Updating the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) Ecosystem Profile for the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotpot
Actualización del perfil de ecosistemas del Fondo de asociación para ecosistemas críticos (CEPF) para el foco de biodiversidad de las islas del Caribe
Brief Description:
The goal of the project is to update the ecosystem profile for the Caribbean Islands biodiversity hotspot through a participatory process. The ecosystem profile will take advantage of emerging opportunities and align with existing investments by governments and other donors, and will provide a platform through which funders and other partners interested in supporting civil society groups in the hotspot can share goals and strategies. The updated profile will be a snapshot of the hotspot in 2017 that describes the current state of, and threats to, biodiversity and the capacity of civil society to engage as a partner in conservation. The framework for a new investment in the Caribbean Islands biodiversity hotspot is being done through a series of national and regional meetings, which would bring opportunities to shape the updated CEPF ecosystem profile and investment framework for the region. This project follows a successful initial five-year investment that ended in July 2016. The project is comprising on a consultative process that will define the parameters of the new CEPF investment in the Caribbean.
El objetivo del proyecto es actualizar el perfil del ecosistema para el hotspot de biodiversidad de las Islas del Caribe a través de un proceso participativo. El perfil del ecosistema aprovechará las oportunidades emergentes y se alineará con las inversiones existentes de los gobiernos y otros donantes, y proporcionará una plataforma a través de la cual los financiadores y otros socios interesados en apoyar a los grupos de la sociedad civil en el hotspot pueden compartir objetivos y estrategias. El perfil actualizado será una instantánea del hotspot en 2017 que describe el estado actual y las amenazas a la biodiversidad y la capacidad de la sociedad civil para participar como socio en la conservación. El marco para una nueva inversión en el hotspot de biodiversidad de las Islas del Caribe se está realizando a través de una serie de reuniones nacionales y regionales, que brindarían oportunidades para dar forma al perfil del ecosistema y el marco de inversión actualizados del CEPF para la región. Este proyecto sigue a una exitosa inversión inicial de cinco años que finalizó en julio de 2016. El proyecto comprende un proceso consultivo que definirá los parámetros de la nueva inversión del CEPF en el Caribe.
Lead Organization : CANARI
Donor: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), IUCN, GEF, Japan, MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank
Project Profile Manager: Nicole A. Brown
Contact Email: nicolebrown@canari.org Contact Phone:
Partners: BirdLife International, IUCN, NY Botanical Garden
Grant (USD):
$1,021,430.00
Total co-financing (USD):
$895,863.00
(Co) financing not originating from GEF:
Participating Country(s):
Antigua and BarbudaBahamasBarbadosDominicaDominican RepublicGrenadaHaitiJamaicaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
Contributions to the 10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Programme (2015-2025)
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1. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment
1.5. Establish and/or enhance the capacity of the regional,sub-regional and national governance arrangements for the involvement of civil society in the implementation of the EBM/EAF approach (IGOs,NGOs,CBOs,private sector...)
1.10. Establish and/or enhance the data and information quality and collection and management capacity of the regional, sub-regional and nationalgovernance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment, including through the establishment of public-private partnerships
2. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for sustainable fisheries
3. Establish and operationalise a regional policy coordination mechanismfor ocean governance, with initial focus on shared Living Marine Resources
3.6. Develop and coordinate integrated and sectoral sustainable financing strategies for the cost-effective implementation of broader ocean governance in the region, with a short and medium term focus on sLMR governance
3.7. Facilitate the preparation of data and information products and the uptake of monitoring and research outputs by (sub)regional and national science-policy interfaces
4. Enhance the governance arrangements for ecosystem-based management for reefs and associated ecosystems
4.5. Develop and implement initiatives for sustainable livelihoods by building capacity for diversification, fostering and facilitating viable alternative sources of Decent Work and/or improved incomes, and creating addedvalue (e.g. through marketing and sales)
4A. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for spiny lobster fisheries
4B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for queen conch fisheries
5. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing an ecosystem approach for pelagic fisheries
5A. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing the ecosystem approach for flyingfish fisheries
5B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for large pelagics fisheries
6. Implement EBM/EAF of the Guianas-Brazil continental shelf with special reference to the shrimp and groundfish fishery
Contributions to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda (SDG’s)
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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10 Reduce inequality within and among countries
11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.7 By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.b Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Other Regional and Global Commitments
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Haiti 
Jamaica 
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