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CONSERVATIONINTERNATIONAL

USAID "Biodiversity Corridor Planningand Implementation Program"

(Corridor) Cooperative Agreement

October 1, 2000 FY01 Implementation Planand Narrative Response to USAID

Comments** Implementation Plan last revised 10/18/00; Narrative Response last revised 2-14-01

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CONSERVATIONINTERNATIONAL

Biodiversity Corridor Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor)

Cooperative Agreement No. lAG-A-OO-99-00046-00

February 14, 2001

Dear Cynthia,

Re: Revised Response to USAID's Comments regarding FY01 AnnualImplementation Plan

I look forward to answering any of your questions or providing more detailed informationas requested. I can be reached at (202) 912-1407, or via email [email protected].

Best r~ards,

!r-7f~ }~ V&;rwk..fL.-/~a ~. Vermeulen DrakeManager, USAID Program Management

www.conservatlOn.org C.newmember@conservatlOn org

T202.912 1000F202 912 1030

1919 MStreet, NW Su Ite 600Washington, DC 20036

Ms. Cynthia GillBiodiversity SpecialistGlobal Bureau, Environment CenterUSAIDRonald Reagan Bldg 3.08-1511300 Pennsylvania Ave., NWWashington, DC 20523-3800

Please find attached two copies of Conservation International's revised response toUSAID's FY01 Annual Implementation Plan Comments dated December 1,2000 for theBiodiversity Corridor Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor) CooperativeAgreement. You will note that the revised response provided here now includes anupdated Philippines section which addresses issues brought up in the December 1stwritten comments from USAID and those brought up in the December 15thImplementation Plan review meeting. CI's response is in reference to the FY01 periodfor activities, by Corridor country site, to be implemented in year two under ourcooperative agreement with USAID/Global Bureau, Cooperative Agreement No. LAG-A00-99-00046-00.

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Conservation International's Response to 1211/00 USAIDComments on the FY01 Implementation Plan

I. BrazilII. GuyanaIII. Philippines

I. NARRATIVE SUPPLEMENT TO THE CERRADO-PANTANAL YEAR 2IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Introduction

At two million squared kilometers, the Brazilian Cerrado is a type of tropical Savanna, located atthe Central Brazilian shield. The most common physiognomy ranges from grasslands to tortuoustree forested areas. The human impact has turned the original biota into a largely fragmentedlandscape composed of islands in a heavily agricultural environment. The extensive transformationof the Cerrado has produced great losses of biodiversity, where species are highly endemic andtheir distribution is still poorly known.

Despite the fact that levels of endemism in the Pantanal are not as pronounced as in theneighboring Cerrado, the 140,000-km2 flooding plains of the Brazilian Pantanal presents highdensities of biodiversity extremely influenced by the water regime. The flooding regime determinesthe availability of dry or flooded areas influencing the seasonal distribution of different species. ThePantanal is influenced by the characteristics of three primary vegetation types: Amazon in theNorth, the Cerrado scrub forest of Central Brazil and the dry & wet Paraguayan Chaco. As a patchyenvironment, the different sub-regions of the pantanal are composed by a mixture of severallandscapes including: native grasslands, scrub forest, gallery forest, marsh vegetation anddominant species in different proportions.

The threats to the Pantanal and the adjacent Cerrado biomes are intertwined and multifaceted. TheCerrado in particular has faced development pressures since the 1970s, when new agriculturaladvances transformed this once agriculturally marginal region into an ideal place for soybean andother agricultural commodities production, turning soybean into one of Brazil's main exports. Thereis a growing concern that cash crops may be associated with negative consequences such ashabitat loss, erosion, and siltation.

Surprisingly, up to this point very few conservation efforts have been targeted at this biome. Theplight of the Cerrado has received little attention from other organizations and institutions in Brazil.Until recently the World Bank and the Brazilian government viewed this as the country's primaryagricultural frontier. Therefore, it is not surprising that this hotspot is less well represented inBrazil's protected area network than the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest, even though it is probablydisappearing more rapidly than the Amazon. Only about 1.4% of the Cerrado is protected by parksand reserves. This percentage is even lower for the Pantanal, particularly along the centralfloodplains. Finally, these areas are among the least homogeneously surveyed biomes in Braziland, as recently as last year, still lacked a clearly defined region-wide biodiversity conservationstrategy.

Although 5 new protected areas were created during this year by Mato Grosso do Sui StateGovernment, plus one National Park by the Federal Government, Conservation International's jobin this are is not done. CI and other NGOs are facing great challenge with the encroachment ofMato Grosso's Government in favor of the Waterway pushing the populations against the NGOs aswell as licensing the construction of the new port at Morrinhos. The recent declaration of thePantanal as a Biosphere Reserve and the Pantanal National Park as a World heritage sitethreatened the local farmers that are very suspicious about all this happening at once. (inside info:a new 2-3 hundred thousand hectares state park will come soon)

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Conservation International - Pantanal

CI has been active in the Pantanal since 1993, supporting several activities aimed at protecting thePantanal ecosystem through the creation of Private reserves, biodiversity assessments and raisingpUblic awareness of important issues like the creation of the Paraguay-Parana waterway.

In the last year, CI-Pantanal was instrumental in the creation of the State Park of the Rio Negro bythe state government, an area with one of the highest populations of giant river otters and jaguarsin the country. The creation of the state park and the private reserves established with CI'sassistance account for over 100,000 ha of protected area in the most pristine portion of thePantanal, which will be instrumental as one of the main core areas in the Cerrado-PantanalCorridor.

One of the main difficulties encountered by CI-Pantanal in the implementation of conservationactivities is the fact that 99% of the Pantanal wetland belongs to private landowners, who throughthe years have become more impoverished and have adopted more intensified techniques forcattle production in detriment of the local environment. The clearing of natural vegetation forpastureland and introduction of exotic plant species for cattle grazing are some of the greatestthreats we face.

Another major difficulty is related with beef prices in the Brazilian market which have dropped toless than half of what they used to be 20 year ago. In addition, the splitting of large properties alonggenerations has reduced the competitiveness of Pantanal's cattle production in comparison to theCerrado's lower production costs. Cattle production in the Pantanal is going through a giganticcrisis caused by two important managerial components: one is the ability to adapt to themacroeconomic changes faced in Brazil, and the second is the low technical level of the majority ofthe producers.

CI is very well positioned in relation to the problems mentioned above. First because of our localinsertion and established partnerships- no other NGO with CI's technical status has offered tocontribute to the MS, GO and more recently to MT State Governments with clearly demonstratedresults, like the creation of one of Pantanal's first State Park. The Alliance with the EmasFoundation has enlarged our capacity to face to the Emas National Park area approach, withoutinflating our personnel, and also allowed us to have a direct connection with Agriculturalists, whichwill be decisive on the success of the corridor.

The Emas Foundation - Cerrado

In the Cerrado, CI's first action was launched through USAID Corridor Project in 1999. In alliancewith the Emas Foundation, a local NGO based in Mineiros, in the boarder between the States ofGoias, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sui, which has long experience in natural resourcesconservation, specially mainly water conservation in the Cerrado region. The Emas Foundation,created in 1983, is the first environmentalist NGO to be established in the Cerrado. Since itscreation the Foundation has been strongly active in supporting conservation measures for theEmas national park, which was considered by the 1998 Pantanal and Cerrado Priority AreasWorkshop as the most significant Cerrado's "core nuclear area. Emas National Park & TaquariHeadwaters State Park - 162.000 ha and also was recently declared Biosphere Reserve byUNESCO considering his biodiversity importance link between Cerrado and Pantanal biomes.

