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SRJS_ToC_GH Sustainable management of the Mono and Weto land The Mole and Weto landscapes in Ghana are located in two distinct ecological zones within the Volta Basin: the Mole landscape in the northern savannah zone and the predominantly mountainous forest Weto landscape that is further downstream, alongside Lake Volta. Both landscapes are characterized by high biodiversity values that are coming under increasing threat from unsustainable land uses. The Volta Basin contributes significantly to Ghana’s economic development, especially through the provision of vital water resources. However, population growth coupled with the push for economic growth, unsustainable agricultural expansion and a high rate of urbanization has led to increased competition over land and water resources. This has resulted in an alarming rate of deforestation, which affects biodiversity, the provision of water, food security and climate resilience. Local communities are most affected by these negative impacts, as they suffer from low agricultural yields due to changing climate and reduced soil fertility. Activities such as legal and illegal mining, quarrying and the development of infrastructure along the main water bodies in the Basin are affecting water quality and its natural flow. Although there are currently no huge infrastructure developments or companies that are impacting the landscapes, except hydropower dams, there have been discussions related to oil drilling in the Volta Basin. The landscape also has some gold deposits. Extractive industries and related infrastructure development could potentially have a severe impact on the ecosystems in the landscape.
SRJS_ToC_TZ Sustainable and inclusive management of the Rukw The Rukwa-Katavi landscape is home to over 1.5 million people and is an area rich in wildlife and biodiversity, containing Miombo woodlands, the Katavi National Park, Lake Rukwa and part of Lake Tanganyika. This area has experienced rapid changes over the last few years due to large investment schemes that are promoting economic and infrastructural development. Large areas of forest are being cleared for agriculture. Major roads are being built and power lines are in the planning. Coal mining is scheduled to begin in 2017 and oil exploration is underway in Lake Tanganyika. Licenses for helium extraction have been issued for Lake Rukwa. On the community level, poor or no land use planning and illegal activities have resulted in further environmental degradation of the landscape, eroding the important ecosystem services they provide. Unsustainable farming practices, such as slash and burn activities, charcoal production and illegal logging are destroying forests and important wildlife habitats. Illegal cultivation in buffer zones on river banks has led to the siltation of rivers. Irresponsible use of pesticides for agriculture and mercury for artisanal gold mining are polluting the Katuma River. This pollution, coupled with illegal fishing in the lakes, is threatening fish stocks. Over 60% of women are engaged in farming activities and thus play a vital role in food security and food sovereignty, but most lack access to and control over land and are poorly represented in decision-making organs. Together with erratic rainfall that is affecting crop yields, these unsustainable practices are threatening food and water security and local livelihoods, as well as endangering the area’s important wildlife corridors.
SRJS_ToC_MG Equitable and sustainable management of natural The north-west coast of Madagascar contains diverse ecosystems: from dense forests, lagoons and deltas with mangroves on the Ampasindava Peninsula to dry forest and thickets, bamboo shrub, mangroves, lakes and extensive alluvial plains in the Soalala landscape. These land and seascapes contain several protected areas and very diverse flora and fauna, including many endemic and threatened species. More than 80% of the local population’s livelihoods in these areas depend directly on natural resources and the important ecosystem services the landscapes provide. This includes fertile soils for agriculture, timber for firewood and construction, fish for protein and income, and fresh water for household consumption and farming. However, these landscapes are threatened by large-scale mining operations and related infrastructure development, charcoal production, commercial exploitation of timber, bush fires and slash and burn agriculture. On the Ampasindava Peninsula, the planned exploitation of valuable rare earth minerals in a forest area that is the source of three major rivers, threatens biodiversity and potentially water provisioning over a wide area. Within the Soalala landscape, opencast iron ore mining plans threaten fresh water availability, coastal fisheries and the last stronghold of the endemic and highly threatened ploughshare tortoise. Competition for land and natural resources is increasing between the conservation community, the private sector and local communities that struggle to secure tenure due to the current ineffective system to obtain land titles.
GLA - TOC - Preserved ecosystems and improved livelihood con Objectives
The GLA programme for Liberia proposes to increase the capacity of communities to resist destructive oil palm expansion and logging, increase the respect and recognition of tenure rights of local communities by government and concessionaires, and increase adherence to the full implementation of policies and laws in forest and land management. This will provide opportunity for working in Liberia to contribute to the preservation of ecosystems and improved livelihood conditions for rural communities in Liberia and specifically in the Sinoe landscape.

