Project

Sixth Operational Phase of the GEF SGP in Mexico

Lead country

Mexico

Participating countries

Mexico

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From February 22, 2018 to July 20, 2022

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. 13.1 Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards

Project ID: 5531

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Technical team

  • Climate Strategies and Policy Programme

Cross-cutting programme(s)

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

N/A

Landscape(s)

  • Forests
  • Conserved areas
  • Marine

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Tropical forests
  • Rivers and river basins
  • Estuaries
  • Marine and coastal protected areas
  • Terrestrial protected areas
  • Indigenous and communities conserved areas (ICCAs)
  • Coral reefs
  • Mangroves
  • Rural areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Livestock

UNDP role(s)

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

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Finance economy
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Partnerships
  • Inter-sectoral coordination
  • Alignment
  • Nature finance
  • Green economy
  • Water quality/quantity
  • FACS strategies for sustainable supply chain (TP 4)
  • Sustainable agriculture practices and use of resources (TP 2, 7, 8, 9)
  • Crops diversity, nutrition and ABS (TP 1, 10)

Social inclusion

  • Youth/Children
  • Disabled
  • Elderly

Gender equality

  • Women's access to and control over resources
  • Women decision making
  • Land rights for women

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway
  • Sci-tech 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
  • 13.1 Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards

Conventions and protocols

  • National Action Plan
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Other Global Conventions

Private sector(s)

  • Financial intermediaries and market facilitators

Hot topic

  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy
  • Human rights
  • Cov-19

About this project

Description

The goal of this project is to contribute to achieving global environmental benefits by empowering local communities to manage production landscapes in Mexico's Southeast large ecosystems in a manner that enhances their social, economic and environmental sustainability and resilience. Resilience of five landscapes and seascapes Landscape and seascape resilience will be enhanced through the individual and synergistic impacts of a set of adaptive community practices that maintain ecosystem services, conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and reverse land degradation in the following large ecosystems: - Deltaic-estuarine landscape of the Grijalva-Usumacinta Rivers; - Coastal lagoons and marine interface in the northern Yucatan Peninsula; - Tropical deciduous, sub-deciduous and sub-evergreen forests in the Yucatan Peninsula; and - Montane broadleaf and cloud forest in northern Chiapas. The project will build on the results, experience and lessons from previous SGP phases, and lessons learned from relevant Programmes such as COMPACT. In particular, the project will establish or strengthen networks and second-level organizations to integrate and bring to scale production and marketing of sustainably produced goods and services. Coordinated community projects in the landscapes will generate ecological, economic and social synergies that will produce greater and potentially longer-lasting global environmental benefits, as well as increased social capital and local sustainable development benefits.

Objectives

To empower local communities to manage production land/seascapes in Mexico"s Southeast large ecosystems in a manner that enhances their social, economic and environmental sustainability and resilience.

USD $4,566,210

Grant amount

USD $6,333,389

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,566,210)

Implementing partner(s)

  • UN Office for Project Services

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Increased resilience of selected landscapes and seascapes for local sustainable development and global environmental benefits

Outputs:

Landscape and seascape resilience is enhanced through the individual and synergistic impacts of a set of adaptive community practices that maintain ecosystem services, conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and reverse land degradation in the following large ecosystems of Mexico's Southeast:Community-based organizations possess the organizational and managerial capacities for business development and performance on a larger scale to contribute to landscape and seascape management and governanceSuccessful small grants experiences from this and previous phases are consolidated/ up-scaled through production and marketing chains and second-level organizations as well as through exchange of knowledge and experiences, linking community-based organizations within and across landscapes/seascapes

 Indicators:

A. Increased area (hectares) in the target landscapes and seascape with improved community management
B. Tons of CO2e mitigated in community-owned lands through sustainable forest management and avoidance of forest fires
C. Number of communities directly benefiting from improved livelihoods and enhanced resilience to climate change
A. Upriver landscape of the Grijalva and Usumacinta Rivers A.1 Agroforestry production landscape in Northern Chiapas and Southern Tabasco A.1.1. Area under community management implementing agroecological principles and practices for selected crops A.2. Deltaic-estuarine production landscape of Tabasco and Campeche A.2.1 Number of community enterprises and initiatives contributing to sustainable fisheries and aquaculture with native speciesA.2.2 Number of hectares of continental and marine areas monitored to detect and control invasive alien species using SGP's established systemA.2.3 Number of fisheries with improved community managementB. Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Seascapes B.3.1 Number of community initiatives implementing alternative tourism as a substitute to unsustainable production practices
B.3.2 Area with improved community monitoring and control of marine alien invasive speciesC. Forest Landscape/Milpa Landscape
C.1 Timber and non-timber production forest landscapeC.1.1 Area with improved community forest managementC.1.2 Number of communities obtaining forest certification or retaining existing certificationC.1.3 Number of communities implementing alternative tourism activities
C.1.4 Area under community management implementing agroecological principles and practices for selected crops
1.2.1 Number of adaptive and participatory land/seascape management strategies and plans developed/updated
1.2.2 Number of community members with increased capacities for business development and management disaggregated by sex
1.3.1 Number of second level organizations established or consolidated at landscape or thematic levels
1.3.3 Number of strategic projects consolidating, replicating and up-scaling specific successful SGP-supported technologies, practices or systems
1.3.4 Number of knowledge products (case studies) produced and disseminated.
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