The Cerrado is also one of the most important areas in crop production, using intensivemechanized production systems --mainly soya & maize -- with a fast growing agribusiness. It has afragile soil and it is also the headwaters area for three of the major Brazilian watersheds Paraguay, Parana and the Amazon/Araguaia river. The Emas Foundation works towards theconservation and restoration of forest cover in the Cerrado landscape as a solution for soil, waterand biodiversity conservation.

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What is the Corridor Information System?

The Corridor Information System (CIS) is simply a system to ensure that all the key actors in thecorridor decision-making process have immediate and equal access to the wealth of informationgathered during the project. For the first two years or so of the corridor programs, this processbegins with the baseline data being established for the individual corridors, thus establishing afoundation for our understanding of the corridors.

During the course of the corridor projects, timely updates to the system will allow corridorparticipants to assess critical infomation as it comes in, allowing them to rapidly adjust theirmanagement response (hence, the link with the adaptive managment aspect of the CLS). Becausewe want to design and maintain corridors based on sound biological and social science, it istherefore critical that the free flow of information is transparently available to all the actors involvedin the process. This information is inherently spatial, but can also include spatially referenceddatabases, key reports, i.e., any information that would be useful in our conceptual understanding,design and management of corridors.

The CIS will naturally differ from corridor to corridor, following recommended local standards andneeds. CABS will work with the CI Brazil/Guyana/Philippines in data, hardware, software andtraining issues. Because of CABS' initiatives in Knowledge Management and Arc Internet MapServer, the Corridor Information System can eventually be integrated into these systemsestablishing a comprehensive global information system accessible to key stakeholders over theInternet.

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In the table below, we have described how the activities proposed for the implementation of the Cerrado-Pantanal corridor willaddress the main threats in the area.

BASIC THREATS ASSESSMENT: Cerrado and Pantanal

Threats Root Causes Environmental Effects CI and Emas activities-Paraguay/Parana Waterway - Demand for commodities - Dredging and canalization of - CI-Pantanal has released a

(the Hidrovia) : to increase the - Cheaper transportation. parts of the river will adversely video to raise stakeholder's

efficiency of transportation for affect fish breeding and growth, awareness for the threats of

several products such as soybean which consequently affect the waterway to the

and iron and manganese ores from reptile and bird life cycles and Pantanal, with support ofthe Pantanal to tl1e La Plata Basin. would collapse the commercial W.Alton Jonh Foundation.

and recreational fishing industry. - CI-CPAP Embrapa did a- The possibility of salinization, evaluation report on thecontamination of drinking EIA that supported IDBwaters, and increased risk of oil decision in not fund thespills due to increased river proposed project.traffic also exists. - CI and other NGOs- Building access roads and promoted 3 stakeholderports seminars to evaluate the

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Agriculture - Governmental incentives in - Deforestation of riparian 1. Reforestation of ripariandle early 70's to expand vegetation around headwaters in vegetation would reduce silting of

agricultural activities in the the Cerrado lead to erosive watercourses thus controlling

Cerrado high plains processes causing the siltation excessive flood of farmlands. CI-Pantanal intends to tacklesurrounding the Pantanal of the water courses in thereforestation issues in FY03.

- Demand for cheap food Pantanal downstream. 2. CI-Pantanal in FY02 will developproducts. - Water, soil and fauna Educational campaigns to raise

contamination by pesticides; local people's awareness for thissedin1entation problem and how to

- Acceleration of river movements prevent it (2.7.2);through siltation, increasing 3. To implement the recuperationflooding areas of damaged areas and creating a

seed bank as an activity resulted byEducational activities (CI-PantanalFY03 Activity).4. The Cumeeira project, apartnership of ConservationInternational with the EmasFoundation and others, aims tocontrol erosive processes, and thereforestation of gallery forests inthe Cerrado specially on theAraguaia and Taquari river (Emasongoing project).

Extensive cattle raising in sand soil - Demand for cheap arumal - Introduction of exotic grasses. - CI-Pantanal is creating incentivesproducts. - Fire use in the dry season. for sustainable cattle (ecobeef)

- Continuous conversion of production by certifying producersCerrado into pasture. using appropriate sustainable- Serious erosion process caused by techniques (1.6.1).deforestation. - The Emas Foundation will help

the establishment of land use zonesaccording to agriculture andconservation potential.

- Domestic waste discharged into -Lack of sludge treatment - Waterborne diseases like Cholera, - The Pantanal Program developedrivers witllout any treatment, specially stations in towns where tourism Hepatitis A, Eschericia coli, etc. by the State Secretary for thein places with high numbers of is prevalent and ill farms, - Fish Kills Enviromnent and partners aretourists; dlerefore discharging raw sludge committed to creating/improving

in watercourses. sewage treatment plants in many ofthe towns in the Upper ParaguayBasin, CI is a consultant to the

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program for the JBIC.- CI-Pantanal will create a waterquality monitoring station at theRio Negro farm to aid the qualitycontrol of some of the mostpristine I1vers in the Pantanal.(3.3.1).

- Unregulated Fishing - Unsustainable sport fishing - Overexploitation of high valued - CI-Pantanal will aid the Rio- Lack of economic alternative species of fish Gau, pacu, pintado, Negro Landowner Association'sfor small riverside communities piraputanga, etc.) monitoring of illegal fishing and- Lack of enforcement of fish - Uncontrolled marketing of live wildlife trade by installing twolegislation in the Pantanal areas baits, like crabs and small fishes to control posts on dle entrances of

sport fisherman. the region (2.2.3).- CI-Pantanal AquaRAP expeditionto the Upper Paraguai Basin at Mfwill help identify the biodiversity offishes and highlight threatenedspecies and areas(1.1.5).

Uncontrolled use of fire - Need to renew pashlreland and -Loss of soil fertility. - CI-Pantanal started working withagricultural land in a cheap -Danger of uncontrolled fire the local fire brigade to implementmanner. destroying extensive areas of fire brakes and fire management

native vegetation. activities in order to reduce-Loss of biodiversity uncontrolled fires in private-Loss of habitat reserves, this activity is ongoing for

the next 4 years (2.7.3).Lack of sufficient protected areas - Extensive Biome with very - Loss of genetic diversity CI-Pantanal, the Emas Foundationsystem in Cerrado and Pantanal high diversity and heterogeneity endangering the viability of and partners will:

under pressure to be converted populations. 1. offer new incentives for privateto productive land. reserves (2.5.2/2.1.1)

2. Reinforce environmental- Lack of knowledge of legislation for areas of permanentbiodiversity importance protection and legal reserves.

