Lead country
Botswana
Participating countries
Botswana
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From November 1, 2017 to November 1, 2024
Project ID: 5590
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Ecosystem management and restoration
Sub-area(s)
- Agrobiodiversity
- Ecosystem-based adaptation
- Wildlife conservation
Landscape(s)
- Conserved areas
- Forests
Sub-landscape(s)
- Productive landscapes/Seascapes
- Dryland forests
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
- Livestock
- Tourism
UNDP role(s)
- Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
Strategy
- Management operation
- Governance
- Capacity building
Sub-strategy
- Wildlife and habitat conservation
- Sustainable land management
- Ecosystem mitigation and adaptation
- Laws enforcement/ Regulation
- Surveillance & Compliance
- Institutional framework
- Sustainable agriculture practices and use of resources (TP 2, 7, 8, 9)
- Institutional capacity building
- Community capacity building
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Private sector
Gender equality
- Gender-responsive policies
- Awareness raising (on gender)
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender targeted
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- People pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Reduce exposure
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
- 15.7 End wildlife poaching, illegal species trafficking
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Large corporations
Hot topic
- Structural/system transformation
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
About this project
Description
Project Summary: Natural resources management in the Kalahari landscape is characterised by competition and conflict between conservation goals, economic development and livelihoods. Home to large herds of angulates and iconic predators, the landscape was dominated by low density wildlife with hunter gatherer livelihoods until borehole farming enabled cattle ranching a few decades ago. The consequent rangeland degradation and ecosystem fragmentation threatens wildlife and economic development. Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) meant to support wildlife-based economic activities and secure migratory corridors linking the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve continue to be lost to livestock encroachment, due to delayed gazettement. Wildlife is under additional threat from poaching, wildlife poisoning and illegal wildlife trade (IWT). The recent ban on hunting has reduced benefits from CBNRM (which in the context of Botswana has largely been based on consumptive use (i.e. hunting) of wildlife, reducing incentives for conservation. Stakeholders lack the planning tools, institutional coordination and operational capacities to balance competing needs and optimise environment, socio and economic outcomes. In particular there is weak coordination in tackling poaching, wildlife poisoning and IWT, weak capacities for improving rangeland management and limited incentives for local communities to protect wildlife. The project will remove these barriers using the following strategies: Coordinating capacity for combating wildlife crime/trafficking and enforcement of wildlife policies and regulations at district, national and international levels (Component 1); Integrated landscape management practices at community and resource-use levels to reduce competition between land-uses and increase agro-ecosystem productivity (component 2); Development of CBNRM for conservation and SLM to secure livelihoods and biodiversity (component 3); and, Gender mainstreaming, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation (Component 4).
Objectives
To promote an integrated landscape approach to managing Kgalagadi and Ghanzi drylands for ecosystem resilience, improved livelihoods and reduced conflicts between wildlife conservation and livestock production.
USD $6,146,789
Grant amount
USD $22,500,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($6,146,789)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Botswana
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