Project

SPWA – Niger Delta Biodiversity Project

Lead country

Nigeria

Participating countries

Nigeria

Project status

Closure

Implementing period

From September 26, 2012 to November 18, 2020

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.1 Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems
  2. 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
  3. 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use

Project ID: 2047

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Mainstreaming biodiversity
  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Agrobiodiversity
  • Biodiversity financing
  • Wildlife conservation

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas
  • FreshWaters
  • Wetlands

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Key biodiversity areas (KBAs)
  • Rivers and river basins
  • Mangroves

Transformed sector(s)

  • Oil, gas and fuels

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Innovative approaches
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Management operation
  • Finance economy

Sub-strategy

  • Participatory governance models
  • Mainstream
  • Institutional framework
  • Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
  • Wildlife and habitat conservation
  • Nature finance

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Private sector

Gender equality

  • Women farmers
  • 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
  • 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
  • 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use

Conventions and protocols

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

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Poverty reduction
  • Nature-based solution

About this project

Description

The Niger Delta region of Nigeria, covering an area of approximately 112,000 sq km, is one of the largest wetlands in the world, characterized by diverse ecosystems, abundant natural resources, and extreme poverty. The biodiversity importance of the Niger Delta Region cannot be overstated. Also known for its large deposits of crude oil and gas, the Niger Delta accounts for over 80% of NigeriaÔÇÖs total annual earnings. However, oil and gas (O&G) developments have been highly damaging to the Niger DeltaÔÇÖs environment, eliminating habitats, threatening species, and destroying the livelihoods for many traditional resource user, livelihoods that are based on farming and fishing. The persistence of poverty, environmental problems and conflict in the Niger Delta, in spite of enormous financial investments by government, O&G companies and other donors, indicates the need to rethink the framework for development in the region. This project will focus in particular on the need to raise the bar for biodiversity management in the Niger Delta in order to provide protection to the wealth of habitats and species that the region harbours and to the essential environmental services the regionÔÇÖs ecosystems provide (e.g. water, nutrient and carbon cycles). The project is slated to mainstream biodiversity conservation priorities into the Niger Delta oil and gas (O&G) sector development policies and operations. This will be achieved through the realisation of three outcomes:1. Governance framework for the mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation into the O&G sector in the Niger Delta will be improved;2. The O&G industry and community will be engaged in biodiversity management in the Niger Delta; and 3. Financial mechanisms for O&G sector support to biodiversity conservation will be piloted.

Objectives

To mainstream biodiversity management priorities into the Niger Delta oil and gas (O&G) sector development policies and operations.

USD $3,757,000

Grant amount

USD $10,813,350

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,757,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Nigeria

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