3. Provide technical assistance onthe design and implementation ofthe State System of ProtectedAreas (1.4.1).

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Gold and diamond mining - Poverty - Mercury contamination - Promote the 2nd expedition of- Inadequate techniques - Erosion/stltation AquaRAP to Mato Grosso in order- Lack of job opportunities to have a better understanding of

water related biodiversity andtrheats(1.1.5)

- Support new socioeconomicalternative activities, such asbeekeeping, tourism, and organicproduction (1.4.2,1.6.1,1.6.2).

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1. Activity 1.4.2 - What is a charette? Is this a construction activity?If so, we need a cost breakdown, a further description of the proposed construction, andadditional information regarding potential environmental impacts of the activity.

A charette is an intensive workshop organized to solve some specific design or planningproblem in a short period of time. The charette organizers will put together a team ofdesign professionals, conservation experts and tour product developers to synthesize theknowledge of this diverse group and to quickly plan useful products. The result is a seriesof conceptual designs for tourism development that are truly "world class" and at the sametime firmly rooted in the unique resourc.es and conditions of the Pantanal.

In the specific case of the Pantanal, the specialists invited will tackle ways to implementtourism in the biodiversity corridor areas as a way to improve sustainability in the ongoingconservation efforts. By adopting the Rio Negro sub-region, as a case stUdy, we willpromote a more hands-on collaboration among the participants, in order to generate anoperational approach to developing ecotourism products that are both feasible technicallyand socio-economically and effective as a conservation tool. The charette will identify thepositive and negative existing aspects of existing products; clarifying bottlenecks to tourismdevelopment and considering strategies to maximize participation of local peopleenhancing the impact on long-term conservation of the natural and cultural resources.

Some of the products that will be developed during the charette are:

1. Development of touristy routes in the Rio Negro region, incorporating several ranchesaround the state park.

2. Sustainable tourism plan and product development, in order to protect key landscapefeatures, such as nesting sites, dens, and other breeding grounds.

3. Develop guidelines for infrastructure design, considering the use of local resources,the history and tradition of the Pantanal and specially the landscape interpretation. Forinstance: observation towers, blinds, decks, etc.

1.5.2 - What is the purpose and target of the proposed environmental Education activity?

Activity 1.5.2 is the hiring of an Environmental Education Coordinator who will be in charge ofactivities 2.7.1 and 2.7.2. The Environmental Education project will launch the Campaign entitled"Preservation of the Pantanal Watersheds". The focus of the Campaign will be the EscolasPantaneiras (local Pantanal Schools), located in the Rio Negro Region and will be developed inpartnership with the Municipal Secretary of Education of Aquidauana and the Land ProducersAssociations. This activity intends to enhance the pantaneiros understanding of the importance oftaking care of their environment and place greater value on their tradition. This will be achieved bypreparing, producing and releasing instructive materials and games related to the Pantanal and byproposing a discussion about special subjects such as erosion, siltation, uncontrolled fires, whichdirectly affect the region and its population. As well as giving support to the Council of the EscolasPantaneiras, keeping them operational.

1.6.1 • What is the link between the proposed activity (certified cattle) and biodiversityconservation? Will grazing pressure be decreased through this activity?

Although overgrazing can be a deleterious factor to forested areas in the Pantanal, due to itsselective effect on trees seedlings, few are the cases of overexploited pastureland in the floodplain.Actually, the abandonment of ranches and absence of grazing by domestic and wild animals couldbe more deleterious as a cause of uncontrolled fires. Extensive cattle production has been theprincipal economic activity in the Pantanal for the past 200 years. This activity has always takenadvantage of the native vegetation species of the Pantanal. However, in the past 30 years theincreasing high costs of the cattle ranching in the flooding plain compared to the highly intensive

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and sometimes mechanized techniques adopted in the Cerrado high plains are forcing localfarmers to adopt such techniques to be able to compete in the economic market. Some of theenvironmental impacts observed from this intensive form of cattle production are:

1. Introduction of exotic plant species, which are highly invasive, African grasses.2. Deforestation of extensive areas for pastureland and inversion of native grasslands.

By facilitating the certification the cattle products of the farmers that agree to follow theInternational Federation for Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) guidelines, we will beattributing an additional economic value to the cattle raised in an environmentally sustainablemanner. Beef produced in a certified manner will guarantee1 that:1. Only native plant species will be used, maintaining the genetic diversity of the system and

its surroundings, including the protection of plant and wildlife habitats.2. The long-term fertility of the soil will be maintained, as the use of fire is not permitted.3. All forms of pollution that may result from agricultural practices will be minimized as

products like synthetic fertilizers and pesticides cannot be used, nor should any other inputgive rise to unacceptable pollution of surface, ground or well water, air or soil.

4. Any materials and substances needed have to be of a recycling nature.5. No Genetic modified organism are accepted for organic production.

Encouraging ranchers to offer an end product with a seal that guarantees the organic nature ofthe product, as well as an important commitment to preserving the environment will decreasegrazing pressure in forested areas, as well as allow farmers to make a living from traditionalcattle ranching practices. CI proposes to help farmers in all the stages necessary to obtain thecertification of the farm and with the marketing and selling of the products to national andinternational markets as we have done for other products such as Coffee and Cocoa.

2.2.3 - As above, we request for any construction a cost breakdown, a further description ofthe proposed construction, and additional information regarding potential environmentalimpacts of the activity.

This activity is also not a construction activity. The control posts will be installed in existing smallhouses on the two farms mentioned in the activity - Retirinho and Esperanc;a Farms. The existinghouses may need some repair to the roof and paint.

The main aim of this activity is to provide support to land owners and the environmental police by:1. Controlling the entrance of sick cattle to the area, which may cause the spread of diseases

to wild animals.2. RegUlate the off road group movement trough the region3. Control the carjacking movement to Bolivia.4. Control illegal hunting and fishing5. Control the entrance to restricted areas like private reserves and parks.

The idea, therefore, is to minimize environmental impact by helping the environmental Police toguard this immense area.

2.4.2 - The $10,200 bUdgeted for this activity seemed low, will this be adequate?

This activity is to be developed in partnership with the State Secretary for the Environment and theState Land Department. As well as Cl's financial and technical support, the activity will bedeveloped with matching funds from IBD provided via the State Secretary for the Environment. Thisfund will be enough to assist with the Development and Implementation of the Management Planfor the State Park of the Rio Negro.

1 Basic Standards for Organic Agriculture and food Processing, IFOAM-1995.

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II. NARRATIVE SUPPLEMENT TO THE GUYANA YEAR 2 IMPLEMENTATIONPLAN

1 PARTICIPATION Activity 1.4.2In terms of the general comments, activity 1.4.2 is one of the most critical activities in the Guyanacorridor project, as it is designed to identify and engage the actors/stakeholders in Region Nine(this will be supported by activity 2.1.1). In the case of the indigenous peoples of Region Nine, CIhas already engaged communities and community leaders to move beyond basic 'consultations' tomore meaningful collaboration and the development of partnerships. Engaging the communitiesand creating partnerships is essential if we are to ensure the participation of the indigenous peoplein all aspects of the development and ultimately the management of a protected area in the KanukuMountains. It is also understood that CI has a responsibility to inform the communities, theirleaders, regional government and other stakeholders about protected areas, what they are andtheir potential impact.so that the stakeholders themselves are empowered and become informeddecision-makers. This would effectively pave the way for a collaborative decision-making processfor the protected area.

