| Country: St Vincent and the Grenadines |
Implementing Partner: Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Transformation, Forestry, Fisheries, Industry and Labour |
Management Arrangements : Support to National Implementation Modality (NIM) |
| This project will contribute to the following country outcome included in the UNDAF/Country Programme Document (United Nations Multi-Country Sustainable Development Framework in the Caribbean): Inclusive and sustainable solutions adopted for the conservation, restoration, and use of ecosystems and natural resources. |
| UNDP Strategic Plan Output: 2.4.1 Gender responsive legal and regulatory frameworks, policies and institutions strengthened, and solutions adopted, to address conservation, sustainable use and equitable benefit sharing of natural resources, in line with international conventions and national legislation |
| UNDP Social and Environmental Screening Category: Moderate |
UNDP Gender Marker: 2 |
| Atlas Project ID (formerly Award ID): 00097455 |
Atlas Output ID (formerly Project ID): 00101171 |
| UNDP-GEF PIMS ID number: 5862 |
GEF ID number: 9580 |
| Planned start date: July 1, 2019 (indicative) |
Planned end date: August 30, 2023 (indicative) |
| PAC meeting date: September 14, 2018 |
| Brief project description: The main objective of the project Conserving biodiversity and reducing land degradation using a Ridge-to-Reef approach with financing from the Global Environment Facility with support from UNDP is to enhance biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services conservation through an expanded and strengthened PA system and with SLM measures integrated in a ridge to reef approach. The Project objective will be achieved by using a multi-focal strategy that includes the development of a national enabling environment (i.e. policy/legal framework, availability and access to information, capacities, technologies, and finance mechanisms) for delivering multiple global environmental benefits in four interrelated outcomes: 1) Strengthened institutional framework for protected areas, biodiversity conservation and SLM/CSA; 2) Effective management of new and existing Pas; 3) Integrated watershed management measures in R2R setting incorporating sustainable livelihood opportunities and; 4) Knowledge management for SLM, CSA and biodiversity conservation. The GEF investment will address the drivers of biodiversity loss (habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation due primarily to unsustainable land use practices and human encroachment, threats that are further compounded by the impacts of climate change and IAS) that will reduce biodiversity loss and land degradation both within PAs and within the mixed-use landscape. The project will deliver global environmental benefits using a participatory approach and ensuring the equal distribution of benefits among men and women, with 346 benefiting from the Project, and resulting in the consolidation and strengthened protection of a 13,214 ha terrestrial PA covering the entire upper watersheds of St Vincent and 7 KBAs, providing landscape connectivity to a 2183 ha marine park through a ridge to reef approach and improving protection of at minimum 63 ha of the sole remaining habitat of a CR single island endemic. |
| Financing Plan (only cash transferred to UNDP bank account and budgeted under the same GEF project should be included under this section (1), all others should be included under section (2). |
| GEF Trust Fund |
USD 3,757,102 |
| (1) Total Budget administered by UNDP |
USD 3,757,102 |
| Parallel co-financing (all other co-financing that is not cash co-financing administered by UNDP) |
| Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning, Sustainable Development and Information Technology |
USD 7,800,000 |
| Ministry of Agriculture, Foresty, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour |
USD 4,047,860 |
| Basic Needs Trust Fund Programme |
USD 225,478 |
| SVG Preservation Fund |
USD 65,037 |
| (2) Total co-financing |
USD 12,138,375 |
| (3) Grand-Total Project Financing (1)+(2) |
USD 15,895,477 |
