$70 million awarded through Global Biodiversity Framework Fund
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has announced a second round of project preparation grants totaling $70 million through its Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF).
Eighteen grants will bolster new projects in 21 countries for efforts designed to enhance biodiversity, including support for more than eight million hectares of protected land and marine areas. In partnership with the Asian Development Bank, Conservation International, the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, and World Wildlife Fund-US, GEF will support projects in Angola, Belize, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Fiji, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Mozambique, Nauru, Palau, Peru, the Philippines, Samoa, Senegal, South Africa, Suriname, and Tonga. Projects include $1.16 million to enhance Samoa’s globally significant biodiversity at a national scale, $4.9 million to protect Mozambique’s Miombo woodlands and marine hotspot conservation areas, $7 million to enhance the management of protected areas in Indonesia through inclusive wildlife-based ecotourism, and $3.3 million to strengthen the protected area system in Angola through innovation and capacity development.
GBFF, which has received contributions from Canada, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, Spain, and the United Kingdom, was launched last August during the GEF Assembly in Canada in support of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
“The approval of these grants shows the new fund′s commitment to allocating resources efficiently to impactful projects that will promote inclusiveness,” said GEF chief executive and chairperson Carlos Manuel Rodríguez.
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