During recent discussions with the indigenous leaders of Region Nine, they themselves pointed outthat women were not fully represented in the discussions and have agreed to work with CI todevelop a means to nurture the participation of women in a way that is acceptable to the cultureand communities.

2 CAPACITY BUILDING: ActiVity 1.1.6

2.1 Building GIS Capacity in Guyana

Building capacity in Guyana, both within CI-Guyana and others institutions is becoming moreessential as the database on Guyana increases. Maps and information databases are importanttools for conservation planning and must be accessible to all those involved in developing theconservation corridor. Plans are presently being made to train CI Guyana personnel in GIStechniques and establish the corridor information system within the CI-Guyana office. Thisinformation system will then be provided and accessible to key government and non-governmentagencies and stakeholders. Trained personnel will be able to access this data and generate GISproducts "in-house" for use in a number of conservation and corridor planning activities. Thisactivity will utilize resources available under activity 1.6.1.

Nevertheless, this does not detract from the value of collaborating closely with the GuyanaIntegrated Natural Resources Information System (GINRIS) to benefit from their GIS support and tohave access to relevant data already available within GINRIS (under activity 1.1.9). Some of theinformation available in GINRIS is both sensitive and of strategic importance. CI is therefore in theprocess of developing an MOU with the GNRIS to ensure access to data and data sharing betweeninstitutions.

2.2 Corridor Digital Overflights

Most recently CI completed digital overflights of the corridor region in Guyana. Participantsincluded CI GIS experts from Washington, CI-Guyana Corridor Coordinator and CI Guyana Region9 Field Coordinator, as well as Guyanese ecologist Ivan Welch. Data gathered will provideinformation needed for vegetation mapping of the corridor area as well as information on many ofthe areas under cloud cover in existing satellite imagery. All information gathered during theoverflights will be analyzed and incorporated into a draft vegetation map for the Guyana Corridor.Ground truthing will take place during both the timber inventory in the conservation concessionarea and the resource use mapping exercises with the communities living around the KanukuMountains.

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3 ANNUAL CORRIDOR PLANNING MEETING: ACTIVITY 1.1.11

Activity 1.1.11 refers to our annual planning meeting, which is intended to review the experiencewith project implementation over the past year and to plan activities for the next fiscal year.Perhaps the use of several keywords in the Implementation Plan, such as 'workshop', in the statuscolumn, and 'review meeting', has caused a little confusion. In future language such as "reviewand planning meeting" should provide greater clarity when consistently used.

4 ACTIVITY 2.1.1Although CI Guyana is clear on the necessary steps to be undertaken to establish a protected areain the Kanuku Mountains, we cannot move forward without the active involvement, commitmentand support of the indigenous peoples living in the area. With this in mind, we have put the formalproposal to the GOG for the development of a Kanuku Mountain Protected Area on hold until afterthe indigenous communities in the region have been effectively engaged and their participation issecured. Over the next several months, CI will work with these communities to empower them tounderstand the issues and make informed decisions. This will enable them to have a voice in theprocess and ultimately the decision to establish a protected area would be a collaborative onebetween the indigenous communities and other stakeholders in the region and the Government ofGuyana.

The discussions with indigenous communities to date have been quite favorable and we areconfident that in the near future, CI will have established a number of formal and informalpartnerships with the communities and their representative bodies to advance the process ofestablishing a protected area in the Kanuku Mountains.

Further, we are confident that the Government of Guyana's commitment to the creation of aprotected area in the Kanuku Mountains. Over the past year, the GOG through the President'soffice and the EPA developed the Protected Areas Secretariate - the mandate of which is toestablish the National Protected Areas System. They have asked that CI participate on theSecretariate and that we take the lead in developing a protected area in the Kanuku Mountains

5 ACTIVITY 3.5.3The teachers of the various stakeholder communities stand out as members of a potentiallypowerful strategic group, since they are well placed to further the interests of CI in promotingenvironmental awareness and environmental education in Region Nine. Using a 'train the trainers'approach, teachers would be collectively sensitized and empowered to appreciate matters relatingto the environment. The materials provided in these workshops would ultimately be filtered into theclassroom to enhance the environmental awareness of students. In addition, by virtue of theirstanding within the communities, it is also anticipated that teachers will contribute to thedissemination of messages to enhance environmental awareness in their wider communities.

At the end of the activities, it is expected the teachers, students, and hopefully some members ofthe wider community will have an enhanced awareness of general environmental issues and thepotential benefits of a protected area in the Kanuku Mountains. A monitoring plan will bedeveloped to assess the effectiveness of this activity by comparing the 'before' and 'after'scenarios.

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III. NARRATIVE SUPPLEMENT TO THE PHILIPPINES YEAR 2IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

1. Overview of the 5MBC ProjectThe Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor (SMBC) is located in the eastern portion of the Island ofLuzon and encompasses the largest tract of lowland rainforest remaining in the Philippines. Basedon the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) statistics, the corridor coversapproximately 1 million hectares of forest, including roughly half of the remaining 800,000 hectaresof old growth forest in the Philippines. The area is rugged and still thickly forested, and includessubstantial portions of hinterland still uncharted and unexplored scientifically. The range stretchesfrom north to south and is bordered on the west by an extensive area of development and intensiveagricultural production. To the east lies several hundred kilometers of coastline. In addition to itsbiological importance, the area is still home to large indigenous populations, such as the Agtas inCagayan, Isabela and Aurora provinces and the Bugkalots in Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya.

Currently, the 5MBC extends through five provinces (Cagayan, Isabela, Quirino, Aurora andQuezon); however, CI Philippines (CIP) is considering eventually expanding the corridor into fouradditional provinces (Nueva Vizcaya, Nueva Ecija, Bulacan and Rizal). The proposed expansion ofthe 5MBC evolved out of stakeholder consultations/orientations on the project. The initialsuggestions were made by the Local Government Units covering the Sierra Madre range and theRegional Development Councils (RDC), which coordinate all development initiatives in the region.The strategic importance of the expansion areas was reinforced by the results of a spatial analysis,which indicated that the incorporation of these areas is critical to successful conservation within the5MBC. The expansion should not affect the existing budget or implementation plan because theproposed areas are contiguous to the original area, and planned activities and objectives arereadily adaptable to include these areas. The proposed expansion is already included in animplementation plan prepared for 5MBC beyond the period covered by the USAID Corridoragreement.

CIP is implementing and promoting the Sierra Madre as a biodiversity conservation corridor, whichentails the development of a more coordinated and improved management system for the region.The corridor approach seeks to connect existing protected areas, forest reserves, watershedreservations and other management units [Le. Community Based Forest Management Agreements(CBFMA) and Certificates of Ancestral Domain Claims (CADC)] under an integrated planning andmanagement system stretching across the 5MBC. At present, there are 22 existing ProtectedAreas that will serve as the core nuclei for a corridor linking the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Parkwith the Maria Aurora Memorial Park. Since existing protected areas, watershed reservations,forest reserves and management units are established in fragments along the corridor, large areashave been left open to access and occupation. These areas do not currently have a managementsystem to ensure that they are developed appropriately.

