Objectives

To scale up and mainstream sustainable land management for large-scale impact in the grazing lands of target sites in Limpopo and Northern Cape of South Africa

Other

Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.

Target Groups

Normal 0 false false false en-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table 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:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} The Project will initially deliver socio-economic benefits to South Africa at the local level through activities at the target sites however aims to deliver these benefits at regional then national level through mainstreaming initiatives that drive SLM. By developing a platform from where SLM may be scaled, the benefits realized at a local level may be facilitated and supported at a regional level. Socio-economic benefits accrued at this local level will be largely through the upgraded value chain, increased revenue and productivity of local land users and related enterprises through improved SLM of communal land. This will furthermore lead to improved employment opportunities, with increased revenues for individuals, as well as the trickle-down effect to local vendors and service providers.The drivers of these benefits, as outlined in projet activities, include the following:1. Training and capacity building for improved SLM on local land, enterprise development (Mentor farmers and Para-vets); financial and market navigation.2. Improved institutional coordination (community, government and private) towards SLM;3. Improved land use sustainability and productivity through land restoration activities and improved SLM;4. Strengthened land tenure arrangements;5. Improved, incentive driven, access to finance and markets; 6. Access to small-grants mechanism for enterprise scale up; and7. Partnerships developed between commercial and informal stakeholders;The activities at a local level will contribute to the restoration of 130000 ha of landscapes through improved SLM at target sites.These local drivers of socio-economic benefits will be accrued at regional and national levels through mainstreaming of SLM. This mainstreaming is enabled through establishing the following: 8. A Knowledge Management Platform to inform evidence based SLM at multiple scales;9. A Sustainable Land Management Plan (SLMP) that informs regional SLM;10. Participatory Rangeland Management Plans (PRMP) that inform local SLM;11. The Rangeland/Biodiversity Stewardship Agreement that formalizes SLM intent;12. Training and capacity building for provincial landscape management institutions;13. Establishment of an SLM innovative finance mechanism; and14. Improved access to SLM finance through national development banks.The activities in their entirety will contribute to improved governance of 800000 ha through improved capacity to implement improved SLM at a regional scale.Implemented SLM will lead to improved land productivity from increased soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil moisture resulting in increased agricultural production and sustainable conditions for stocking rates of livestock which will support sustainable improved/maintained output potential of land. Socio-economic benefits accrued at the regional scale will therefore be linked directly to improved SLM of communal rangelands and the upgraded value chains. Improved SLM will also indirectly link through improved environmental benefits of reduced land degradation through restoration activities. Improved SOC will contribute to climate change adaptation and an increase in soil moisture will increase drought resilience. Further co-benefits of the project will include the conservation of biodiversity, improved hydrological cycles and mitigation of climate change. Environmental benefits will be accrued through improved flow of ecosystem services which impact socio-economic wellbeing of beneficiaries from local through regional and international scales. Normal 0 false false false en-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table 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:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";}

General

(Dominican Republic): USAID will use $905,000 in GCC adaptation funds to build municipal planning capacity for land use planning and climate change adaptation in Santo Domingo, Santiago, and selected coastal tourist centers. USAID/DR assistance will strengthen the Dominican Republic's ability to respond to the impacts of climate change and increase resilience of the Dominican Republic's most vulnerable populations. The negative impacts of climate change will compound existing vulnerabilities, such as poor public resource planning and management, the location of low-income populations on marginal and/or flood-prone lands, and a lack of analytically informed systems for decision-making. Therefore, USAID will improve the availability of and access to climate change information, and integration of climate change into municipal-level urban planning and private sector development, with the ultimate goal of increased adoption of risk reduction measures that specifically address climate risks. The Urban Land Use and Climate Change Adaptation Planning activity will contribute to the achievement of USAID/DR's Development Objective Two (DO2) Increased Resilience of People to the Impact of Climate Change during the strategy period 2014-2018 through IR 2.1 : Land Use Planning Reduces Damage from Climate Change. (IM #49972 $905,000 direct GCC-Adaptation)

General

(Colombia): ..The Natural Wealth activity supports the Colombian Government to preserve dry forests and grassland ecosystems, which are among the world's most threatened and under-protected. The activity helps to augment the presence of state institutions in areas where the past presence of illegal armed actors threatened fragile ecosystems by improving natural resource management and a culture of legality. The activity will work with national and regional authorities and the private sector to build the capacity of civil society, indigenous communities, and local government to improve natural resource management and conservation. The activity will develop economic incentives for biodiversity conservation, such as, commercial agreements, premium prices for products, carbon credits, nature tourism, and production costs reduction. Natural Wealth will support the government in the expansion and creation of national protected areas as well as private reserves. The activity will continue to strengthen land use management, early warning on ecosystem deterioration, and community monitoring. .. .The activity will also support the Colombian Government to improve the implementation of community development plans; strengthen civil society advocacy on natural resource management; and consolidate the market feasibility for economic alternatives in the surrounding areas of three Amazonian national parks to counteract deforestation. Natural Wealth contributes to the ICS Mission Objective to improve conditions for inclusive rural economic growth and sustainable development and helps Colombia on its Journey to Self-Reliance by improving biodiversity conservation and habitat protection..

Objectives

Objectives for Colombia: The program aims to increase the land area under legal protection, Natural Wealth will employ a two-pronged approach. The program will: 1) work to strengthen the management of existing, and new national and regional protected areas; and 2) enhance protection through sound, accountable land management by indigenous groups, communities, and the Civil Society Nature Reserves, support Colombia’s green growth strategy, which includes best management practices in the agricultural sector and development of sustainable economic opportunities to complement efforts to enhance biodiversity conservation, focus efforts at the municipal and regional levels to more effectively strengthen and operationalize national-level land use, and sustainable development and conservation policies on the ground, strengthen the environmental governance capacity of local and regional authorities, improve access to better information on threats to biodiversity, conservation, and habitat loss in order to establish conservation priorities and evaluate development options and tradeoffs.