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Long-Term Vision for the Albertine Rift and Eastern Arc Mountains Region of the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot CEPF/DC/electronic/57 Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund No Objection Approval Request 10 December 2018 Long-term vision for the Albertine Rift and Eastern Arc Mountains Region of the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot Recommended Action Item: The Donor Council is asked to endorse on a no-objection basis the long-term vision for the Albertine Rift and Eastern Arc Mountains Region of the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot. The deadline for no-objection endorsement is 24 December 2018. Background At its 24th meeting, on 28 January 2014, the CEPF Donor Council approved the strategic framework for Phase III of CEPF. The new strategy proposed taking CEPF to a scale where it can have a transformational impact on reversing biodiversity loss in the hotspots. To this end, four key outcomes were agreed for the new phase, including: Long-term strategic visions developed and implemented for at least 12 hotspots, facilitating the development of credible, effective and well-resourced civil societies, and delivering improved biodiversity conservation, enhanced provision from healthy ecosystems of services important to human wellbeing, and greater alignment of conservation goals with public policy and private sector business practices. Unlike an ecosystem profile, which outlines investment priorities for CEPF grant-making over five years, a long-term vision is meant to be a guide for both CEPF and other actors (e.g., host-country government, private sector, donors and NGOs from the economic development community) on how to positively influence conservation in a region over a longer time period. A long-term vision is built around five conditions for graduation from CEPF support, which address issues of: conservation priorities; civil society; financial resources; the enabling environment; and the ability to respond to new issues. At its 25th meeting, on 24 June 2014, the Donor Council approved the framework and scope of work for preparation of long-term visions. In line with this scope of work, the CEPF Secretariat awarded a contract to BirdLife International to prepare the Long-term Vision for the Albertine Rift and Eastern Arc Mountains Region of the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot. This contract was awarded following a competitive procurement process using the Selection Based on Consultants’ Qualification (CQS) method. 1 In order to allow the development of a coherent strategy, covering countries with comparable social, political and economic conditions, the geographic scope of the long-term vision was restricted to the Albertine Rift and Eastern Arc Mountains: the most biologically important region within the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot. Within this region, the scope was further restricted to Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The portions of the Albertine Rift within Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo were omitted due to security issues. The process to prepare the long-term vision involved four national workshops in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, held in June and July 2017, complemented by review of recent literature and interviews with key actors in the region. More than 200 stakeholders from government, civil society and international donors participated in the consultation workshops. The draft long-term vision was reviewed by the CEPF Working Group at its 58th meeting, on 25 September 2018. Following the meeting, the document was revised to address comments from the Working Group. The final long-term vision and a matrix summarizing the responses to the Working Group’s comments are enclosed as Attachments 1 and 2. 2 Submitted to Produced by December 2017 1 Contents 1. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................... 3 2. Introduction of this technical framework in the context of ongoing CEPF activities ........................... 3 3. Building on previous work .................................................................................................................... 6 4. Contextual information ......................................................................................................................... 8 a. Biodiversity importance .................................................................................................................... 8 b. Social, political and economic environment ..................................................................................... 9 c. Financing situation ............................................................................................................................ 9 d. Public and private sector engagement ........................................................................................... 10 e. Climate Change ............................................................................................................................... 11 5. Theory of change ................................................................................................................................ 12 6. Causal pathways to reach the targets ................................................................................................. 13 7. Priority actions to reach targets ......................................................................................................... 13 8. Financing plan ..................................................................................................................................... 19 Annexes ....................................................................................................................................................... 27 Annex 1: Policy: Mainstreaming into key sectors ....................................................................................... 28 Annex 2: Private Sector engagement ......................................................................................................... 32 Annex 3: Kenya Workshop Report .............................................................................................................. 37 Annex 4: Uganda Workshop Report ........................................................................................................... 49 Annex 5: Rwanda Workshop Report ........................................................................................................... 62 Annex 6: Tanzania Workshop Report ......................................................................................................... 78 Annex 7: Minutes of Advisory Board advice ............................................................................................... 91 Annex 8: Graduation Condition ................................................................................................................ 100 2 1. Executive Summary Since 2012, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) has been investing in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot (EABH). Recognizing that its traditional funding approach will achieve limited impact at national and regional scales, CEPF is implementing a new approach to build capacity of civil society to sustainably address future threats. The approach will be implemented in the Albertine Rift and Eastern Arc portions of the EABH, covering Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It relies on building a long-term vision specifying the conditions under which graduation of civil society organisations from CEPF support can occur. A set of five graduation conditions, each with five graduation criteria were developed by CEPF as a framework for developing the Long-term Vision. This framework was used to guide consultations in and beyond the region on the specific targets and actions that will lead to graduation. Tables have been prepared that summarizes for each of the five graduation conditions and 25 criteria, the baseline situation, at least one target for each criterion and the milestones to track progress through to 2030. Out of these, a total of 14 actions, addressing 10 targets have been prioritized as core for CEPF investment in the region. These cover all five graduation conditions. If they can be supported by CEPF, then the prospects for CSO graduation and successful engagement with other donors will be significantly enhanced. 2. Introduction of this technical framework in the context of ongoing CEPF activities Since 2012, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) has been investing in 15 of the 17 countries of the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot (EABH). Recognizing that its traditional funding approach will achieve limited impact at national and regional scales due to restricted timeframe and budget, CEPF decided in 2014 to implement a different approach where civil society would be empowered to develop requisite capacity to “respond to all present threats and any future threats that could reasonably be expected to arise”. Once this capacity would be realized, then Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) within the Hotspot would be considered as having graduated from the need to rely on further CEPF support to conserve its biodiversity. At this point the conservation of the hotspot’s species, Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), corridors, and the ecosystem services they support, would continue indefinitely in a self-sustaining manner. As a guide to implementation of this new approach, a draft Long-Term Vision (LTV) was developed in 2015 by Future Dialogues International (FDI) and subsequently revised by CEPF. This revised LTV was designed to clarify targets and approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity
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