To date, there are still three logging companies currently allowed to operate in the corridor areauntil the expiration of their permits. According to the DENR, the latest will expire in 2007. Twospecial economic zones are also being established, one in the northernmost portion (Cagayanprovince) and the other one in the southernmost portion (Quezon province) of the corridor. Thegovernment also proposes to establish two major road systems traversing the Sierra Madre range.The intention is to connect the coastal municipalities with the major growth centers located on thevalley side of the Sierra Madre range and around Manila. As a result of the enactment of a mininglaw, there are already several applications for mining permits within the corridor area. It isexpected that mining investment will continue to have a big impact on the area due to the presenceof gold, chromite, and other valuable minerals. If not handled appropriately, these developmentand extractive investments pose a grave threat to the biodiversity of the corridor area, particularlywhen considered comprehensively. In addition, the growing population in the region can beexpected to result in increased agricultural conversion of forest areas.

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The project is utilizing the Rapid Assessment of Corridor Economics (RACE) methodology andspatial analysis techniques (e.g. GIS) to analyze the current state of the corridor area and to refinethe threats analysis. By compiling existing maps and information from the different governmentagencies (such as the DENR, the National Economic and Development Authority [NEDA] andprovincial governments) and using aerial photography in critically threatened areas, it will bepossible to formulate appropriate strategies and management interventions compatible with theexisting land use systems in the area. Current activities entail the development of the 5MBCframework needed to prioritize and target threats and to build the necessary constituency for theproject. In Year Two of the project, it is expected that more direct interventions will be implementedbased on current analysis and planning. These interventions include the investigation ofappropriate livelihood and development alternatives, the launching of awareness campaigns andpolicy advocacy directly addressing identified threats, the strengthening of existing protected areas,and the promotion of additional protected areas or other management units within open accessareas.

2. Project status/updates and Challenges/issues

In Year One, project activities focused on developing and expanding coordination, networking, andother outreach activities, as well as promoting and refining the corridor concept with majorstakeholders across the region. CIP successfully staffed up the project and expanded its on-sitepresence and capacity.

CIP made presentations to and engaged in discussions with NGOs and important governmentstakeholder agencies, including the DENR, NEDA, and Local Government Units (LGUs) at both theprovincial and municipal level. As a result of this outreach and information campaign, a variety ofstakeholders have expressed their interest and support for the project. Endorsements of supportwere received from the Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) of the Northern Sierra MadreNatural Park, DENR officials of the Regions covered (Region 2, 3 and 4) and many of the LGUs ofthe provinces encompassing the 5MBC. The PAMB endorsed the project with a resolution, theDENR expressed their support through a letter of commitment to Conservation International, theNEDA-RDC with their endorsement, and the provincial LGUs by creating Provincial SustainableDevelopment Councils. Likewise, NGOs have given support to the 5MBC, and the Foundation forPhilippine Environment (FPE) has adopted the 5MBC framework for all of their projects within theSierra Madre Corridor. Currently, CI is working on an MOA with FPE to complement groundactivities in Cagayan province.

Important progress has been made in the gathering of baseline data and information toward thedevelopment of a corridor information system that will support the framework and implementationplan. The baseline data includes biological, socio-economic, land cover, land-use plans, andregional, provincial and municipal development plans. The data gathered to date are beingcompiled using the CIP GIS unit. The majority of biological data, particularly on plants, weregenerated from the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, reflecting the limited biological dataavailable for the region. In Year Two, CIP will use analyses of the data and information to furtherdefine, and where necessary revise, the design of strategies and management interventions thatmost effectively address biodiversity threats in the area.

The immediate threat of biodiversity loss/destruction is aggravated by the proposed establishmentof roads, special economic zones, and the continuation of logging and mining operations in thearea. A new road, which has been partially constructed in Cagayan province, will cut across oldgrowth forest. The Regional Council for Sustainable Development of Region 2 and Multi SectoralForest Protection Group (RCSD-MSFPG) stopped the operation pending the issuance of anEnvironmental Compliance Certificate for the project. It should be emphasized, however, thatthese on-going development/investment initiatives are covered within existing laws and within theframework of existing investment plans of the government. In this context, CIP promotes carefulparticipatory planning to develop the best plan to address these threats to biodiversity withoutcompromising the legality of existing investments. Planning with the participation of allstakeholders, including the agencies regUlating the implementation of these projects, LGUs,

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concerned NGOs and local communities, will promote the acceptance of appropriate interventionsand build confidence and transparency in the formulation of development alternatives.

3. The Threats to the 5MBC and the Initial Activities/Interventions to Address the Threats

The primary direct threats in the 5MBC area are the development of roads across the Sierra Madrerange, logging, mining, land conversion for agriculture, the development of special economic zonesand the construction of dams for energy generation. Infrastructure development plans includehydroelectric installations, agro-industrial growth centers and regional trade and industrial centers.Despite the protected status of the park, there are still proposals to de-list some portions foradditional concessions and related infrastructure development. The Cagayan Valley StrategicDevelopment Plan for Region 2 outlines several development projects, including the three transSierra Madre roads and one coastal road within Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park territory. TheLocal Government Units at the provincial and municipal levels have generally welcomed thisdevelopment plan as a means of generating employment and increased market access.Transportation of goods in and out of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park remains a challenge,and the local people seek improved access to the rest of the country. The RACE process willelucidate the issues and incentives related to development and infrastructure projects, and willfacilitate the further investigation of alternatives and/or best practices. The land use and land coverassessments will determine biodiversity priority areas, including critically important ecosystems,areas of vulnerability and other key focal geographic sites.

Though logging in the primary forests has been banned, Timber License Agreements continue toexist. Moreover, the lack of legal protection of traditional forest tenure allows outsiders uncheckedaccess to forest resources. In Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, most of the timber poaching iscarried out by people from Quezon, but inhabitants are involved as well. CIP will address thelogging threat by conducting an intensive education campaign on the importance of biodiversitywithin the park and by supporting the Community Forest Guards (Bantay Kalikasan Brigade) andstrengthening the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park-Protected Area Management Board(NSMNP-PAMB). Additionally, CI's continuation of in-kind support to the Protected AreaSuperintendent of Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park will directly strengthen the effectiveness ofthe park's management. CI will also facilitate the process of building broad-based consensus forthe creation and support of specific protected areas across the corridor.

The enactment of the Mining Act (Republic Act No.7942) in 1995 put a vast portion of the SierraMadre under several mining applications, which continues to pose a grave danger to the biologicaldiversity in the area. Currently, some of the mining applications within Cagayan province haveobtained permits; however, the operations are stalled due to the absence of approvedEnvironmental Compliance Certificates. Other obstacles include overlaps in area coverage withCommunity-Based Forest Management Areas (CBFMA) and Certificate of Ancestral DomainClaims (CADC) issued to communities prior to the mining permits. The 5MBC project will facilitatethe implementation of appropriate actions to counter the mining operations based on thecompilation and analysis of all relevant data/information available for the area, including the resultsof the RACE. Data gathering and analysis will also be performed to provide stakeholders anddecision-makers with the information needed to make wise decisions on resource use andplanning. CIP will continue building alliances and partnerships to engage and generate supportfrom provincial governments, Local Government Units and local communities affected by theseextractive activities. The continuation of consultations on the 5MBC will increase awarenessamong all stakeholders of the long-term costs of mining on community development andbiodiversity conservation.

