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COUNTERPART FUNDING SECURED
Domestic funding secured
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International funding secured
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European Commission: Support to the implementation of the Amazon Ecosystem-
based Conservation Vision to the benefit of local communities and the preservation of ecosystem services in
the Amazon region
6.725.370 (to be officially approved) Overall goal: by 2020, protected area systems in the Amazon
Biome are increasing ecosystem resilience to the effects of climate change and maintaining
the provision of environmental goods and services benefiting biodiversity, local communities
and economies. This Project is the result of the Action Plans developed by each of the Amazonian Countries and seeks for their implementation in a medium term basis, towards the achievement of the CBD Aichi Targets at a regional level. Main project components:
(1) conservation opportunities; (2) the integration of the vision of indigenous and local communities; (3) effective management of PAs; and (4) sustainable financing strategies for PAs.
International Climate Initiative (BMU Germany): Building resilience for the Amazon Biome, protected areas as an integrated part of climate change adaptation
2.586.680 (in evaluation at the BMU)
Overall goal: By the end of 2015, protected areas systems (PA systems) form an integral part of climate change strategies for the Amazon biome and are recognized for the provision of ecosystem services and contributions to greater adaptive capacity to climate change for local communities, based on the findings and dissemination of regional-scale analyses and application in a pilot priority conservation landscape.
Main project objectives:
(1)Establishment of a portfolio of regionally relevant opportunities for conservation areas recognized by PA Focal Points in the Amazon Biome; (2) Protection of key areas and ecosystem services (water, carbon and biodiversity) in the priority conservation landscape (Eastern Cordillera Real of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru); (3) Recognition of the Amazon Conservation Vision at international levels as a comprehensive framework that gives due consideration to PA systems as an effective means for climate change adaptation.
ADDITIONAL FUNDING NEEDED
USD $8.184.684,1
$17.496.734,10
Same as total in section III
SECTION V: LINKS TO THE CBD PROGRAMME OF WORK ON PROTECTED AREAS The following section is to be filled in only if the project is aligned with the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas. Please attach supporting documents and list them in Section VI.
FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Please indicate institutional commitments and/or sustainable financing mechanisms that will contribute to the project’s sustainability.
According to a financial sustainability preliminary study on protected areas, the Amazonian countries have evolved in their financial sustainability analysis and valuation according to a score card made by UNDP. Based on a compilation of information from the score cards for each of the Amazon Biome countries, it is estimated that the main providers for the region’s protected areas budget are the individual states that provide approximately 75% of funds, followed by international cooperation donors with 18%. Self-raised budget sources are only 10% of the total of available sources and they come mainly from the entry fees at Protected Areas (see Charter 1). This information suggests the need to diversify financial portfolios thereby guaranteeing long term funding that is not highly dependent on low-stability financial sources. Charter 3. Distribution of budget sources by financial providers The financial sources distributed among the Amazon Biome countries vary between 20% and 100% of the total of available sources for the national Protected Areas in each country (see Table 3). According to this information the total of financial sources available for the Protected Areas at the Amazon Biome for the fiscal year 2009 averaged between USD 75 milllion and USD 100 million bracket. In other words, this amount corresponded to 20% and 48% of the total of available financial resources for the Protected Areas at the Amazon Biome. Table 3. Total of available financial sources for the Protected Areas at the Amazon
Biome by countries in 2009
Country
Total available resources for Amazonian Protected Areas (USD)
Percentages of allocatedresources out of the total of Protected Areas system budget (%)
Bolivia
2.093.770
38
Brazil*
44.540.858
20
Colombia
6.049.878
30
Ecuador
1.176.143
30
French Guyana
9.820.000
100%
Peru
10.758.410
72
Source: Memories from the Regional Workshop of Sao Paulo – Brazil, February 3 – 6, 2010; Regional Environmental Direction of French Guyana (DIREN); 2010 (only National Parks and natural Reserves).
Information provided by the countries at a regional Workshop in Lima-Peru, August/2010.
