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Detail of GEF Project #778
| GEF Project ID | 778 |
| IBRD PO ID | 66674 |
| Funding Source | GEF Trust Fund |
| Project Name | Indigenous and Community Biodiversity Conservation (COINBIO) |
| Country | Mexico |
| Region | Latin America and Caribbean |
| Focal Area | Biodiversity |
| Operational Program | 4; 3 |
| PDF-A Approval Date | 1998-08-06 |
| PDF-B Approval Date | 1999-06-10 |
| Approval Date | 2000-05-01 |
| CEO Endorsement Date | 2000-10-27 |
| GEF Agency Approval Date | 2000-11-28 |
| Project Completion Date | 2008-06-30 |
| Project Status | Project Closure |
| Executing Agency | SEMARNAP |
| Description | The overall goal of the project is to achieve more effective biodiversity conservation in the states of Oaxaca, Michoacán and Guerrero by promoting the sustainable protection and use of biodiversity by indigenous communities and ejidos. Specific project objectives would be to: (i) establish and strengthen community conservation areas on lands with high biodiversity value that are communally owned by indigenous communities and ejidos; (ii) promote activities that generate income by and for program participants from the sustainable use of community biodiversity in the community conservation areas, as well as in adjacent forestry and multiple use lands; (iii) consolidate the institutional and technical practices for establishing community-based biological corridors and establish priority corridors within and across the three states; (iv) increase the organizational and administrative capacity of interested communities to protect and sustainably manage biodiversity on their territory both within community conservation areas and adjacent lands; (v) improve social participation in biodiversity conservation through networks of communities across the three states; (vi) identify, and to the extent feasible promote, mechanisms of sustainable financing for landscape-wide conservation, including markets for ecological services and for financing recurrent costs of protecting the internationally significant biological resources owned by the communities; and vii) strengthen the capacity of state SEMARNAP delegations to promote community conservation and the establishment of biological corridors and coordinate efforts to achieve the above objectives. |
| Implementation Status | 'Project implementation is satisfactory. The Project’s National Committee has been formed with representatives from; CONAFOR, SEMARNAT, CONANP, CONABIO, CONAF, and three community representatives selected from the State Committees. To formalize the project technical advisor role transfer from SEMARNAT to CONAFOR some sections of the legal contract need to be amended. The National Coordinator has been in place since January 2003 and State coordinators had previously been hired. The first round of subprojects has been approved and are under implementation. MTR is scheduled for July 2005. |
| PDF A Amount | 25,000 USD |
| PDF B Amount | 350,000 USD |
| GEF Project Grant | 7,200,000 USD |
| GEF Grant | 7,575,000 USD |
| Cofinancing Total | 11,200,000 USD |
| Project Cost | 18,775,000 USD |
| GEF Agency Fees | 942,000 USD |
| GEF Project (CEO Endo.) | 7,500,000 USD |
| Cofinancing Total (CEO Endo.) | 11,200,000 USD |
| Project Cost (CEO Endo.) | 19,075,000 USD |
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