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Formal recognition of customary land ownership and security of tenure for the poor is a critical building block for inclusive and sustainable development. Since 2009, when Liberia enacted the Community Rights Law with Respect to Forest Lands that paved the way for communities to formalize their ownership claims to their customary forestlands, community rights with respect to natural resources have gained a prominent place on the political agenda. The move towards formalizing customary land claims gained further momentum in 2013 with the adoption of a Land Rights Policy that promised formal recognition and legal protection for customary rights. The Land Rights Act, which could‘seal the deal’for communities has however been stalled in the Liberian Legislature since 2015.
SRJS_ToC_UG Protection of the natural resources in the Murch The Albertine Rift in Western Uganda is an important biodiversity hotspot, with rich wildlife. It is a habitat for 39% of Africa’s mammal species, 51% of Africa’s bird species, 19% of Africa’s amphibian species, 14% of Africa’s plant and reptile species plus 79 endangered terrestrial vertebrates. It also contains around 70% of Uganda’s major protected areas. The Queen Elizabeth and Murchison landscapes have both important aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems such as lake Albert, lake Edward and lake George, savannahs and grasslands, and the Budongo and Bugoma forests. The areas provide crucial ecosystem services, such as food, water and climate resilience, to not only several hundred thousand people in the communities in and around these landscapes, but also downstream water users in Uganda and beyond. A key threat to the ecosystems and the services they provide is the emerging oil and gas sector and its related infrastructure. Backed by foreign investors, oil corporations are expanding their activities, forcing communities off their lands. To access water and provide for their livelihoods, the often poorly compensated displaced communities are forced into new areas including the fringes of protected areas, exerting pressure on them. Poor compliance to environmental regulations by the oil and gas sector is making the area vulnerable to environmental destruction, with potentially far-reaching consequences. An oil spill in the Murchison Park will not only affect hundreds of thousands of fisher folks in Uganda, but also people downstream of the river Nile, reaching as far as the Mediterranean Sea. Uganda is also losing an estimated 200,000 hectares of forests and woodlands annually, mainly due to clearance for plantation agriculture for sugarcane, maize and tobacco, but also due to small-scale subsistence farming and limestone extraction. This deforestation has severe consequences for nature and the people that depend on the services, affecting water quantity and quality and compromising food security due to lower crop yields and fish-stocks. It also makes the country more susceptible to the effects of climate change.
GLA-ToC-Integrated management of forested landscapes in the The overall objective of the program is to contribute to the integrated, sustainable and inclusive management of forests, in particular in the Gran Chiquitanía region. This would be possible if technological innovations are applied, management and coordination is improved and legislation is harmonized and implemented. In the first place, local private sector will need to adopt technological innovations for sustainable and integrated forest management. At the same time, national government and municipalities need to comply with the new law on the restitution of forests and other newly developed legislations derived from the new constitution. This law regulates the food production and requires deforestation to be compensated. Partners start from the premise that informed consumers demand products from sustainable forest and land management. Therefore, partners will communicate to consumers on the contribution of agro-ecology, certified products and environmental functions of the forests to safety and food sovereignty. At the same time the concept of“Sistemas de vida”needs to be improved. This concept is a holistic vision of the territory and nature in line with Bolivian own definition of nature and Mother Earth. For this relevant stakeholders will be organizationally strengthened through access to reliable information and coordination with other actors. Finally, the Gran Chiquitanía can conserve their valuable ecosystems and at the same time provide the Bolivian people with income, health and welfare, if legislation is effectively implemented and harmonized. Civil society will advocate for compliance of existing legislation among national legislative and judicial authorities and local authorities, the urban population and indigenous communities. They will also contribute to international networks and regional processes.

Partners in the program focus on forests in the Chiquitanía region, located in eastern Bolivia, a transition area between the Amazone and the Chaco. The forested area here is influenced by different local, national and international factors. Agro-industrial production of soy and sorghum, as well as livestock production represent the main drivers of deforestation in the region. Mining, although very concentrated, represents another pressure, as it transforms the landscape completely. The Bolivian State has a predominantly agricultural vision of development, as expressed in the proposed land use and agricultural plans for the coming years. Indigenous communities have an important role to play in the management of the remaining forest in the region, as 80% of forests in Bolivia, amongst others in the Chiquitanía region, is managed by indigenous groups. The role of autonomous municipal governments in the formulation of local public policies is still weak, although they have the authority to do so. Key actors in the program are therefore actors that manage or use natural resources directly and the authorities responsible for the regulation of their use.
