Project

Operationalizing Protected Area Management Systems in Eritrea

Lead country

Eritrea

Participating countries

Eritrea

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From March 28, 2014 to March 28, 2021

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. 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction

Project ID: 4816

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem management and restoration
  • Mainstreaming biodiversity

Sub-area(s)

  • Wildlife conservation

Landscape(s)

  • Forests
  • Marine

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Marine and coastal protected areas
  • Specially protected areas (SPAs)
  • Coasts
  • Coral reefs

Transformed sector(s)

  • Forestry and other land use

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Policy advice

Strategy

  • Management operation
  • Governance
  • Mitigation adaptation

Sub-strategy

  • Conserved areas/ protected areas management
  • Institutional framework
  • Ecosystem mitigation and adaptation

Social inclusion

N/A

Gender equality

  • Women farmers
  • Livelihoods for women
  • Women's cooperatives and groups

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation
  • Reduce exposure
  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.1 Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems
  • 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  • 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction

Conventions and protocols

  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  • National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

N/A

About this project

Description

The Title is Integrated Semenawi and Debubawi Bahri-Buri-Irrori- Hawakil Protected Area System for Conservation of Biodiversity and Mitigation of Land Degradation. The project directly addresses BD-1: Improve Sustainability of Protected Area Systems. Biodiversity conservation received limited support in the initial years after independence, as the government focused on addressing pressing human development issues. The government has however, recently refocused its development program with a view to improving environmental management, but the country has no national framework for the management of Protected Areas. The project seeks to address this gapÔÇöthe operationalization of a National Protected Area system. It will do so by establishing the necessary institutional framework and capacity for management, as well as gazetting and operationalising management in the Semenawi and Debubawi Bahri-Buri-Irrori- Hawakil Protected Area cluster, which will provide the initial heart of the PA system. These areas will be zoned into national parks and limited use marine and terrestrial Reserves, covering 110,860 hectares, encompassing areas of highest biodiversity significance. The project will further seek to address threats to biodiversity in immediately surrounding areas, also critical for biodiversity, but where human settlements preclude the establishment of strict protected areas. Land degradation in these areas poses a critical risk to habitats, and is threatening flora and fauna. A total of 190,777 hectares of land will be designated as Managed Resource Use PA (IUCN category 6) to contain these pressures. The MRPAs will be managed under a range of co-management agreements between Zoba and national authorities, local communities and the private sector, as suited to the specific management challenges facing different sites. SLM technologies will be promoted to combat land and accompanying habitat degradation, and reduce the vulnerability of the communities to climate change and poverty, thereby containing the threats to biodiversity in this landscape.

Objectives

Create policy and institutional conditions to operationalize the national protected area system.

USD $6,028,000

Grant amount

USD $10,600,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($6,028,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Ministry of National Development

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Establishment of protected area policy and institutional frameworks to operationalize national protected areas system

 Indicators:

Total annual government financing for management and conservation of national protected area system.
Total hectares legally designated as a national protected area conforming to basic IUCN standards/categories
Total hectares of critical habitat conserved within newly established national protected areas.
National government law/proclamation legalizing the application of IUCN based designations for establishment of terrestrial and marine protected areas.
Number of Eritreans annually enrolled in national university accredited biodiversity conservation training course.
Number of national protected area conservation strategies and annual reports completed and updated by the national protected area administration(s).
Number of trained professional staff employed full-time by the Government as part of the protected areas administration to manage the national protected area system.
Number of wildlife monitoring surveys/studies conducted and reported annually by protected area administration for key species and habitats within national protected areas.
Individual protected areas receive annual financial support adequate to implement PA management plan priorities and conserve globally significant species.
METT scores for at least three marine/terrestrial protected areas increase by 25%
Number of protected area management and business plans operational, assessed and updated by each protected area administration.
Number of trained professional staff employed full-time by the Government to manage individual protected areas.
Number of farm and fishing field school participants adopting ecosystem conservation practices as detailed in the community ecosystem services conservation plans.
Number of FFS participant households and women reporting increased levels of food security.
Number of project area residents who are participating members of farm/fisheries field (FFS) schools.
Surface water quality/quantity of main upland streams improved to more closely meet needs of natural ecosystem function.
Total hectares of native forest cover within the Green Belt.
Total number of grazing species found within project's coastal areas.
Outcome 2:

Emplacement of management capacity and experience required operationalize national protected area system
Outcome 3:

Generation of SLM/SFM capacity required to support national system of protected areas
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