Project

Sixth Operational Phase of the GEF SGP in Peru

Lead country

Peru

Participating countries

Peru

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From February 16, 2017 to August 15, 2021

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.1 Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems
  2. 15.4 Conserve mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity
  3. 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction

Project ID: 5497

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Technical team

  • Climate Strategies and Policy Programme

Cross-cutting programme(s)

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
  • Climate Change Adaptation Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Fostering Food Security and resilient agricultural systems

Landscape(s)

  • Grasslands
  • Wetlands
  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Grazing lands
  • Temperate grasslands
  • Drylands
  • General
  • Rural areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Livestock
  • Tourism

UNDP role(s)

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

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Management operation
  • Monitor inventory

Sub-strategy

  • Partnerships
  • Inter-sectoral coordination
  • Participatory governance models
  • Sustainable land management
  • Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
  • Wildlife and habitat conservation
  • Impact assessment
  • Knowledge/Data management

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Women

Gender equality

  • Women's access to and control over resources
  • Women decision making
  • Women farmers

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.1 Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems
  • 15.4 Conserve mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity
  • 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction

Conventions and protocols

  • National Determined Contributions (NDCs)
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Other Global Conventions

Private sector(s)

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Nature-based solution
  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration
  • Poverty reduction

About this project

Description

This project will empower community organizations in Peru to take collective action for socio-ecological resilience of their production landscapes in the Southern Cordillera of the Andes within the Regions of Arequipa, Cusco, Puno and Tacna - through design and implementation of grant projects for global environmental benefits and sustainable development. This will be achieved through four Outcomes: 1) Multi-stakeholder partnerships that develop and execute participatory adaptive management plans to enhance socio-ecological landscape resilience and global environmental benefits, 2) Community organizations in landscape level networks which build their adaptive management capacities by implementing community level projects and collaborating in managing landscape resources and processes to achieve landscape resiliency, 3) Multi-stakeholder partnerships which develop and implement strategic projects to bring adoption of specific successful SGP-supported technologies, practices or systems to a tipping point in each landscape through engagement of potential financial partners, policy makers and their national/subnational advisors and institutions, as well as the private sector, and 4) Multi-stakeholder landscape management groups, local policy makers and their subnational/national advisors organized in landscape policy platforms to discuss potential policy innovations based on analysis of project experience and lessons learned. The project will support some 60 community-based initiatives and up to four Strategic Projects in four selected strategic landscapes in the high Andes of the Southern Cordillera. These community-based initiatives will be implemented by legally established community-based organizations in partnership with others in each landscape and in coordinated pursuit of mutually agreed landscape management objectives. The SGP Project will collaborate closely with Regional, Provincial and District-level governments in the Regions of Arequipa, Cusco, Puno and Tacna, as well as with the private sector, universities, and NGOs. The project will be delivered through the GEF Small Grants Programme Peru Country Program as part of its long-term strategy of support to community organizations implementing grant projects to produce global environmental and sustainable development benefits. The project will be implemented under the SGP Strategic Operational Guidelines, which include grant approval by a majority civil society, SGP National Steering Committee and day-to-day management by the SGP Country Program Team under the leadership of the SGP Country Program Manager. UNDP will monitor and support the project as GEF Agency as well as continue to act as permanent member of the SGP National Steering Committee.

Objectives

To empower community organizations in four landscapes of the Southern Cordillera of southern Peru to take collective action for socio-ecological resilience of their production landscapes - through design and implementation of coordinated grant projects for global environmental benefits and sustainable developmentComponent 1: Resilient landscapes for sustainable development and global environmental protection.

USD $6,484,344

Grant amount

USD $5,752,984

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($6,484,344)

Implementing partner(s)

  • UN Office for Project Services

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