United Nations Development Programme
Experience: Above 10 Years
Skill Required: Monitoring and Evaluation
Apply By: 26-09-2022
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) and the Mozambique Fund for Biodiversity Conservation (BIOFUND), has been implementing the project designated “Diversification of Ecosystem Goods and Services for Finance Sustainability and Wildlife Management of Protected Areas in Mozambique” – BIOSFAC Moz. The overall objective of the project is to improve the financial sustainability of protected areas by increasing revenues. Under this project framework, this would be achieved through exploration of approaches that would lead to unlocking of additional stream of revenues from monetarization of ecosystem services and goods, while improving the systems for an effective management of other type of revenues currently in place. Consequently, the project was designed to be operationalized in three inter-related components, namely: Component 1 – Knowledge and know-how on how to monetarise a diverse set of ecosystem goods and services focusing on better understanding of options that exist to increase such revenues, either through unlocking existing ecosystem goods and services, or setting up relevant systems to make these more accessible. Relevant background research was planned to be undertaken in three pilot Protected Areas (Pas), Magoe National Park, Pomene National Reserve and Quirimbas National Park. The work would be undertaken to further substantiate already existing Management Plans and directed to leverage investment and Public Private Partnerships (PPP) opportunities. Component 2 – Planning, policy and legal frameworks supporting financial sustainability of PAs will ensure that the relevant enabling planning, policy and legal framework is in place that will allow unlocking benefits from PAs. For instance, the new Conservation Law Regulations require operationalization. A focus would be on a revision of entry and user fees and a systematization of their collection. Linked to the background studies prepared under component 1, PA specific actions from the financial and/or business plans would be supported. Component 3 – Systems and capacity of ANAC and BIOFUND for financial sustainability focuses on strengthening the institutional and operational set-up at these two key institutions. Following a functional and structural review of ANAC, relevant institutional alignments would be supported including capacity building through on-job training initiatives. The resource base of Biofund will be furthered especially through establishing a national biodiversity offset scheme. This project was designed following a UNDP/Global Environment Fund (GEF) supported project intervention, namely the “Sustainable Financing of the Protected Areas System in Mozambique” or PROFIN (PIMS 3938), whose terminal evaluation identified several Lessons Learnt from the project interventions, but also made very explicit recommendations for further addressing remaining barriers to advance financial (and management) sustainability of the PA system. As a result, The Government of Mozambique (GoM) requested UNDP to continue and deepen the started work between 2017- 2020, which coincides with the new United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and the UNDP Country Programmatic cycle, but the new project only started implementation in mid-2019. From its original conception until its implementation, however,this project experienced some changes and adjustments of outputs and activities, based on discussions and agreements among the parties on what were considered priority needs and feasible approaches of interventions considering the prevailing conditions.
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