` United Nations Development Programme Project title: Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in coastal marine production landscapes Country: Panama Implementing Partner: Ministry of Management Arrangements: Environment (MiAmbiente) National Implementation Modality (NIM) UNDAF/Country Programme Outcome: Outcome 3.2: By 2020, the State has strengthened its capacities for the design and implementation of Policies, Plans and Programs that contribute to environmental sustainability and food and nutrition security, adaptation to climate change, reducing disaster risk and building resilience. UNDP Strategic Plan Output: Output 1.3: Solutions developed at national and sub‐national levels for sustainable management of natural resources, ecosystem services, chemicals and waste. UNDP Social and Environmental Screening Category: UNDP Gender Marker: GEN2 Low Atlas Project ID/Award ID number: 00099240 Atlas Output ID/Project ID number: 00102547 UNDP‐GEF PIMS ID number: 5750 GEF ID number: 9804 Planned start date: 06/2018 Planned end date: 06/2022 LPAC date: Brief project description: The project’s objective is to mainstream the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity into production land/seascapes for the integrated environmental management of coastal marine areas and for the benefit of the coastal population. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) investment will counteract the loss of coastal marine biodiversity in a production land/seascape in the Coastal Marine Special Management Zone (ZEMMC) in the southern part of the Azuero Peninsula in Panama. This will be achieved through the development of an enabling policy environment for the integrated environmental management of coastal marine production landscapes, facilitating the conservation and sustainable use of coastal marine biodiversity of global importance and the ecosystems goods and services provided to society through the integrated environmental management of the ZEMMC (292,970 hectares [ha]), and by systematizing best practices and lessons learned about coastal marine biodiversity conservation and its sustainable use in production landscapes and seascapes of the ZEMMC of the southern part of the Azuero Peninsula, thereby ensuring that these are made available for use in other production landscapes and seascapes in Panama. The project will help to maintain stable populations of selected fish species of commercial importance as a result of the use of best fishing practices, maintain the coverage of sea turtle nesting beaches, maintain stable numbers of three species 1 | Page of sea turtles nesting in the beaches of the southern area of the Azuero Peninsula, maintain the coverage of 6,072.3 ha of mangroves in the ZEMMC, and improve the habitat for coastal marine biodiversity of global and local importance in the southern area of the Azuero Peninsula as a result of reduced contamination (trash, solid waste, and agrochemicals) and sedimentation (erosion control). The project will span 4 years with a total cost of USD 7,384,030; USD 1,780,822 financed through a GEF grant and USD 5,603,208 in parallel co‐financing. FINANCING PLAN GEF Trust Fund USD 1,780,822 UNDP TRAC resources USD 0 Cash co‐financing to be administered by UNDP USD 0 (1) Total Budget administered by UNDP USD PARALLEL CO‐FINANCING (all other co‐financing that is not cash co‐financing administered by UNDP) UNDP USD 724,938 Ministry of Environment (MiAmbiente) USD 4,878,270 (2) Total co‐financing USD 5,603,208 (3) Grand‐Total Project Financing (1)+(2) USD 7,384,030 SIGNATURES Signature: print name below Agreed by Date/Month/Year: Government Signature: print name below Agreed by Date/Month/Year: Implementing Partner Signature: print name below Agreed by UNDP Date/Month/Year: 2 | Page I. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Acronyms and abbreviations ................................................................................................................................ 4 III. Development Challenge ....................................................................................................................................... 6 IV. Strategy ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 V. Results and Partnerships .................................................................................................................................... 17 VI. Feasibility ........................................................................................................................................................... 28 VII. Project Results Framework ............................................................................................................................... 31 VIII. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan ........................................................................................................... 36 IX. Governance and Management Arrangements .................................................................................................. 41 X. Financial Planning and Management .................................................................................................................. 44 XI. Total Budget and Work Plan .............................................................................................................................. 46 XII. Legal Context .................................................................................................................................................... 53 XIII. Annexes ........................................................................................................................................................... 54 Annex A: Multi Year Work Plan .................................................................................................................................. 55 Annex B: Monitoring Plan ........................................................................................................................................... 70 Annex C: Evaluation Plan ............................................................................................................................................ 75 Annex D: GEF Tracking Tool (s) at Baseline ................................................................................................................ 76 Annex E: Terms of Reference for Project Board, Project Manager, and Other Positions ........................................... 77 Annex F: UNDP Social and Environmental Screening Template (SESP) ...................................................................... 82 Annex G: UNDP Project Quality Assurance Report ..................................................................................................... 93 Annex H: UNDP Risk Log ........................................................................................................................................... 101 Annex I: Capacity Assessment of the Project Implementing Partner and HACT Micro Assessment ........................ 105 Annex J: Additional agreements ............................................................................................................................... 106 Annex K: Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Plan ................................................................................. 110 Annex L: Summary of Consultants and Contractual Services Financed by the Project for the First Two Years ....... 118 Annex M: Gender Analysis and Project Gender Mainstreaming Plan ...................................................................... 122 Annex N: Target Landscape Profile ........................................................................................................................... 131 Annex O: List of People Consulted During Project Development ............................................................................. 139 3 | Page II. ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AMP Panamanian Maritime Authority (Acronym in Spanish) ANAM Panamanian National Environmental Authority (Acronym in Spanish) ARAP Panamanian Office of Aquatic Resources (Acronym in Spanish) ATP Panamanian Tourism Authority (Acronym in Spanish) AWP Annual Work Plan BDA Agricultural Development Bank (Acronym in Spanish) CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CDR Combined Delivery Reports CPAP Country Programme Action Plan CPUE Catch per unit of effort CREHO Regional Center for the Western Hemisphere (Acronym in Spanish) DICOMAR Office of Coasts and Seas (Acronym in Spanish) EAC Environmental Advisory Committees EMP Environmental management plan ERC Evaluation Resource Centre FAD Fish aggregating device FECI Special Interest Compensation Fund FSP Full Sized Project GEF Global Environment Facility GEFSEC Global Environment Facility Secretariat ha hectares IBA Important Bird Areas IEO Independent Evaluation Office IPAT Panamanian Tourism Institute (Acronym in Spanish) KBA Key Biodiversity Areas km kilometers LAC Latin America and the Caribbean LPAC Local Project Appraisal Committee MiAmbiente Ministry of Environment (Acronym in Spanish) MIDA Ministry of Agricultural Development (Acronym in Spanish) MINRE Ministry of Foreign Affairs MiPyME Micro‐, small‐, and medium‐sized businesses M&E Monitoring and evaluation NBSAP National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan NGOs Non‐governmental