Financial Cooperation between Germany and ACTO through the German Development Bank - KfW Annual Report January 1 to December 31, 2020 Regional Project for the Management, Monitoring and Control of Wild Fauna and Flora Species Threatened by Trade Project – 2006-66-222 - Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela Brasília, February 22, 2021 1 Summary Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 5 A. PROJECT BASIS & ENVIRONMENT ..................................................................................... 5 1. Operational capacity of the Executing Unit ......................................................................... 5 2. Actual availability of Executing Unit personnel as planned ............................................. 10 3. Description of the macroeconomic environment and the situation of the sector and the market .......................................................................................................................................... 11 B. EXECUTION STATUS AND SCHEDULE ................................................................................ 13 B1. What is the overall status of the implementation of the Project and its individual measures? ................................................................................................................................... 13 B1.1. Information based on the GOP, the AOP and the procurement plan, indicating the progress planned and achieved. ............................................................................................... 13 B1.1.1. Project Management....................................................................................................... 13 a) Formation of the Executing Unit ......................................................................................... 13 b) Bidding for International Consulting Services................................................................... 14 c) Preparation of key management documents (POM, GOP, AOP, APP) ............................. 15 d) External audit of the Financial Provision Fund.................................................................. 15 B.1.1.2. Detailed measures by Component/country/region ...................................................... 16 B.1.1.2.1. Component 1 ............................................................................................................... 16 Bolivia/MMAyA ............................................................................................................................ 16 Brazil/IBAMA ............................................................................................................................... 17 Brazil/LPF-SFB ............................................................................................................................ 17 Colombia/SINCHI ........................................................................................................................ 19 Ecuador/MAE .............................................................................................................................. 20 Guyana/GWCMC ......................................................................................................................... 20 Peru/MINAM ................................................................................................................................. 21 Peru/SERFOR .............................................................................................................................. 22 Peru/IIAP ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Surinam/RGB .............................................................................................................................. 24 Venezuela/MINEC ........................................................................................................................ 24 Component 1 - regional implementation level - PS/ACTO: ...................................................... 25 B.1.1.2.2. Component 2 ............................................................................................................... 27 Bolivia/MMAyA ............................................................................................................................ 27 Brazil/IBAMA ............................................................................................................................... 27 Colombia/MADS .......................................................................................................................... 28 Ecuador/MAE .............................................................................................................................. 28 2 Peru/SERFOR .............................................................................................................................. 29 Peru/PRODUCE ........................................................................................................................... 29 Suriname/RGB ............................................................................................................................ 29 Suriname/SBB ............................................................................................................................. 29 Venezuela/MINEC ........................................................................................................................ 30 B.1.1.2.3. Component 3 ............................................................................................................... 30 Bolivia/MMAyA ............................................................................................................................ 30 Brazil/IBAMA ............................................................................................................................... 31 Brazil/LPF-SFB ............................................................................................................................ 32 Colombia/SINCHI ........................................................................................................................ 33 Ecuador/MAE .............................................................................................................................. 33 Guyana/GWCMC ......................................................................................................................... 34 Peru/SERFOR .............................................................................................................................. 34 Peru/PRODUCE ........................................................................................................................... 35 Suriname/RGB ............................................................................................................................ 36 Venezuela/MINEC ........................................................................................................................ 36 PS/ACTO ...................................................................................................................................... 36 B2 International meetings in which the EU participated with presentations on the project or by providing inputs to discussions, strategies and work plans: ............................................. 37 a) Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) .................................................................... 37 b) ACTO-Korea seminar with the possibility of a joint work agenda....................................... 37 B3. Communication Strategy ..................................................................................................... 38 B3.1. Notices, calls, bulletins, announcements and information of the Project that were placed on the PS/ACTO website: ............................................................................................... 38 B3.1.1. Calls ................................................................................................................................. 38 B3.1.2. News ................................................................................................................................ 40 B4. Can the planned implementation schedule be maintained? ............................................. 49 C. TOTAL COST AND FINANCING ........................................................................................... 50 C1. Project funding compliance according to sources? .......................................................... 50 C.2. Expenditures incurred, billed and disbursed from total program funds and Financial Cooperation grant during the reporting period. ....................................................................... 50 C3. What amount of interest rate differential has been accrued and what has it been used for? 51 C.4. Current status of counterpart ............................................................................................. 51 D. OPERATION AND SUCCESS OF THE PROJECT ............................................................... 51 3 D1. Are the assumptions being made for the achievement of the results as well as the objectives of the Project and the higher objective? ................................................................. 51 D.1.1. The information produced by ACTO is taken into account in public policies and by decision-makers. ........................................................................................................................