Project

Strengthening the effectiveness of the National Protected Area System by including a landscape approach to management.

Lead country

Uruguay

Participating countries

Uruguay

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From June 4, 2014 to December 4, 2019

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
  2. 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
  3. 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management

Project ID: 4832

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Strengthening conservation areas
  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Wildlife conservation

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Terrestrial protected areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Forestry and other land use

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Innovative approaches
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Law regulation
  • Management operation

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional framework
  • Standards/ Labeling/ Guideline
  • Laws enforcement/ Regulation
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Sustainable land management
  • Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration

Social inclusion

N/A

Gender equality

  • Women decision making
  • Livelihoods for women
  • Women park rangers

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation
  • Reduce exposure
  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
  • 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
  • 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest 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

This project will consolidate a shift in the way that PAs in Uruguay are planned and managed, from their current situation that keeps them largely functionally isolated within a highly modified landscape to one in which they merge gradually, and are integrated into, the wider landscapes that surround them; and where the management of the PAs and that of the surrounding landscape is progressively harmonized. This is increasingly necessary as expansion of commercial monocultures and intensified production systems (in the agriculture, livestock and forestry sectors is making the landscapes surrounding PAs increasingly hostile to BD and accentuating their biological isolation, while at the same time increasing the threats posed to native species and ecosystems by invasive alien species (IAS). Phenomena associated with climate change are leading to increased threats to natural habitats from fire, and to modifications of the relative equilibrium between productive practices and biodiversity that characterize traditional production systems. The project will fill a programmatic gap and bridge the landscape-PA divide, thereby build upon and optimising other investments by GEF in the country, namely the GEF/UNDP project ‘Catalyzing the implementation of Uruguay's National Protected Area System' and the GEF/IBRD project ‘Rural Development and Biodiversity Management. It will take advantage of the opportunity presented by the country's new policies on spatial land use planning to harmonize, at central and site levels, policies related to environmental protection, so as to incorporate the landscape approach to management, strengthening the effectiveness of PAs as nuclei for the conservation of globally important species and ecosystems.

Objectives

The Uruguayan Protected Areas System incorporates a landscape approach to management, strengthening the effectiveness of PAs as nuclei for the conservation of globally important species and ecosystems.

USD $3,341,000

Grant amount

USD $7,446,475

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,341,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Uruguay

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Strengthening the effectiveness of the National Protected Area System by including a landscape approach to management.