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Detail of GEF Project #541
| GEF Project ID | 541 |
| UNDP PMIS ID | 1231 |
| Funding Source | GEF Trust Fund |
| Project Name | Reducing Biodiversity Loss at Cross-Border Sites in East Africa |
| Country | Regional |
| Region | Africa |
| Focal Area | Biodiversity |
| Operational Program | 4; 3; 2 |
| PDF-B Approval Date | 1996-06-01 |
| Approval Date | 1997-05-01 |
| CEO Endorsement Date | 1998-02-04 |
| GEF Agency Approval Date | 1998-03-19 |
| Project Completion Date | 2003-12-31 |
| Project Status | Project Closure |
| GEF Agency | UNDP |
| Executing Agency | |
| Description | Activities include the development and implementation of processes that bring together traditional local and modern agency perspectives on a range of activities including land use and tenure systems, resource and biodiversity values, management systems, decision making systems, and associated incentives, regulatory structures and policy instruments. Success will be dependent on the development of a fully participatory and cooperative process of learning, exchange and sharing of information. Policy, legal and institutional restructuring and reform will be carried out in order to institutionalize the cooperative processes established. |
| Implementation Status | The final regional workshop on policy processes is planned for March 7/8 in Arusha - the last formal project activity. Kenya forest planning activity ended in Dec 2004. |
| PDF B Amount | 244,000 USD |
| GEF Project Grant | 12,655,000 USD |
| GEF Grant | 12,899,000 USD |
| Cofinancing Total | 5,270,000 USD |
| Project Cost | 18,169,000 USD |
| GEF Project (CEO Endo.) | 12,655,000 USD |
| Project Cost (CEO Endo.) | 12,899,000 USD |
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