[SRJS] Programma IUCN Beschikking & Partnerschapovereenkomst The long-term goal of this program is to secure the ecosystem-based IPGs water provisioning, food security, and climate resilience for improved livelihoods. This involves multi-stakeholder governance of landscapes, including strong CSOs that represent the interests of vulnerable groups, women, and nature. To ensure that this type of land governance leads to sustainable land use, the program seeks to achieve various outcomes on inclusive and green business and government practices and policies. The joint strategic program objective is: effective CSO lobby&advocacy for business and government policies and practices that enable inclusive green development in selected landscapes and optimize ecological, social, and economic values. IUCN NL and WWF NL will help partner CSOs establish partnerships that lobby for and set up land governance based on a landscape-wide approach in which all stakeholders have a say. To ensure that CSOs can collaborate on an equal footing with the private (business) and public (government) sectors we will strengthen CSO capacities to engage and monitor all relevant stakeholders. In our approach we will aim to strengthen the enabling environment and the inclusiveness of decision-making for vulnerable groups and women. Finally, we provide a vision on the continuity and exit strategy of our interventions and discuss our main assumptions and risk-mitigation strategy.

The Shared Resources, Joint Solutions program focuses on safeguarding the ecosystem-based International Public Goods (IPGs) water provisioning, food security, and climate resilience in landscapes in 16 low- and lower-middle-income countries. As these IPGs are generated by ecosystems in identifiable landscapes, the program will take a landscape-based approach.
MoMo 4 Climate - IUCN NL (Mole, Ghana) Mobilising More 4 Climate (MoMo4C) is a five-year program that aims to bring together entrepreneurs, firms, policymakers, investors and civil society organisations to make green business propositions that tackle the impacts and causes of climate change at a landscape level in developing countries, and to attract investments to implement these initiatives.
SRJS_ToC_BE Sustainable management of the Mono and Oueme riv The Ouéméand Mono Delta landscapes in southern Benin are coastal areas. Both landscapes are a mosaic of lakes, mangroves, floodplains, gallery forests, savannahs and beaches. Rich in wildlife and home to rare and often endangered species, the landscapes provide important ecosystem services to millions of people, such as drinking water, energy, transport, water retention during flooding, and agricultural lands and fishing grounds for food. These ecosystem services are coming increasingly under pressure from rapid human population growth, fueled by increasing migration to the coastal areas and the rapid expansion of urban areas. Large-scale economic development is rife, with the expansion of industries that depend directly on natural resources such as water and encroach on natural habitats with their plants and related infrastructure. Increased energy demand has also led to infrastructural developments, such as the construction of a new dam in the Mono and plans for dams on the Ouémériver. At the community level, unsustainable practices are further threatening the area. Slash and burn agriculture has destroyed forests, resulting in soil erosion that is compromising water supplies. Waterways are polluted by runoff from chemical fertilizers and pesticides used in agriculture. Fish stocks are dwindling due to overfishing.
GLA II - IUCN NL - Uganda The GLA programme in Uganda has three long-term objectives i) Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities sustainably govern forest landscapes; ii) the Government of Uganda and the private sector (in extractives, agro-commodities and energy) no longer drive deforestation and degradation, protect forests and human rights and implement the NDC Work Plan to address climate change; and iii) secure civic spaces for environment and human rights defenders to secure civic space for civil society and IPLC leaders to speak out for their rights, livelihoods and the forest.
 
To achieve this, the partners will among other conduct evidence-based advocacy and lobbying that includes developing research and information generation. Use the knowledge to create and use informed social movements to reach out to duty bearers and public.
MoMo 4 Climate - IUCN NL (International/NL) Mobilising More 4 Climate (MoMo4C) is a five-year program that aims to bring together entrepreneurs, firms, policymakers, investors and civil society organisations to make green business propositions that tackle the impacts and causes of climate change at a landscape level in developing countries, and to attract investments to implement these initiatives.
SRJS_ToC_PH_Palawan Partnerships for biodiversity, climate r Palawan’s forests and rich freshwater and marine resources are of key importance in its local economy that is heavily dependent on agriculture and fisheries, and the emerging and expanding tourism sector. Southern Palawan is typically projected as the agro-industrial zone of the Province in contrast to Northern Palawan, which has ecotourism as its priority. The island faces rapid changes in land-use and cover that result from pressure from the demands of the growing population, but also because of the rising investments from the private sector, notably on oil palm cultivation and mineral extraction. Large-scale mining projects, agri-plantations and energy development largely overlap with core- and restricted use zones, destroying key watersheds and natural forests and causing water stress and pollution that is also affecting the downstream coastal areas. While certain areas of the landscape have been established as protected areas under existing laws as those in Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (MMPL) and Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), much is needed to protect and sustainably manage other, equally important areas like the Victoria Anepahan and Bulanjao Ranges to ensure that the key International Public Goods (IPGs) in Southern Palawan–water, food security, biodiversity, and the need for building resiliency against climate change impacts will be secured.
