1. Multi-Focal Area Projects: BD, LD, and IW
Mark Zimsky
GEF Biodiversity Coordinator
Senior Biodiversity Specialist
Regional Program Manager, Latin America and the Caribbean
GEF Familiarization Seminar
Washington, DC
January 17 – 19, 2012

2. Outline Three focal areas-three results frameworks
Best practice examples

3. GEF-5 Biodiversity Strategy Objectives
improve the sustainability of protected area systems
mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into production landscapes/ seascapes and sectors
build capacity to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
build capacity on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing
integrate CBD obligations into national planning processes through enabling activities

4. GEF-5 IW Strategy Objectives
Catalyze multi-state cooperation to balance conflicting water uses in transboundary surface and groundwater basins while considering climatic variability and change
Catalyze multi-state cooperation to rebuild marine fisheries and reduce pollution of coasts and Large Marine Ecosystems while considering climatic variability and change
Support foundational capacity building, portfolio learning, and targeted research needs for joint, ecosystem-based management of trans-boundary water systems
Promote effective management of Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ)
Climatic variability and change explicitly included for freshwater basins and LMEs and their coasts
Aquifers/groundwater explicitly included for true integrated water resources management (100 x water)
ICM Critical in all marine projects for climatic variability

5. GEF-5 Land Degradation Objectives
Maintain or improve flows of agro-ecosystem services to sustain livelihoods of local communities.
Generated sustainable flows of forest ecosystem services in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid zones, including sustaining livelihoods of forest-dependent people
Reduce pressures on natural resources from competing land uses in the wider landscape
Increase capacity to apply adaptive management tools in SLM

6. Good practice examples
Tanzania, Marine and Coastal Environment Management Project (MACEMP), BD-IW
South West Indian Fisheries Commission Project, BD-IW
China,Mainstreaming Biodiversity Protection within the Production Landscapes and Protected Areas of the Lake Aibi Basin, BD-LD
Tanzania: BD funding community coastal work and MPAs while IW funds the 200 mile EEZ law operationalization and includes baseline IDA funds upon which GEF can add increments..
South West Indian Fisheries Commission and Project
Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Comoros, Madagascar, South Africa
BD resources finance a component addressing the impacts on non-consumptive/endangered resources (marine turtle, large mammals, seabirds), while other components address commercial species. The biodiversity dimension of the project is strong with by-catch minimization and by-catch use, fishing impacts on non-associated species such as sea birds and marine mammals, and over-exploitation of some sensitive species of fish (fishing pressure on some sharks, tuna and bill-fish species, and slow-growing demersal fish, and by-catch impacts on turtles, marine mammals and seabirds has long been of concern at the national and regional levels). At the beginning of the project, the SWIOFP was probably the first opportunity for all the SWIO countries to have a chance to address these biodiversity issues in concert.
China
The project development objective is to strengthen integrated planning and implementation
of natural resource management and mainstreaming of biodiversity values in Lake Aibi Basin.
12. The project will strengthen sustainable management of watersheds to ensure a better
balance between available supply and consumption and increase environmental flows to Lake
Aibi while strengthening management of Lake Aibi National Wetland Reserve. Ultimately the
project will contribute to reduction of wind erosion from the dry bed of Lake Aibi that suspends
small-sized salt dust particles in the upper atmosphere and to protect aquatic and saline-steppe
environment of Lake Aibi – the largest terminal salt lake in the region. The project will also strengthen management
of Lake Aibi National Wetland Reserve, in particular conserving aquatic and terrestrial habitats,
stopping grazing by domestic animals and facilitating natural regeneration of native plant species
(Component 3), and ultimately to reduction of wind erosion from the dry bed of Lake Aibi and
conserve globally significant biodiversity and their supporting ecosystems.
Component 1: Water Resources Assessment and Optimized Allocation.
2. SLM practices
3.Biodiversity Conservation and Local Livelihoods Enhancement. The
objectives of Component 3 are to: (i) protect habitat and species of Lake Aibi NWR; (ii) Monitor
and research key species to allow for adaptive and well informed management; and (iii) support
nature reserve management, through staff capacity building and participatory development of a
management plan, and build a local and regional constituency of support for the reserve.
Lake Aibi has globally-significant
biodiversity (primarily migratory water birds, including nine IUCN Redlisted species; and
globally threatened terrestrial species such as the Goitered Gazelle, listed as Vulnerable on IUCN
Redlist).