National Planning for an Inclusive and Effective Conservation Approach to Reaching Global Biodiversity Framework Target 3 Support country planning to inclusively and effectively meet or exceed GBF Target 3. Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency. Overall, the project will encourage national-level action towards achieving or exceeding GBF Target 3 in ways that are inclusive and effective. This will lead to a number of direct and indirect benefits. An important part of contributing to Target 3 involves engaging a range of rights holders and stakeholders, particularly Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs). Many IPLC groups have been managing their areas and their biodiversity for generations, but are now facing outside threats to their livelihoods, wellbeing and cultures. Work towards Target 3 includes supporting them to gain stronger rights and tenure for their areas, building their capacity to withstand outside threats and govern their areas effectively, and ensure they gain benefits from their areas. This project will promote approaches that are respectful, just, equitable and inclusive, are led by rights holders and stakeholders, and match their aspirations for their areas.In addition, Target 3 emphasizes nature’s services to people as well as biodiversity. This project will promote a strong focus on ecosystem services in the global guidance and the five country planning processes. In the past, protected area planning often prioritized biodiversity over people’s needs from nature; the project team will work to promote conservation of provisioning, regulating and cultural services at multiple scales, on a coequal basis with biodiversity. This is likely to include areas that have lower value for species conservation, and areas that are less remote than protected areas tend to be. Throughout this process WWF will respect local rights-holders’ and stakeholders’ needs and aspirations. The approach also takes into account likely future conditions as well as current ones, helping build climate resilience of people and nature.Therefore, this project sets the stage for equitable, just and inclusive processes that deliver positive benefits to people’s wellbeing at local and national levels, while enhancing conservation of biodiversity and nature’s services to people from local to global levels.The project will generate benefits in terms of increased access to information and participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in the decision-making process. The project acknowledges the important role played by those communities in stewarding nature and the need to develop specific policies for the development of sustainable economic activities. As a result of the project and the information generated, countries will be able to allocate their resources more effectively toward activities and policies identified as priorities to the implementation of Target 3, as well as to the establishment of adaptation measures for climate change, for example.Additionally, the project will generate socioeconomic benefits by developing a roadmap that will lead to the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and more sustainable development. The roadmap will help support local economies, while also reducing the risks of climate change, providing numerous ecosystem services, and benefiting human health. Depending on the country, the project might also contribute to making the case for protection of areas of particular importance for biodiversity and its contributions to people. All in all, project will better inform countries’ actions towards achieving or exceeding GBF Target 3, including by identifying data needs, providing a sense of the costs, elaborating benefits of PAs/OECMs, and the enabling conditions to Target 3. Based on this information, the national plans will outline actions and a “how to” guide to governments that will focus either on policy formulation or on the identification of technical studies that should be further prioritized to close the existing gaps and support achieving Target 3. The resulting investment in conservation areas and sustainable activities have the capacity to generate socioeconomic benefits at the local (e.g., income and employment), national (e.g., food and water security), and global level (e.g., climate change adaptation and mitigation).