Given the numerous and varied threats to the 5MBC area, the project strategy will be refinedbased on the identification and analysis of the scale and intensity of the different threats. To date,CIP has collected a wide range of data on regional planning as well as information on stakeholderactors across the corridor region. CIP will perform an initial assessment of land use and tenurialinstruments within the 5MBC. The assessment will consist of developing a GIS database onexisting land uses in the 5MBC, including infrastructure development plans, in order to determine

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overlapping land uses and potential areas of strategic focus. The assessment results from thisactivity will be used to facilitate the RACE process.

Cils Resource Economics Program and CI Philippines' Resource Economist will design and initiatethe RACE for the 5MBC. The RACE will analyze and prioritize the major threats to biodiversityacross the 5MBC, with the results used to refine and target project interventions to the underlyingcauses of the threats. Each prioritized threat will be analyzed by CI staff resource economiststogether with local expert consultants to produce a report identifying the geographical distribution ofthe threat, the economic drivers, related political and management causes, and the economicincentives for different stakeholders. Reports will be prepared on the following major regionalthreats: (i) road development; (ii) industrial estate development; (iii) logging; (iv) mining and (v) damdevelopment. Based on the information and analysis that will be conducted through the RACEprocess, CIP will be able to develop a cost-benefit-analysis (CBA) and provide appropriate policiesand interventions to address some of the key threats within the corridor. Subsequent activities willfocus on localized areas defined as critical through the GIS and RACE assessments. Differentstakeholers, inclUding local communities, will participate in the RACE process in order to generateacceptable and credible results.

Overall, there is lack of appreciation and understanding among local governments andcommunities of the importance of biodiversity and its relevance to their long-term sustainabledevelopment interests. There is also weak coordination between government agencies, as well asoverlapping and unclear mandates. CIP will continue to facilitate consultations and biodiversityorientations with various stakeholders to strengthen the coordination and integration of activitieswithin the proposed corridor.

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Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor Threats Assessment

ROOT CAUSE(S) PROXIMATE Environmental Effect CI-Philippines Activities Activity's Effect on the ThreatsTHREATS

Local demand to reduce economic Primary: CI Philippines will:isolation (East-West) Road Habitat loss/ Alteration;

Development Biodiversity loss; 1. Purchase/collect andNational trans-SM super-highway (East-West) Increased Sedimentation compile on 5MBC (1.1.1),(North-South) (North-South) Le. development plans,

Timber extraction/ Secondary: timber and concession data,Coastal Road w/in NSMNP Logging; Pollution/Garbage build-up; land use data and existing

Migration; vegetation data as basis toNational Poverty Alleviation Program Easier Access for for the formulation ofand national-level economic Mining; appropriate managementdevelopment and infrastructure Tourism Increase interventions and formulatingplanning initiatives (Unregulated); advocacy strategy.

Increased Social 2. Process cloud free satellite

Conflict; images (1.1.2) and conductDisplacement of over flights and ground

Indigenous truthing (1.1.3) to determineCommunities the location of the proposed

roads and the extent of thethreats posed in constructingthe roads, including theidentification of criticalimportant and/or vulnerableareas. The data generated inthese activities will be usedto develop the appropriateinterventions.

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National Economic Goals/Priorities: Development of Primary: CI-Philippines will: The RACE process will prOVideGOP Growth, Employment, Increased Industrial Estates Increased Demand for information and analysis totrade/foreign and domestic Resources; 1. Design and initiate Rapid support the development ofinvestment Road Construction; Habitat loss/alteration; Assessment of Corridor policies and alternatives toDevelopment of Alternatives to small- Population Pollution/Industrial Waste Economics (RACE) along the extractive industries. Costholder agriculture pressure; propose corridor (1.1.6). The Benefit Analysis will be done onIncrease local level incomes Increased Demand Secondary: RACE will focus on major each of these threats andPromote economic/industrial for Resources; Water and soil erosion; threats to biodiversity across develop options to be providedmigration centers outside Displacement of Destruction of Marine the corridor. Each of the to the decision-makers.

Indigenous People; ecosystems threats will be mapped out Currently, data are beingand identify the economic gathered to establish the extentdrivers, political and of threat of each developmentmanagement related causes plans.and the economic incentivesheld by the different Baseline biological data will bestakeholders. incorporated in the analysis to

2. Establish biological Resource show us the impact of suchCenter (1.1.9) in order to project on biodiversity. This willshow/share information on the also provide the basis for thebiodiversity of the Sierra development of alternatives toMadre and its importance to the projects, which will causedevelopment. less impact on biodiversity.

3 Continue to engage indialogue and awareness The results of the analysis willcampaign to the different be conveyed to decision-makersstakeholders through and discussed with them,consultations and orientations including alternatives. CIP will(1.4.2 and 1.7.3) to generate foster awareness and providesupport and create pertinent information forawareness on the importance decision-makers.of biodiversity.

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Pressure to utilize resource base to Logging Primary: CI Philippines will: The data generated from theprevent outsiders from benefiting from (large-scale legal Habitat Alteration & RACE process and the biologicaluse (within NSMNP) and small-scale Fragmentation; 1. Compile existing data (1.1.1) information will be used to

illegal) Habitat and forest loss logging, land use convey the effects of this threat.Logging outside of concession areas Soil erosion - siltation of development plan, etc. and This will help raise awareness ofdue to low risk of sanctions (economic Increased access rivers conduct RACE (1.1.6) to the local community in NSMNPopportun ism) to new areas for Sedimentation of coastal serve as basis for policy and provide the NSMNP -

hunting and reefs/mangroves; advocacy activities, Protected Area Managementagriculture; identification and formulation Soard (PAMS) pertinent

Domestic and international demand Secondary: of appropriate interventions information for decision-making.for tropical hardwood Destructive or Increase in vector-borne that would address the

inappropriate disease incidence; underlying causes of the The continuous consultation andalternative logging threat. dialogue with the stakeholderslivelihood activities 2. Establish biological Resource will help generate information on(coffee growers) Center (1.1.9) in order to the actual status and update CIP

show/share information on the with what is happening on thebiodiversity of the Sierra ground. This will help CIPMadre and its importance to improve our strategy anddevelopment. developed activities that will help

3. Continue to engage in address these threats that aredialogue and awareness acceptable and easily conveyedcampaign to the different to the stakeholders.stakeholders throughconsultations and orientations National awareness is also(1.4.2 and 1.7.3) to generate important in the awarenesssupport and create campaign to educate theawareness on the importance decision makers at the nationalof biodiversity. level

4. develop media events andproducts (1.7.3)such as press Data generated from the RACEreleases, environmental book process will be conveyed to thelaunching and exhibits to decision-makers at the nationalraise national awareness of level. This will provide thebiodiversity conservation decision-makers the sense of

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Foreign Investment (international Mining Primary: CI Philippines will:markets) large-scale Water/Soil Contamination; Please refer to remarks 1 and 2

exploration, Habitat Destruction; 1. Compile existing data (1.1.1)Domestic and international demand development and River Sedimentation/Soil logging, land usefor gold, nickel and chromite, copper extraction Erosion; development plan, etc. and

Human Health Impacts -- conduct RACE (1.1.6) toLack of awareness of potential impact small-scale poisoning, malaria pools, serve as basis for policyon human and environmental health exploration, food source contamination advocacy activities,

development and identification and formulationextraction, of appropriate interventionsincluding the use of that would address themercury and other underlying causes of thetoxic chemicals logging threat.

