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Government of Chile United Nations Development Programme Government of Chile United Nations Development Programme Project Title: Supporting civil society and community initiatives to generate global environmental benefits using grants and micro loans in the Mediterranean ecoregion of Chile Brief Description The Mediterranean ecoregion occupies a central place in the sustainability of Chile´s development. In it are concentrated essential social and cultural values, strategic economic assets and environmental values of global importance. Nevertheless, the pressure exerted by productive activities on the landscape places all of these values, and especially those associated with the global environment, at increasing risk. The sustainability of this region’s ecosystem services, its biodiversity and its economic productivity requires an approach that provides the opportunities, the means and the motivation to community organizations to develop, acquire and/or exercise the financing, knowledge and capacities needed to develop and manage their resources for global environmental and local development benefits. To trigger a change process in the ecoregion that increases the sustainability of land use and ecosystem services, uses biodiversity sustainably and sequesters and stores carbon, the project proposes to directly engage around one hundred community-based organisations and local governments in carrying out projects that address local sustainable development issues and also produce global environmental benefits. These projects will be nested in and aligned with the ecological, economic and social outcomes of landscape-level initiatives, which will be achieved through synergies among the projects leading to greater and more lasting impacts and resiliency. Landscape-level initiatives will themselves be supported by ecoregional and national level institutional mechanisms aimed at providing them with effective knowledge management, monitoring and policy incidence frameworks. These mechanisms will ensure longer term funding and greater coordination of the array of institutional development instruments, both of which will enhance sustainability of the landscape initiatives and their constituent projects. This project will cover eight pilot landscapes in the Mediterranean ecoregion comprising two million hectares out of a total of approximately 20 million ha of rural land in the ecoregion (10%). This demonstration will provide sufficient variety and scale to this landscape approach for credible learning and knowledge generation and the production of inputs to policy discussions. Partners in implementation of this project are the main public institutions addressing land and resource use in the ecoregion. 1 United Nations Development Programme in Chile Project Document Project Title: Supporting civil society and community initiatives to generate global environmental benefits using grants and micro loans in the Mediterranean ecoregion of Chile. UNDAF Outcome(s): By 2014 the Country will have advanced towards the design and implementation of policies that enable environmental and energetic sustainability. Expected Country Programme Outcome: Energy & Environmental sustainability Expected Results: Develop, demonstrate and mainstream the delivery of globally significant environmental benefits by community-based organizations in the management of critically endangered landscapes in the Chilean Mediterranean ecoregion: 1. Sustainable management of landscapes for biodiversity conservation 2. Demonstration /promotion of conservation and enhancement of carbon stocks through land use, land use change, and forestry, and local carbon monitoring systems. 3. Maintenance and improvement of flow of forest and agro-ecosystem services to sustaining the livelihoods of local communities 4. Community capacity development & knowledge management 5. Monitoring and Evaluation Executing Entity/Implementing Partner: Ministry of Environment (MMA) Programme Period: 2011 - 2014 Total budget 20,431,386 Key Result Area (Strategic Plan): Total allocated resources in cash: Mainstreaming environment and energy o GEF* 3,311,614 ATLAS Project ID: 00077514 o Min of Environment 10,000,000 Output ID: 00088249 o Grantees 1,000,000 UNDP/EU 1,000,000 o Project Duration: 5 years Start date: March 2014 End Date: March 2019 Total allocated resources in kind: Management NIM o Min of Environment 2,119,772 Arrangements o Grantees 3,000,000 PAC Meeting Date _____________ *Funds administered by UNDP Approved in the City of Santiago, Chile by: Ministry of Environment Date: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Date: United Nation Development Program Date: 2 1. Situation Analysis ...................................................................................................................... 1.1. Context and global significance – environmental, socio-economic, legal, policy, institutional 1.2. Threats, root causes ............................................................................................................ 1.3. Baseline analysis ................................................................................................................. 1.4. Long-term Solution .............................................................................................................. 1.5. Barrier analysis .................................................................................................................... 1.6. Stakeholder analysis ............................................................................................................ 2. Strategy ...................................................................................................................................... 2.1. Project rationale and policy conformity ................................................................................. 2.2. Country ownership: country eligibility and country drivenness .............................................. 2.3. Design principles and strategic considerations ..................................................................... 2.4. Project objective, outcomes and outputs/activities ............................................................... 2.5. Key indicators, risks and assumptions ................................................................................. 2.6. Funding modality .................................................................................................................. 2.7. Cost-effectiveness ............................................................................................................... 2.8. Sustainability ........................................................................................................................ 2.9. Replicabiilty .......................................................................................................................... 3. Project results framework 3.1. Incremental costs analysis 3.2. Project results framework 4. Total budget and work plan 5. Management arrangements 5.1. Collaborative arrangements with related projects 5.2. Roles and responsibilities of parties involved in project management 5.3. Audit arrangements 6. Monitoring and evaluation framework 7. Legal context 8. Annexes 3 List of Acronyms APA Agricultural Protection Act BEME Convenio Banco Estado Microcrédito. (Estado Bank – micro loan agreement) CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CBO Community-Based Organizations CIREN Natural Resources Information Centre (Ministry of Agriculture) CPL Consejo Nacional de Producción Limpia (National Council for Clean Production) CSR Corporate Social Responsibility CONAF Corporación Nacional Forestal (National Forestry Service) CONAMA Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente (National Environment Commission) CORFO Corporación de Fomento (Production Promotion Corporation) CORFO INNOVA Fondo Innova de CORFO (Innova Fund of CORFO) DEA Division de Educación Ambiental MMA (Division of Environmental Education – Ministry of Environment) DGCA Directorate General of Civil Aviation DINAMAR Directorate for Environmental, Antarctic and Maritime Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs DIPRES Dirección de Presupuesto (National Budget Office) FACH Chilean Air Force FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FIA Fundación para la Innovación Agraria (Agricultural Innovation Foundation) FNDR Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Regional (National Fund for Regional Development) FPA Fondo de Protección Ambiental (Environmental Protection Fund) FOSIS Fondo de Solidaridad e Inversión Social (Solidarity and Social Investment Fund) GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility GEF Global Environment Facility GISP Global Invasive Species Program GORE Gobierno Regional (Regional Government) IABIN Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature INDAP Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (Agriculture and Livestock Development Institute) INFOR Instituto Forestal (Forestry Institute) INIA Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (Agriculture and Livestock Research Institute) IET Iniciativas de Escala Territorial (Landscape Level Initiatives) LDC Ley de Caza (Hunting Act) LBMA Ley de Base de Medio Ambiente (Law of Environment, number 19.300) MEFyT Ministerio de Economía Fomento y Turismo (Ministry of Economy, Promotion and Tourism) MINAGRI Ministerio de Agricultura (Ministry of Agriculture) MINREL Ministry of Foreign Affairs MMA Ministerio de Medio-Ambiente (Ministry of Environment) NGO Non-Governmental Organization ODEPA Office of Agrarian Studies and Policies OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation
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