📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2020.2046.9
Status:
ongoing project
Responsible organizational unit:
2C00 Latin America, Caribbean
Contact person:
Christiane Delfs christiane.delfs@giz.de
Partner countries:
Caribbean Community
SUMMARY
Goals:
Implementation of the Caribbean Biodiversity Strategy
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Caribbean Community Secretariat
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
3,000,000 euros
Current project:
3,000,000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
21.06.2023 - 30.06.2028
Current project:
01.04.2023 - 30.06.2028
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
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DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Convention on Biological Diversity
Main goal
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
41030 Biodiversity
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Regionally Protecting Biodiversity in the Caribbean
Initial situation:
The Caribbean island states are characterized by exceptionally high biological diversity and are home to important marine and terrestrial ecosystems. These form the basis for important economic sectors in the region, such as tourism and agriculture, but are threatened by climate change, pollution, overexploitation, and environmentally harmful economic practices. Less than ten percent of the original plant life remains in a pristine state.
The member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have some laws and strategies for ecosystem conservation, but are unable to implement them effectively on their own. The countries cooperate too little regionally and are barely able to strategically protect biodiversity.
Objective:
The CARICOM member states are implementing regional strategies for ecosystem conservation.
Approach:
The project works closely with the CARICOM Secretariat. It supports the Secretariat in coordinating its nature conservation tasks, developing strategic competencies, and establishing a working group with CARICOM and government officials as well as civil society. An action plan is intended to coordinate regional strategies.
In close cooperation with the National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) initiative, the project trains governmental and non-governmental environmental institutions to use the results of the NEA for planning purposes and to integrate nature conservation into policies, strategies, and laws.
The project also advises on the introduction of a simplified, digital, and regional permitting system to equitably distribute natural resources and their benefi
