentage of recorded wildlife crime cases that are prosecuted and convicted in court
Tiger populations in source PAs
GEF Land Degradation-3 Tracking Tool score
Multi-stakeholder landscape management plan implemented in each landscape, informed by biodiversity, ecosystem services and carbon stocks values
Status of biodiversity in the CFS
GEF SFM-REDD+ tracking tool
Presence of wildlife in corridor areas
Conservation-related livelihood activities involving both men and women established in pilot areas and making significant contributions to household income of Orang Asli participants
Number of reported HWC incidences within communities, and level of economic loss for men, women and households in general
New and additional sources of funding for conservation in the CFS are in place (of at least $1 million by EoP) and functioning as reflected in BD-2 TT
Coordinated mechanism in place for attracting, earmarking and administering funding for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation in the CFS
CFS conservation management is supported by sustainable financing plans
Outcome 2:

Enhanced wildlife crime law enforcement and wildlife monitoring capacity emplaced at national and state levels and in target forest landscapes to ensure reduction of wildlife and forestry crime
Outcome 3:

Biodiversity and ecosystem service provision is mainstreamed in forest landscape management in the three priority landscapes via sustainable forest landscape management plans, resulting in maintained status of biodiversity and ecosystem services
Outcome 4:

Corridor establishment increases connectivity of critical ecological linkages identified in the CFSMP and supports carbon emission avoidance and carbon sequestration under SFM practices
Outcome 5:

The socio-economic status of local communities improved and support for conservation increased through the generation of sustainable livelihoods based on wildlife, and the reduction of human-wildlife conflict
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