The main objective of this proposal is to assist Botswana prepare a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan which will define the status of biological resources, identify pressures on them, and propose options and priority actions for their conservation and sustainable utilisation for the benefit of all stakeholders.

GOAL: Globally significant biodiversity is protected by conserving the biological and cultural mosaic of habitats, species and land uses that comprise the Eastern and Western Rhodope landscapes. IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE 1: Landscape-scale conservation is effectively operationalized in Eastern and Western Rhodope Landscape Nature Parks. (GEF Financed & Co-financed). IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE 2: Stakeholders integrate biodiversity into resource management and economic development policy and practice. (GEF Financed & Co-financed).

Design and implement a landscape level conservation program (CALM) through a "Living Landscapes" approach to conserve key components of biodiversity which are either unique to the landscape or for which the landscape acts as a critical range. To carry out focused site-specific conservation interventions at key sites to conserve important biodiversity. To increase the capacity of Government staff, particularly at provincial level, to carry out biodiversity conservation. To increase awareness of conservation issues and priorities throughout stakeholders across the area.

The project would assist the Government of Latvia in addressing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in a biosphere reserve that covers approximately 6 percent of the country's territory. It will do so through the strengthening of the institutional, managerial, and financial sustainability of this protected area throguh legislation, policy analysis, strengthening instituional and stakeholder capacities to improve all aspects of the protected area (PA) management. . It will also integrate biodiversity conservation into the planning, management and sustainable use of the PA.

This project will demonstrate integrated ecosystem and watershed management for sustainable rural development with conservation of globally significant biodiversity, carbon sequestration and protection of national and international hydrological resources in three areas in Honduras. GEF resources will be used to incorporate integrated ecosystem and watershed management objectives, principles, techniques and practices into a rural development programme, called FONADERS 2, implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and financed by the International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD).

The overall goal of the project is to ensure sustainable populations of targeted endemic ruminant livestock breeds in four West African countries, in order to improve rural economies and to ensure the conservation of these breeds and their globally unique genetic traits.

The Agulhas Biodiversity Initiative (ABI) comprises one of three complementary GEF initiatives in support of C.A.P.E. aimed at strengthening systemic, institutional and individual capacities and establishing the know-how needed for conservation in different ecological and socio-economic conditions as needed to attain and sustain positive conservation outcomes. The initiative has been designed to distil lessons and best practices in Phase 1 of C.A.P.E., through demonstration activities geared to addressing gaps in the management framework, to inform implementation of subsequent phases.

At Pipeline entry: The project would assist the government of South Africa to conserve and sustainable manage biodiversity of global significant in one of the most important coastal areas of the country in the eastern Cape Province. It will seek to assess, plan and implement a strategy for the long-term management of the Wild Coast. It will prepare and implement and integrated land-use plan for the area aimed at nesting biodiversity conservation objectives into the regional sustainable development framework.

The proposed PIREP will facilitate the promotion with the Pacific Island Coduntries (PICs) of the widespread implementation and ultimately, commercialization of RE technologies (RETs). The establishment of an enabling environment conducive to the region-wide adoption and commercialization of RETs would involve the design, development and implementation of appropriate policies, strategies and interventions addressing the fiscal, financial, regulatory, market, technical and information barriers to RE development and utilization.

The goal of this pilot project is to enable a significant number of countries through capacity building to prepare for Stage II adaptation in the context of non-Annex I National Communications, as envisaged by Articles 4.1 (b) (d) (e) of the UNFCCC and Decision 2/CP.4. The objectives of the project are to develop an adaptation policy framework and to prepare national adaptation strategies for a few priority sectors that can be integrated into sustainable development plans of the participating countries.