Current Projects

To Build and Strengthen Institutional Capacities for LMO Detection in Support of National Decision Making Processes in Biosafety Regulatory Systems in the Southern Africa Region

Madagascars network of new PAs is effectively managed to provide enhanced protection and better representation of key ecosystems for economic and environmental benefit

To Ensure Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable use and Improved Management of Bakassi Ecosystems Through Integrated Ecosystem Management Plans Including Ecosystem Valuation

To restore the ecological balance of the Adriatic Sea through implementation of the Ecosystem Approach and improve sub-regional management capacity through Marine Spatial Planning

Ensure biodiversity conservation and management effectiveness through the creation of a protected area complex and the implementation of a communities and private sector participation model.

Create and strengthen conservation caucuses of Members in national congresses of Colombia, Mexico, and Peru to build political will for enhanced management of natural resources for development and conservation.

To strengthen and expand the PA network of, and mainstream biodiversity conservation in, the Bakossi Banyang Mbo landscape

To mainstream the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity for resilient agriculture and sustainable production to improve livelihoods and access and benefit sharing

The development objective is to promote the adoption and adaption of sustainable land and forest ecosystem management (SLEM) practices across the productive landscape of Kakamega-Nandi ecosystem

To support the expansion of the Protected Areas (PA) system in Bosnia and &Herzegovina and build capacities for effective management of biodiversity (SEPAS/BCEMB Bosnia & Herzegovina)

To provide support to eligible parties for GEF funding in order to sustain and build capacity foreffective participation in the BCH in line with COP/MOP Decisions, specifically BS VI/5 para 2f.

To effectively and sustainably use biodiversity and maintain ecosystem goods and services in Palau by building institutional capacity to integrate the Palau Protected Area Network (PAN) with the Sustainable Land Management (SLM) initiative, and fostering a ridge-to-reef approach across and within these initiatives

To implement the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit sharing through a coordinated and coherent strategy that incorporates awareness raising and capacity development

To support ratification of the Nagoya Protocol and implementation of key measures to make the Protocol operational in Pacific Island countries.

To ensure biodiversity is taken into account in decision making across government sectors by improving end-users’ access to and use of biodiversity information and embedding biodiversity information within national development decision making processes.

To enable countries to revise their NBSAPs and to develop their Fifth National Reports to the CBD

To support the expansion of national protected areas system and enabling capacity conditions for effective management and mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation into production landscape

to contribute to the preservation of Caribbean ecosystems that are of global significance and the sustainability of livelihoods through the application of existing proven technologies and approaches that are appropriate for small island developing states through improved fresh and coastal water resources management, sustainable land management and sustainable forest management that also seek to enhance resilience of socio-ecological systems to the impacts of climate change.

To foster biodiversity conservation on livestock farms, through a return to human shepherding and the development of a wildlife-friendly produce branding scheme, leading to Payment for Ecosystem Services as a tool in conservation and local economic development.

To Consolidate Public Private Initiatives to Conserve Globally Significant Biodiversity and Multiple Ecosystem Services in the Mountain Areas of Chile’s Mediterranean Ecosystem in the Metropolitan and Valparaiso Regions

To enhance Cambodias PAS management effectiveness and secure forest carbon through improving inter-sectoral collaboration, landscape connectivity and sustainable forest management

Increasing resilience to climate change risks and decreasing disaster risk using an ecosystem management approach targeting protected areas and fragile ecosystems in the Southwestern Peninsula of Haiti

To assist Mauritania to update the status and capacity for the safe use of biotechnology and to strengthen Mauritania institutional capacity in the development and implementation of the National Biosafety Framework

To create and apply the enabling conditions for fair and equitable access and effective benefit sharing

Project Objective: Strengthen governmental and non-governmental capacities sustainably to manage and protect the Socotra Archipelago WHS through BD conservation, IAS management and SLM