PÃ¡ramos for Life To conserve pÃ¡ramo ecosystems through the promotion of sustainable systems for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem and agro-biodiversity services, and socio-environmental conflict management within pÃ¡ramo complexes Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency. Normal 0         false false false  EN-US JA X-NONE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-priority:99;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}    1. The socioeconomic benefits to be delivered by the project are multiple. Benefits include enhancing the capacity of staff from public institutions (e.g., MADS, CARs, and NNP) to effectively manage páramo complexes and PAs, and to facilitate the transition to production activities that are compatible with the páramo conservation objectives. At the local level, municipalities, PA managers, and subsistence producers (including women), and indigenous people will also benefit from training and other related activities. Capacity development is part of the project’s strategy to strengthen environmental governance, which will empower the inhabitants of the páramos in decision-making and the management of the ecosystems on which they depend. At the local level, community and indigenous peoples organizations will be beneficiaries of LVGs that will allow them to directly invest in community monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem services, development of management plans for páramo complexes and the environmental component of Life Plans in the case of indigenous peoples, the restoration of prioritized areas, the implementation initiatives to promote biodiversity and agro-biodiversity products and nature tourism, and the strengthening of productive value chains, among other activities. Local communities will also benefit from a strategy for agriculture and cattle ranching production conversion and substitution and/or mining activity substitution by promoting green ventures and business. The project will facilitate the commercialization and access to markets for sustainable products, including biodiversity and agro-biodiversity products and nature tourism, derived from the prioritized páramo landscapes and will establish partnerships with key institutions to provide the needed support through a rural agro-environmental extension program to implement biodiversity-friendly production systems. A total of 838 vulnerable families (lower income, female heads of households, and those impacted by COVID-19) will benefit from conversion and/or substitution actions for biodiversity-friendly production, and miners from 5 mines will benefit from substitution activities. In total, the project will directly benefit 265,816 people (50% women; 50% men).  2. Other project benefits include improved water supply for small farmers and other stakeholders through the implementation of PES schemes or other compensation schemes; benefits could be monetary or non-monetary. Through knowledge management activities and products, the project will benefit multiple stakeholders in the CARs and at the local levels by increasing awareness about PA management, mainstreaming biodiversity in production landscapes, and gender aspects, among other topics; this will serve as a mechanism for replication and scaling-up of successful experiences in other páramo complexes in the country. The project will also contribute through conservation and restoration action in the páramo complexes to the stable supply of clean water for major cities in central and southern Colombia, including the capital city of Bogotá with over 7 million people.