Globally significant biodiversity within Asháninka territories and surrounding state forestlands is conserved under community management, and alternative livelihood opportunities benefit local inhabitants and reduce pressure on natural resources.

The least developed countries (LDCs) represent the poorest and weakest segment of the international community. The economic and social development of these countries represents a major challenge for LDCs themselves, as well as for their development partners.

The Philippines is one of the early signatories to the “Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). The objective of the project is to create sustainable capacity and ownership in the Philippines to meet their obligations under the Stockholm Convention, including initial preparation of a POPs National Implementation Plan, and broader issues of chemicals safety and management as articulated in Chapter 19 of Agenda 21.

Development Objective: Protection of Environment and Human Health achieved through environmentally sound management of POPs in Vietnam, including development of infrastructure and disposal capacity for POPs, building knowledge, exchange information and experience, development of treatment and disposal technologies for POPs waste, building capacity of analytical capacity, and application of cleaner production to reduce releases of POPs into environment.

The objective of the Phase II project is to assist the country in fulfilling its commitments to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climatic Change (UNFCCC) through the development and enhancement of national capacities and through public awareness. Through the Phase II project, a permanent national capacity will be developed to incorporate climate change-related activities in national planning that would allow Guatemala to diminish the adverse impacts of climate change and to meet commitments under the UNFCCC.

The project will serve to highlight the use of information technology in integrated ecosystem management and in sustainable development endeavors of relevance to the Rio conventions.

Add-on funding will support the government of Poland obtain national consensus on mechanisms needed to build capacity to manage and conserve biodiversity; expand on its initial participation in the CHM; and prepare a second national report to the CBD.

The objective of the project is to create sustainable capacity and ownership in Samoa to meet their obligations under the Stockholm Convention, including initial preparation of a POPs Implementation Plan, and broader issues of chemicals safety and management as articulated in Chapter 19 of Agenda 21. The Implementation Plan will describe how Samoa will meet its obligations under the Convention to phase-out POPs sources and undertake remedial actions for POPs contaminated sites in Samoa

The project goal is the conservation and sustainable utilization of threatened local plant genetic resources important to food and agriculture in Georgia. The project has two immediate objectives: 1. In-situ and ex-situ conservation of selected local agricultural biodiversity in Samtskhe-Javakheti on a pilot demonstration basis; 2. A strategy agreed and under implementation for replication in other Georgian regions of best practice and lessons learned in conservation and utilization of local agricultural biodiversity.

The overall objective of this project is to complement and support the activities of the Danube Commission (ICPDR) required to provide a regioanl approach to the development of national policies and legislation and to define priority actions for nutrient reduction and pollution control, with particular attention to transboundary effects within the Danube Basin and the Black Sea.