Lead country
Brazil
Participating countries
Brazil
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From June 8, 2015 to June 8, 2021
Project ID: 3066
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Ecosystem management and restoration
Sub-area(s)
- Ecosystem-based mitigation
Landscape(s)
- Deserts
Sub-landscape(s)
- Semi-arid (cold winter) deserts
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Innovative approaches
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Governance
- Law regulation
- Management operation
Sub-strategy
- Institutional framework
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
- Sustainable land management
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Women
- Smallholder farmers
Gender equality
- Women's access to and control over resources
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 15.3 Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
- 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
Hot topic
N/A
About this project
Description
This project will address land degradation (LD) in the state of the Sergipe in the Brazilian Northeast with a view to scaling up to the entire Semiarid region. It is designed to optimize and coordinate existing programs to engender sustainable land management (SLM), reverting land degradation in a state where 74.2% is susceptible to desertification (ASD) and only 13% the original Caatinga vegetation remains. It will strengthen the state environmental governance framework to better address the main drivers of land degradation and desertification, focusing primarily on the escalating conflict of land uses and unsustainable agriculture practices where LD is causing soil erosion, soil nutrient depletion, damaging hydrological system integrity and undermining ecosystem services. Key elements that will be strengthened include land use planning and appropriate environmental licensing and oversight to avoid, reduce and mitigate LD. Through strengthened institutional and smallholder capacities and facilitation of access to funding, uptake of SLM practices will be increased and on-the-ground actions will be tried and tested in the Alto Sertao Sergipe (SAS), where LD is highest. This territory is a state priority and is targeted nationally in a program to reduce hunger and poverty. By reducing LD and maintaining vital ecosystem services, the project will improve livelihoods in an area with high poverty and social hardship, particularly in agrarian reform settlements. Strategic action at the national level through the Department to Combat Desertification in the Ministry of Environment's Secretariat of Extraction and Sustainable Rural Development and the National Commission for Combating Desertification will enable this state's SLM governance model to be disseminated to other states, thereby facilitating replication across the entire Brazilian Semiarid region and evoking further global environmental benefits the middle and long term.
Objectives
Strengthening SLM governance frameworks to combat land degradation processes in Sergipe ASD in NE Brazil.
USD $3,900,078
Grant amount
USD $17,373,016
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,900,078)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Brazil
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