Lead country
Sri Lanka
Participating countries
Sri Lanka
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From January 25, 2017 to July 25, 2022
Project ID: 5529
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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)
- Mainstreaming integrated policy and planning for climate-resilient & sustainable development
- Cross-sectoral climate resilient livelihoods
- Fostering Food Security and resilient agricultural systems
Landscape(s)
- Forests
- Conserved areas
- Marine
Sub-landscape(s)
- Tropical forests
- Montane forests
- Marine and coastal protected areas
- Terrestrial protected areas
- Key biodiversity areas (KBAs)
- Coasts
- Coral reefs
- Mangroves
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
- Fisheries
- Forestry and other land use
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
Strategy
- Governance
- Law regulation
- Mitigation adaptation
Sub-strategy
- Partnerships
- Inter-sectoral coordination
- Adaptive governance
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Standards/ Labeling/ Guideline
- Green economy
- Data quality
- Water quality/quantity
- Ecological monitoring
Social inclusion
- Youth/Children
- Women
- Local community/CSOs
Gender equality
- Women's cooperatives and groups
- Women's access to and control over resources
- Women decision making
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Sci-tech pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 2.4 Ensure sustainable food production, maintain key ecosystems
- 2.5 Maintain genetic diversity for agriculture, traditional knowledge
- 2.a Increase investment in agricultural research, infrastructure
Conventions and protocols
- National Action Plan
Private sector(s)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
Hot topic
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
- Public-private partnership
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration
About this project
Description
The goal of this project is to support the achievement of global environmental benefits and the protection of the global environment through community and local solutions that work in harmony with local, national and global action. To that end, the objective of this project is to enable community organizations to take collective action for adaptive landscape management for socio-ecological resilience through design, implementation, and evaluation of grant projects for global environmental benefits and sustainable development in three ecologically sensitive landscapes: the Knuckles Conservation Forest and its buffer zone, the coastal region from Mannar Island to Jaffna, and the Colombo Wetlands. This will be carried out through participatory, multi-stakeholder, landscape management. The proposed interventions are aimed at enhancing social and ecological resilience through community-based, community-driven projects to conserve biodiversity, optimize ecosystem services, manage land (particularly agro-ecosystems) and water sustainably, and mitigate climate change. The pilots will build on experiences and lessons learned from previous SGP operational phases, and lessons learned from the COMDEKS Programme, to assist community organizations in carrying out and coordinating projects in pursuit of outcomes they have identified in landscape plans and strategies. Coordinated community projects in the landscape 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. Multi-stakeholder groups will also take experience, lessons learned, and best practices from prior initiatives and implement a number of potential scaling up efforts during this project's lifetime.
Objectives
To enable community-based organizations to take collective action for adaptive landscape management for socio-ecological resilience through design, implementation, and evaluation of grant projects for global environmental benefits and local sustainable development in three ecologically sensitive landscapes: the Knuckles Conservation Forest and its buffer zone, the coastal region from Mannar Island to Jaffna, and the Colombo Wetlands.
USD $2,557,078
Grant amount
USD $3,300,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,557,078)
Implementing partner(s)
- UN Office for Project Services
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