2. Establish biological ResourceCenter (1.1.9) in order toshow/share information onthe biodiversity of the SierraMadre and its importance todevelopment.

3. Continue to engage indialogue and awarenesscampaign to the differentstakeholders throughconsultations and orientations(1.4.2 and 1.7.3) to generatesupport and createawareness on the importanceof biodiversity.

4. develop media events andproducts (1.7.3)such as pressreleases, environmental booklaunching and exhibits toraise national awareness ofbiodiversity conservation

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Energy demand for Luzon Dam Development Primary: CI Philippines will:Flooding/inundation; See Above

Casecnan Dam Electricity Disruption of aquatic habitat 1. Compile existing data (1.1.1)Generation; and ecology and habitat logging, land use

loss; development plan, etc. andRoads and Disruption of water systems conduct RACE (1.1.6) toassociated serve as basis for policyinfrastructure Secondary: advocacy activities,development; identification and formulation

of appropriate interventionsthat would address the

Expansion of underlying causes of thetourism/recreation logging threat.use; 2. Establish biological Resource

Center (1.1.9) in order to

Community show/share information on

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Low awareness of biodiversity Lack of effective Unimpeded biodiversity CI Philippines will:importance national and local destruction/loss of habitat; See AboveLimited financial resources/ primacy capacity to 1. Continue to engage inof other development priorities manage, equip and dialogue and awareness

police protected campaign to the differentareas; stakeholders throughHuman consultations andencroachment into orientations (1.4.2 andexisting protected 1.7.3) to generate supportareas; and create awareness on theFailure to establish importance of biodiversity.new protected 2. Establish biological Resourceareas Center (1.1.9) in order to

share the biodiversity of theSierra Madre with otherscientist and the generalpublic.

3. provide support to theoperations and capacitybuilding trainings of theProtected Area andmanagement Board and theDENR-Park Superintendentin protecting the NorthernSierra Madre Natural Parkand will help theestablishment of thecommunity forest guards thatwill assist the DENR in theprotection work (2.2.1 and2.2.3)

4. explore debt for Nature swapopportunities and assess aspossible financingmechanism for the SierraMadre biodiversity Corridor(1,6,1)

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Source of income from revolutionary Logging/habitat alteration CI Philippines will:taxes Increased rebel See Above

activities 1. Continue to engage indialogue and awarenesscampaign to the differentstakeholders throughconsultations andorientations (1.4.2 and1.7.3) to generate supportand create awareness on theimportance of biodiversity.

2. Establish biological ResourceCenter (1.1.9) in order toshare the biodiversity of theSierra Madre with otherscientist and the generalpublic.

3. provide support to theoperations and capacitybuilding trainings of theProtected Area andmanagement Board and theDENR-Park Superintendentin protecting the NorthernSierra Madre Natural Parkand will help theestablishment of thecommunity forest guards thatwill assist the DENR in theprotection work (2.2.1 and2.2.3)

4. explore debt for Natureswap opportunities andassess as possible financingmechanism for the SierraMadre biodiversityCorridor(1.6.1 )

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4. Financial Sustainability Activities for Year 2 of the 5MBC Program

CI-Philippines has taken programmatic measures to ensure long-term financial sustainability of the5MBC. CI-Philippines and CI's Conservation Policy and Finance Manager will explore debt-fornature swap opportunities under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act and will assess as possiblefinancing mechanism for the Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor. In addition, CI will continue to buildfinancial sustainability of the corridor by building the technical and financial capacity of 5MBCpartners and stakeholders. Technical and financial support to established People's Organizationsin Cagayan and lsabela provinces will include training on financial management, conflict resolutionand networking. Technical support will include assistance in accessing funding for operations.

In addition to programmatic interventions, CI will also bring significant co-financing sources to Year2 implementation. CI has been able to match over 20% of USAID's support for 5MBC. CI continuesto seek additional funding for this ambitious program, and has already been successful in engagingprivate sector support in the Philippines. In addition to continuing support from the First PhilippineConservation, Inc., the Foundation for Philippine Environment has agreed in principle to coordinateits funding and activities in the region with CI. The 5MBC program has also received support fromRicoh Corporation, Japan for conservation outreach and education activities, and is exploringfurther support. CI's Tropical Wilderness Protection Fund, contributing match funding for the RACEcomponent, can be expected to leverage additional funding for the 5MBC in the future.

5. Stakeholder Participation Activities for Year 2 of the 5MBC Program

In Year 2, CIP will take important steps to concretize stakeholder support of the 5MBC planningand implementation framework. Many regional organizations and agencies have become awareand interested in the Corridor approach. CI-Philippines will conduct biannual meetings withidentified 5MBC partners: Foundation for Philippine Environment (FPE), Plan International (PI),National Integrated Protected Area Inc. (NIPA), Department of Environment and Natural Resources(DENR), the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), and Local Government Units(LGUs-provincial and municipal) to coordinate corridor activities and inform partners of newdevelopments.

Right now, the Foundation for Philippine Environment and CI Philippines are forging aMemorandum of Agreement to jointly work for the implementation of biodiversity conservationprojects in the Cagayan province. The Regional Offices (Regions 2, 3 & 4) of the Department ofEnvironment and Natural Resources have expressed support to the project through letters ofcommitment issued by the concerned Regional Directors and are now working with the 5MBCteam on the on-going consultation and awareness campaign. The provincial government unitsagreed to create provincial sustainable development councils in support to the program. In additionto the awareness campaign, these stakeholders will also be included in the RACE process.

In addition to providing activity updates and additional information, CI-Philippines will continue tohold consultations on the corridor framework with stakeholders at various levels. Key stakeholdersto be addressed are DENR's regional and provincial offices, the Community Environment andNatural Resources Office (CENRO) in Regions 2 and 4, Local Government Units, provincial andmunicipal governments, NGOs and People's Organizations with community-based forestmanagement agreements within the corridor area.

6. Information, Education and Communication Activities for Year 2 of the 5MBC Program

CIP will conduct strategically targeted education and communication activities in Year 2. Majoractivities include the design of an awareness campaign for conservation within the Northern SierraMadre Natural Park and the promotion of the corridor concept to policy makers in key governmentagencies. As information and analyses become available from the GIS and RACE assessments,they will be incorporated into communication materials and/or disseminated through workshopsand reports. The different stakeholders of the park will jointly implement the awareness campaign

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activities. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, which is mandated by thegovernment to implement biodiversity conservation programs, will spearhead the continuation ofthe awareness campaign to include current activities and consultations. Local Coordinating Unitscreated in every province will coordinate the awareness campaign activities.

CIP will conduct presentations at stakeholder meetings, workshops and consultations. CIPhilippines will develop informational and educational materials, including a corridor brochure, tobe used by Site Coordinators and Community Organizers in outreach efforts to 5MBC stakeholdersand potential partners. Activities will include seminar/lectures concerning ecology, biodiversityconservation, environmental protection and wildlife management to targeted audiences (localcommunities and students) during the training sessions conducted in Divilacan and Maconacon.CI-Philippines will also set up an interpretive ecological display in the office of the Protected AreasSuperintendent (PASu) of NSMNP as an educational resource.

