Project

Sixth Operational Phase of the GEF SGP in Sri Lanka

Lead country

Sri Lanka

Participating countries

Sri Lanka

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From January 25, 2017 to July 25, 2022

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 2.4 Ensure sustainable food production, maintain key ecosystems
  2. 2.5 Maintain genetic diversity for agriculture, traditional knowledge
  3. 2.a Increase investment in agricultural research, infrastructure

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

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Resilient rural landscapes for sustainable development and global environmental protectionMulti-stakeholder partnerships in three ecologically sensitive landscapes develop and execute management plans to enhance socio-ecological landscape resilience and global environmental benefits

 Indicators:

A. Area, across three landscapes, of sustainably managed production landscapes that conserve biodiversity and enhance ecosystem servicesB. Area of degraded lands in three project landscapes that are benefiting from land rehabilitation activities
C. Number of stakeholders actively engaged in and benefiting from local project activities
1.1 A multi-stakeholder group on landscape planning and management organized for each of the selected landscapes
1.2 A strategy to achieve greater social and ecological resilience for each landscape
1.3 A typology of community level initiatives in each landscape needed to achieve landscape outcomes
1.4 Formal cooperative agreements between community organizations and other partners in each landscape to pursue the outcomes of each strategy through community and landscape level projects
2.1 Area (hectares) under protection or sustainable use for biodiversity conservation or improved ecosystem function
2.2 Area (hectares) of reforested and/or afforested lands
2.3 Area (hectares) of degraded wetlands rehabilitated
2.4 Area (hectares) of forest cover lands set aside for carbon sequestration
2.5 Area (hectares) of land rehabilitated through best practice soil conservation measures
2.6 Area of land under improved grazing regimes
2.7 Area of agricultural land under agro-ecological practices and systems that increase sustainability and productivity and/or conserve crop genetic resources
2.8 Number of individuals in the communities that have benefited from new sustainable alternative livelihood options
3.1 Number of strategic projects supporting broader adoption of successful small grant project lessons
3.2 Number of community members in each of the three landscapes who have participated in the design and implementation of their respective scaling-up strategic project
4.1 Existence of operational multi-stakeholder governance platforms in the three landscapes, including local and higher levels of government, NGOs, academics, second level organizatios, and others
4.2 Number of case studies summarizing lessons learned and best practices, based on evaluation of implementation results at the landscape level
4.3 Awareness and knowledge of best practices promoted through knowledge sharing events and capacity building activities.
Outcome 2:

Community-based organizations in landscape level networks build their adaptive management capacities by implementing projects and collaborating in landscape management
Outcome 3:

Multi-stakeholder partnerships develop and implement projects that catalyze the adoption of successful SGP-supported technologies, practices, or systems
Outcome 4:

Multi-stakeholder landscape policy platforms will discuss potential policy innovations based on analysis of project experience and lessons learned.
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