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Observations from the GEF Observations from the GEF biodiversity portfoliobiodiversity portfolio

Claudio VolonteClaudio VolonteGEF SecretariatGEF Secretariat

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GEF biodiversity portfolioGEF biodiversity portfolio

• US$1.3 billion to 446 projects in 123 countries (as of June 2001)

• Funding through ecosystem based OPs

• Support for Global 200 ecoregions, World Heritage Sites, Ramsar sites, migratory waterbirds, biosphere reserves

• Support for demonstration projects linked to alternative livelihoods for local and indigenous communities.

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Findings and recommendations on sustainability:

• Much more needs to be done to secure sustainability of project gains and activities

• Funding patterns during the project must be compatible with the economic realities of the host institution/country: cost effectiveness.

• For most governments to have the political will to conserve biodiversity, its conservation must be seen as contributing to economic growth and security.

• Only activities that have a realistic chance of tackling immediate and proximate underlying causes should be considered.

• Conservation initiatives should be linked to commercial interests

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Financial Arrangements:Financial Arrangements:lessons from GEF experienceslessons from GEF experiences

• Means but not ends• Linkage to biodiversity conservation and

sustainable use• Operational schemes (not “concepts”)• Dynamic, flexible and responsive• Include monitoring• Financial arrangements vs. economic

arrangements• Market vs. non-market• Should meet recurring cost of project outcomes

and should have benefits on the ground

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• Direct funding to grants, trust funds, concessional funding (barrier removal), loans (with IFC/private sector) or

• Funding to support projects and programs for development of financial arrangements

GEF funding andGEF funding andfinancial arrangementsfinancial arrangements

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FA Country TitleTotal cost

Burkina Faso Natural ecosystem management 43.50Lesotho, South Africa Maloti/Drakensberf Conservation and Development 33.20Mexico Mesoamerica biological corridor 93.31Sri Lanka Conservation of globally threatened species in rainforest/SW Sri Lanka 0.75Tanzania Jozani Chw aka Bay National Park 0.75Uzbekistan Establishment of the Nuratau-Kyzylkum biosphere reserve 0.75Brazil Amazon Region Protected Areas Program 89.35Chile Valdivian Forest Zone 0.75Colombia Conservation of Biodiversity in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria 9.38Costa Rica Conservation of biodiversity in Talamanca-Caribbean biological corridor 0.75Egypt Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants in arid and semi-arid 9.05Guatemal Management and protection of Laguna del Tigre National Park 0.75Mexico indigenous and community biodiversity conservation (COINBIO) 18.70Nepal Upper Mustang biodiversity conservation 0.75Nepal Landscape-scale conservation endangered tiger and rhinoceros Chitw an 0.75Philippines Samar Island biodiversity project 6.11Philippines Sustainable management of Mount Isarog 0.75Russia Sustainable conservation in 4 protected areas in Russia Kamchatka's Oblast 5.13Colombia Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the Andes Region 30.35Costa Rica Biodiversity conservation in Cacao Agroforestry 3.04Korea DPR Conservation of biodiversity in Mount Myohyang 0.75Nepal Arun Valley sustainable resource use 0.63Algeria Biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resources management 2.02Ecuador Control of invasive species in the Galapagos Archipelago 41.92Morocco Transhumans for biodiversity conservation in Southern High Atlas 4.37Kenya Lake Baringo community-based integrated land and w ater management 0.75Belize Community-managed Sarstoon Temash 0.81

Micro-credits Chile Conservation and sustainable use of Chiloe globally signif icant biodiversity 4.25Environmental Services

Costa Rica Ecomarkets 8.33

User Fees

S&M enterprises

Ecoturism

Funds (trust, seeds, community, private equity, TA)

Sustainable harvesting

Examples of recently approved projects (FY00/01)

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DatabaseDatabase CaseStudiesCase

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Assessment,Guidance,

Lessons Learned

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Lessons Learned