Project

Sustainable Development of the Ecuadorian Amazon: integrated management of multiple use landscapes and high value conservation forests

Lead country

Ecuador

Participating countries

Ecuador

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From May 24, 2017 to May 23, 2023

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  2. 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management
  3. 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction

Project ID: 5606

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Mainstreaming biodiversity
  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Ecosystem-based mitigation
  • Wildlife conservation
  • Biodiversity financing

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas
  • Forests
  • Human altered areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Forestry and other land use
  • Tourism

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Policy advice

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Management operation
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional framework
  • Adaptive governance
  • Mainstream
  • Green economy
  • Knowledge/Data management
  • Sustainable land management
  • Community capacity building
  • FACS strategies for sustainable supply chain (TP 4)
  • Sustainable agriculture practices and use of resources (TP 2, 7, 8, 9)

Social inclusion

  • Private sector
  • Local community/CSOs
  • Indigenous peoples

Gender equality

  • Women decision making
  • Gender-responsive policies

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway
  • People pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience
  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  • 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management
  • 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

  • Financial intermediaries and market facilitators
  • Large corporations
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Nature-based solution
  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy

About this project

Description

Ecuador has an extraordinary biological richness that makes it one of the 17 megadiverse countries in the world. It`s Amazon or Special Amazonian Territorial Circumscription (CTEA from its Spanish initials) represents 116,588 km2 and is the intervention area of the project. Ecuador has undertaken significant institutional changes in recent years, from a new political constitution including the rights of nature to decentralization development and land-use planning. This provides an opportunity to manage the CTEA through an effective decentralized system. The government proposes a change in the country´s production matrix that involves simultaneous and progressive changes of the current production models moving towards a diversified economy guided by knowledge and innovation. With this background, the objective of the proposed project is to catalyze the transformation of land use planning and management in the CTEA by building a governance and sustainable production framework based on a landscape approach and optimizing ecosystem services and livelihoods. It has been structured into four outcomes:1) Strengthened multi-level governance framework for sustainable management and production in multiple use landscapes (MUL) and high value conservation forests (HVCF) in the CTEA;2) Access to markets, credit and incentives for sustainable production of the main products in multiple use and high conservation value landscapes of the CTEA;3) Landscape level implementation of sustainable practices in commercial production and livelihoods systems, aligned with the conservation and restoration of HVCF; 4) Dissemination of lessons learned, monitoring & evaluation.To achieve the stated objective, the project will develop an enabling framework for an integrated approach to sustainable management and production in MULs of the CTEA. This will be done through mainstreaming of the landscape approach at different government levels; capacity building for multi-level coordination; mainstreaming of the landscape approach and environmental sustainability criteria in land use planning and development; strengthening local enforcement of regulations; and knowledge management to support sustainable production and landscape management. This will create the conditions for undertaking interventions at landscape level and promoting replication, ensuring that the future expansion of production does not compromise biodiversity and ecosystem function and contributes to the establishment of deforestation free supply chains.

Objectives

Catalyze the transformation of land use planning and management in the Ecuadorian Amazon (CTEA) by building a governance and sustainable production framework based on a landscape approach and optimizing ecosystem services and livelihoods.

USD $12,660,550

Grant amount

USD $49,338,351

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($12,660,550)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Ecuador

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