Project

Increasing resilience of ecosystems and vulnerable communities to CC and anthropic threats through a ridge to reef approach to BD conservation and watershed management

Lead country

Haiti

Participating countries

Haiti

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From October 29, 2015 to March 15, 2021

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.1 Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems
  2. 14.2 Sustainably manage, protect, restore marine, coastal ecosystems
  3. 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning

Project ID: 4648

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Ecosystem-based adaptation
  • Biodiversity financing

Landscape(s)

  • Marine
  • Conserved areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Coasts
  • Marine and coastal protected areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Forestry and other land use

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Innovative approaches

Strategy

  • Finance economy
  • Capacity building
  • Governance

Sub-strategy

  • Blue economy
  • Community capacity building
  • Institutional framework

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs

Gender equality

  • Livelihoods for women

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • People pathway
  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.1 Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems
  • 14.2 Sustainably manage, protect, restore marine, coastal ecosystems
  • 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Poverty reduction

About this project

Description

1.The current project will deliver help to reduce the vulnerability of poor people in Haiti to the effects of climate change, while at the same time conserving threatened coastal and marine biodiversity. These benefits are highly interdependent: investments in climate-proofed BD conservation strategies will enable coastal and marine ecosystems to continue to generate Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EBA) services; while additional investment of adaptation funds in the watersheds which drain into these ecosystems will serve to maximize BD benefits and ecosystem functions, as well as generating EBA benefits for the populations living in the watersheds themselves.

Objectives

Watersheds and coastal areas in Haiti are spatially configured and managed to increase the resilience of ecosystems and vulnerable communities to climate change and anthropic threats.

USD $9,315,068

Grant amount

USD $42,500,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility Trust Fund & Least Developed Countries Fund ($9,315,068)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Haiti

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Increased resilience to climate threats in key watersheds and coastal ecosystems.

 Indicators:

O.1.  Extent of application of watershed management practices that contribute to CC resilience and to reducing upstream-downstream impacts
O.1.    Increased populations of fish on coral reefs, including herbivores of importance for maintaining the health of coral reefs
O.2. Areas of coastal and marine ecosystems (coral reefs, mangroves and sea grass beds) in the target complexes of importance for ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change
1.1.     Improvements in climate change resilience among men and women in target communities, as measured by participatory assessments (e.g. IIED CRISTAL or Tear Fund methodologies, to be confirmed at project start)
1.2.     Areas of ecosystems of critical importance for EBA that have been actively restored
1.3.     Degree of incorporation of EBA/CC considerations and integrated landscape approach into planning instruments covering areas of importance for EBA and/or particularly vulnerable to CC
2.1.    Increase in the coverage of priority coastal and marine ecosystems (coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds) that have been declared and gazetted as protected areas (marine managed areas)
2.2.    Area covered by alternative management or protection categories providing for active integrated management and use
2.3.    Maintenance of income levels of fisher families (men and women) due to alternative livelihood opportunities and/or improvements in quality and value of fish caught and sold
2.4.    Reductions in total threat levels affecting proposed coastal and marine PAs, as measured through the GEF Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT)
2.5.    Management effectiveness rating of target PAs (including improvements in infrastructure and enforcement), measured through the GEF Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT)
Outcome 2:

Establishment and management of PAs in the marine and coastal zones of target watersheds
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Increasing resilience of ecosystems and vulnerable communities to CC and anthropic threats through a ridge to reef approach to BD conservation and watershed management

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