Project

Strengthening Management Effectiveness and Resilience of Protected Areas to Safeguard Biodiversity Threatened by Climate Change

Lead country

Mexico

Participating countries

Mexico

Project status

Closure

Implementing period

From March 26, 2014 to December 31, 2020

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 13.1 Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards
  2. 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
  3. 13.b Build capacity for climate change planning, management

Project ID: 4647

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Biodiversity financing
  • Ecosystem-based adaptation

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Specially protected areas (SPAs)

Transformed sector(s)

  • Forestry and other land use

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Innovative approaches
  • Policy advice

Strategy

  • Mitigation adaptation
  • Management operation
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Ecosystem mitigation and adaptation
  • Conserved areas/ protected areas management
  • Technical capacity building

Social inclusion

N/A

Gender equality

  • Women decision making
  • Awareness raising (on gender)
  • Gender-responsive policies

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Sci-tech pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 13.1 Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards
  • 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
  • 13.b Build capacity for climate change planning, management

Conventions and protocols

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

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

N/A

About this project

Description

1.The proposed project aims to transform management and coverage of terrestrial and coastal protected areas in Mexico to alleviate the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on globally significant biodiversity. This will be achieved through a three-pronged approach: development of management systems (monitoring and early warning systems, management decision making tools and sustainable financing) in order to optimize readiness at national level to address the anticipated implications of climate change for the PA system as a whole; expanding PAs in landscapes that are particularly sensitive to climate change, in order to protect refugia and corridors; and building readiness to address specific climate change impacts in vulnerable PAs.

Objectives

The Mexican Protected Area system is spatially configured and managed to increase resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change on biological diversity.

USD $20,445,454

Grant amount

USD $77,072,060

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($20,445,454)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Mexico

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Mexican PA system readiness framework effectively safeguards BD.

 Indicators:

Financial sustainability to increase resilience of Mexican PA system
The Mexican Protected Area system is spatially configured and managed to increase resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change on biological diversity
Institutional framework strengthened to increase PA resilience from CC impacts and risks.
Planning, Management and Information System for decision making to mainstream CC into integrated land-use planning that increases biodiversity resilience
Area of functional connectivity between critical habitat blocks surrounding and within PAs maintained or increased to enhance ecosystem resilience through ecoregion-based incentive schemes
Expansion of areas of conservation in priority ecoregions and refugia facilitated by GIS database, measured by the increase in area under conservation to promote connectivity and protect important refugia.
Governance framework regarding land-use is strengthened through coordination and gender- and indigenous -sensitive participation forums to consider PA conservation and increased risks associated with CC.
Improved capacity for planning, implementation and monitoring of site-specific co-managed strategies for increasing resilience in PAs.
Strengthened management of vulnerable PAs, based on site-specific information generated from pilots in order to address CC risks and threats, with a landscape focus and sustainable productive activities:
a) Increased management capacity of priority PAs reflected in METT scores
b) Cost-effective management actions to reduce vulnerability, to be undertaken in ecoregional clusters (based on 2012 data and to be confirmed by Vulnerability Analysis at end of Year 2) :These actions will contribute to the surface of improved connectivity in Outcome 2.
- Integrated fire management - Assisted terrestrial regeneration - Assisted coastal regeneration - Assisted marine regeneration - Sustainable land management - Prevention, control, eradication, and monitoring of introduced/ invasive species
Outcome 2:

Expansion of PA system to protect important refugia through connectivity and increased resiliency.
Outcome 3:

PA site management effectively reduces climate-related threats to BD as demonstrated through pilot activities and improved METT scores.
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