*Federal sources and international cooperation; the sources from the Amazonian states are not included
Regarding the financial gap, in a first exploratory attempt run under the framework of building an ecosystem vision, it was estimated that the investments have been close to USD 200 million for the consolidation of Amazonia Protected Areas. However, there is a financial gap of USD 500 million so that all Protected Areas reach minimum levels of management effectiveness. It was also estimated that the total annual cost to cover the needs of all protected areas at the Amazon Biome, after doing the minimum investments to cover this financial gap, will be approximately USD 250 million. Nowadays the whole annual budgets of the Amazonian countries are close to 40% of this value. The financial situation of the systems of protected areas motivates to identify barriers and to implement strategies in order to succeed with some existing financial mechanisms, particularly of those based in payments for environmental services (water, tourism, carbon, etc.) and to enter into other more sustainable and innovative in order to help with the financial diversification. In this sense, it is necessary to think out sustainable strategies and conservation mechanisms, designed through participative processes, which are supported by clear policies and financial mechanisms that could assure a permanent flows. This strategy will help to increase the conservation profile and to raise more financial sources in order to fulfill the priority actions included in the Amazonian Biome PoWPA, making it even more sustainable. The current proposal will be implemented under the supervision of REDPARQUES and throughout the financial mechanisms identified by each of the involved countries, such as the protected areas funds, in order to strengthen sustainable financial strategies that contribute to Amazonian conservation. Furthermore, the funds play a fundamental role in terms of implementing the PoWPA, especially considering the approved decisions at COP10. Apart from this, the support from LifeWeb initiative is going to be of a remarkable importance to protect the process of ecosystem vision initiated at the Amazon.
PARTICIPATION AND EQUITY
Please indicate how this project will contribute to the full and effective participationof indigenous and local communities and the equitable sharing of costs and benefits with indigenous and/or local communities.
This proposal pretends to strengthen the goal 2 of the PoWPA: “To promote the equity and participation of benefits” through the implementation of the following strategic action: “To study, value and promote along with the participation of different actors, some conservation management strategies, mechanisms and tools of biological and cultural diversity and of other natural resources in order to identify alternatives that make possible the management and effective conservation of biologic, cultural and economic importance areas”. This will be developed with three activities identified as priority where capacities of institutional, indigenous communities, afrodescendents and local population at transboundary protected areas is strengthened. This is mainly done in order to protect the knowledge, traditional practices and innovation in the use and management of biodiversity and also to set mechanisms and clear process of fair distribution in the costs and benefits of local and indigenous communities at the creation and management of protected areas.
GOVERNANCE TYPES
If applicable, please explain how this project will contribute to a greater diversity of governance typesin the national protected area system.
Considering governance as a starting point and understood as an exercise where actors define the decision taking agenda, projects and impact assessment on fundamental aspects over a determined society or group of people, this project contributes to the enhancement of communities’ life. The design of governance system appropriated for the Amazon protected areas must overcome legal, cultural, political and socio-economic limits. As a matter of fact, in order to increase the empowerment and appropriation of the project’s local and indigenous communities in protected areas of the Amazon, a workshop about communitarian conservation experiences was held in April 2010 as part of the Amazon Vision construction process. The purpose of the workshop was to showcase successful experiences of conservation where there has been co-managing between indigenous peoples or local communities and government institutions, as well as other organizations in the Amazon region. Also, the workshop was the first step to promote governance types of protected areas as well as conservation actions by local and indigenous communities, and empower communities to participate in the regulation and governance of protected areas, promote community participation in the evaluation of ecosystem goods and services and prompt complementary conservation actions. In consequence, the project will provide capacity reinforcement for conservation at the local level by engaging participation of both formal organizations and traditional institutions, in a bid to increase knowledge around conservation tools and to upscale local experience to be integrated into the landscape and territory management perspective, while promoting larger recognition of the whole UICN matrix based on the benefits of shared-governance and locally-managed conservation areas, as input for major institutional and legal recommendations for national protected areas systems.
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1ARPA is the largest effort in the world on protected areas and the recent PA expansion in the Brazilian Amazon (in great part due to ARPA) is thought to be responsible for 37% of the total decrease in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 2004 and 2009. The remaining decrease being associated to economic downturn in the agriculture and ranching sectors and increased enforcement of environmental laws. It is estimated that by 2050, PAs in the Brazilian Amazon have the potential to avoid the emission of as much as 8 billion tons of carbon.
2REDPARQUES is the technical alliance of public institutions in charge of the administration and management of protected areas from the 19 Latin American countries. It was created in 1983 upon decision of countries designating the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean as technical secretariat. It is aimed to promote the exchange of experiences and mutual strengthening and to contribute towards the development of the national systems of protected areas and the conservation of biological diversity in the region.
3National-scale submissions must be endorsed in writing by the Ministry of Environment’s authority responsible for coordinating international cooperation. We also encourage all Expressions of Interest to be endorsed by national authorities for coordinating international cooperation, as appropriate.
