Lead country
Honduras
Participating countries
Honduras
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From December 15, 2014 to December 15, 2019
Project ID: 4826
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Strengthening conservation areas
Sub-area(s)
- Ecosystem-based mitigation
- Biodiversity financing
- Wildlife conservation
Landscape(s)
- Marine
- Conserved areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Coasts
- Marine and coastal protected areas
- Specially protected areas (SPAs)
Transformed sector(s)
- Aquaculture
- Fisheries
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Institutional mechanism and system building
- Normative support
Strategy
- Management operation
- Governance
- Mitigation adaptation
Sub-strategy
- Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
- Institutional framework
- Ecosystem mitigation and adaptation
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
Gender equality
- Livelihoods for women
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender targeted
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
- Reduce exposure
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 14.2 Sustainably manage, protect, restore marine, coastal ecosystems
- 14.4 Regulate harvesting, overfishing, illegal fishing
- 14.7 Increase economic benefits of marine resources to SIDS
Conventions and protocols
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Poverty reduction
About this project
Description
This project will apply a system-wide approach to increase the coverage, operational effectiveness and financial sustainability of Marine and Coastal Protected Areasin the north coast of Honduras, resulting in improved conservation of globally important marine and coastal biodiversity, improved productive sustainability of fisheries resources of national and regional importance and improved livelihood sustainability among fisher populations and others that depend directly and indirectly on coastal and marine resources. As such, the project will contribute to Outcome 1.1 under the GEF5 Biodiversity Focal Area, which aims to improve the management effectiveness of new and existing protected areas and deliver increased PA coverage of currently unprotected ecosystems. It will also thereby contribute to Goal 1.1 of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas of the CBD, "To establish and strengthen national and regional systems of protected areas integrated into a global network as a contribution to globally agreed goals", Goal 1.2 "To integrate protected areas into broader land- and seascapes and sectors so as to maintain ecological structure and function", Goal 1.4 "To substantially improve site-based protected area planning and management" and Goal 1.5 "To prevent and mitigate the negative impacts of key threats to protected areas".
Objectives
To promote the conservation of biodiversity through the expansion of the effective coverage of Marine and Coastal Protected Areasin Honduras.
USD $6,172,728
Grant amount
USD $11,600,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($6,172,728)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Honduras
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