SRJS_ToC_MM Community based land management in the Taninthar Tanintharyi Region in the far south of Myanmar is among the least populous and least densely populated regions in Myanmar. Forested landscapes cover 86% of Tanintharyi Region, with more than half of the area containing intact forests with high conservation value. Its unique vegetation features special species, such as the endangered Gurney’s pitta, as well as threatened large mammals including tigers, elephants, tapir and Malayan sun bears. The biggest threats to ecosystems in the selected area are agricultural expansion (particularly palm oil and rubber), mining (tin, tungsten, coal and gold extraction), infrastructure development (the Dawei Special Economic Zone, hydropower and coal-fired power plants) and legal and illegal logging of trees and mangroves by companies and communities that lack alternative livelihood options. Key underlying issues are weak land laws and policies, a decade long conflict situation that has resulted in unclear administrative boundaries and procedures and many returning refugees and internally displaced persons, as well as poverty. Tanintharyi is seeing dramatic dispossession, land conflicts and pollution as a result of agribusiness and mining. Many concessions in Tanintharyi have led to conflict because communities have never had their land officially registered, despite it being owned and managed for many generations. Mining-related water pollution and water shortages negatively impact crop yields and livelihoods. The anticipated return of refugees and related land claims are likely to cause further challenges. Myanmar has been identified as the second most vulnerable country to climate change in the world. Safeguarding and enhancing Myanmar’s natural capital can play an important role in building resilience to climate change. One example is mangroves, which not only play an important function as a birthplace and breeding ground for brackish and salt water flora and fauna, but also in protecting coasts from fierce storms related to changing weather patterns. While still largely intact in Tanintharyi, these mangroves are now increasingly under pressure, as communities and companies are cutting them down for fuel and charcoal production.
Strengthening of Multisector and Decentralised Environmental Management and Coordination to Achieve the Objectives of the Rio Conventions in the Union of Comoros NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
National child project under the GEF Africa Mini-grids Program Comoros Supporting access to clean energy by increasing the financial viability, and promoting scaled-up commercial investment, in renewable minigrids in Comoros with a focus on cost-reduction levers and innovative business models Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency. Socioeconomic benefits of the project are considerable as it encompasses a large part of the population by focusing on households, private sector business and cooperatives as well as public services including schools and health centers/hospitals in rural areas.   The successful implementation of the project will:  · Ensure access to an available, reliable, affordable and greener energy in the 3 pilot sites and further  · Potentially improve the stability of the grid as less pressure will be exerted on it through the implementation of minigrids in the medium and long run  · Secure existing incomes and provide additional incomes to MSMEs and cooperatives  · Empower women and youth by building their capacity and promoting entrepreneurial activities including as rural electrician, money collector, etc. directly related to the minigrid and adding income generating opportunities through access to energy such as food conservation, processing and selling; handicraft, services and trade; etc.  · Increase greated awareness on climate change and environment protection, minigrids, gender mainstreaming   · Grant access to better public services especially schools and health centers/hospitals  · Facilitate access to telecom and Internet services  · Improve livelihoods of vulnerable populations in particular e.g. women, youth, people with disabilities    The socioeconomic benefits of the project are not only measurable at the local and national levels but also at the regional and global level. At regional level, through the regional AMP umbrella socio-economic benefits, lessons learnt and best practices will be shared upon national projects. In addition, knowledge and experience sharing will be taking place within the Indian Ocean area, between SIDS and various partners (IRENA, RMI, etc.). Finally at global level, environmental benefits generated by this project will support the efforts in reducing GHG emissions and thus improving livelihoods.
Development of a National Network of Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas Representative of the Comoros Unique Natural Heritage and Co-managed with Local Village Communities NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
LDC/SIDS Portfolio Project: Sustainable Land Management in Comoros NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Conservation of Biodiversity and Sustainable Development in the Federal Islamic Republic of Comoros NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
SIP: Integrated Ecological Planning and Sustainable Land Management in Coastal Ecosystems in the Comoros in the Three Island of (Grand Comore, Anjouan, and Moheli) NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Sustainable Development of Comoros Islands by Promoting the Geothermal Energy Resources NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
U.S. Department of Defense, Institutional Capacity Building Programs: Asia Pacific Center for Strategic Studies Comprehensive Maritime Security Course (CMSC19-1). Republic of Marshall Islands Ports Authority