To galvanize public support, develop a national constituency and exert pressure on decisionmakers, CI also seeks to develop a national awareness-building campaign on the Sierra Madre.Anticipated activities include the development of Public Service Announcements (excellent footageis available, seeking match funding for production costs) and other media outreach. CI has alreadyhad a series of discussions with TV and advertising companies interested in helping to promote the"Save the Sierra Madre" message.

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Biodiversity Corridor Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor)

Cooperative Agreement No. LAG-A-OO-99-00046-00

October 18,2000

Ms. Cynthia GillBiodiversity SpecialistGlobal Bureau, Environment CenterUSAIDRonald ReC!9an Bldg 3.08-1511300 Pennsylvania Ave., NWWashington, DC 20523-3800

Re: Revised - FY01 Annual Implementation Plan

Dear Cynthia,

Please find attached two copies of the Revised October 2000 FY01 AnnualImplementation Plan for Conservation International's Biodiversity Corridor Planning andImplementation Program (Corridor). This Plan covers the FY01 period for activities, byCorridor country site, to be implemented in Year Two under our cooperative agreementwith USAID/Global Bureau, Cooperative Agreement No. LAG-A-00-99-00046-00. Therevisions pertain to the Philippines Corridor only. Please also find enclosed a FY01narrative supplement per Corridor country site to provide you with additional informationand in response to your FY01 Guidelines for Implementation Plan Review.

I look forward to answering any of your questions or providing more detailed informationas requested. I can be reached at (202)331-3407, or via email [email protected].

Theresa M. Vermeulen DrakeManager, USAID Global Cooperative Agreements

2501 M STREET, NW, SUITE 200, WASHINGTON, DC 20037 (202) 429-5660 FAX (202) 887-5188 http://www.conservation.org

I. Introduction

NARRATIVE SUPPLEMENT TO THE CERRADO-PANTANAL YEAR 2 IMPLEMENTATIONPLAN 10/11/00

The threats to the Pantanal and the adjacent Cerrado biomes are intertwined andmultifaceted. The Cerrado in particular has faced development pressures since the 1970s, whennew agricultural advances transformed this once agriculturally marginal region into an ideal placefor soybean production, one of Brazil's principal exports. There is a growing concern that cashcrops may be associated with negative consequences such as habitat loss, erosion, and siltation.

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Surprisingly, up to this point very few conservation efforts have been targeted at thisbiome. The plight of the Cerrado has received little attention from other organizations andinstitutions in Brazil. Until recently the World Bank and the Brazilian government viewed this asthe country's primary agricultural frontier. Therefore, it is not surprising that this hotspot is lesswell represented in Brazil's protected area network than the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest,even though it is probably disappearing more rapidly than the Amazon. Parks and reservesprotect only about 1.4% of the Cerrado. This percentage is even lower for the Pantanal,particularly along the central floodplains. Finally, these areas are among the leasthomogeneously surveyed biomes in Brazil and, as recently as last year, still lacked a clearlydefined region-wide biodiversity conservation strategy.


At two million squared kilometers, the Brazilian Cerrado is a type of tropical Savanna,located at the Brazilian shield. The most common physiognomy ranges from grasslands toforested areas. The human impact has turned the original biota into a largely fragmentedlandscape composed of islands in a heavily agricultural environment. The extensivetransformation of the Cerrado has produced great losses of biodiversity, where species are highlyendemic and their distribution is still poorly known.

On the other hand, levels of endemism in the Pantanal are not as pronounced as in theneighboring Cerrado. The biodiversity encountered in the 140,OOO-km2 flooding plains of thePantanal is mainly due to the water regime, which determines the availability of dry or floodedareas influencing the seasonal distribution of different species. The Pantanal region containscharacteristics of three primary vegetation types: Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado scrub forest ofCentral Brazil and the Chaco vegetation of Bolivia. Principal vegetations include: nativegrasslands, scrub forest, gallery forest and marsh vegetation.

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- Increase in the - Increasing human activity - Farmers are losing their - CI-Pantanal in FY02 will developsedimentation in highlands (Cerrado) as farmland due to the Educational campaigns to raise localprocess of the rivers the expanding agricultural erosion process in the people's awareness for this(mainly in the activity (mainly soybean) highlands. sedimentation problem and how toTaquari and Sao led to opening of new prevent it;Louren<;o rivers) roads and the - Increasingly flooded

deforestation of gallery areas in the plain are - To implement the recuperation offorests. reducing land once used damaged areas and creating a seed

for cattle raising. bank as an activity resulted byEducational activities (CI-Pantanal

- The siltation and FY03 Activity).agrochemicalcontamination of springs - The Cumeeira project, a partnership ofand watercourses. Conservation International with the

Emas Foundation and others, aims tocontrol erosive processes, and the

Jreforestation of gallery forests (Emas

. ongoing project)- Dredging, dyking, - Increasingly flooded - Social and economic - Reforestation of riparian vegetationand levying plans areas in the plain are complications such as would reduce silting of watercoursesalong several reducing land once used flooding in urban areas; thus controlling excessive flood ofstretches of the for cattle raising farmlands. CI-Pantanal intends to tacklelower Pantanal. - Fertility lost by the dry reforestation issues in FY03.

lands protected by thedams. As a consequencefarms protected fromflooding find it necessaryto use agrochemicals.

- Domestic waste -Lack of sludge treatment - Waterborne diseases - The Pantanal Program developed bydischarged into stations in towns where like Cholera, Hepatitis A, the State Secretary for therivers without any tourism is prevalent and in Eschericia coli, etc. Environment, with support from the lOB,treatment, specially farms, therefore - Fish Kills and partners are committed to creating/in places with high discharging raw sludge in improving sewage treatment plants innumbers of tourists; watercourses. many of the towns in the Upper

Paraguay Basin.CI-Pantanal will create a water qualitymonitoring station at the Rio Negro farmto aid the quality control of some of themost pristine rivers in the Pantanal.

- Gold and diamond -Poverty - Mercury contamination - Enforcement of current legislationmining (especially in - Inadequate techniques - Erosion/siltation regarding the use of mercury in goldthe portion of - Lack of job opportunities mining.Pantanal situated in - Alternative socioeconomic activitiesMato Grosso State)

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BASIC THREATS ASSESSMENT: Cerrado and Pantanal

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- Unregulated - Unsustainable sport - Overexploitation of high -CI-Pantanal Environmental educationFishing fishing valued species of fish campaign will work with the fishermen's

- Lack of economic (pintado, pacu, families and also with the tourists,alternative for small Piraputanga, etc.) especially about the "Piracema", whichriverside communities - Uncontrolled marketing is the period that fishes reproduce;- Lack of enforcement of of live baits, like crabs - CI-Pantanal will aid the Rio Negrofish legislation in the and small fishes to Landowner Association's monitoring ofPantanal areas tourists. illegal fishing and wildlife trade by

installing two control posts.- CI-Pantanal AquaRAP expedition tothe Upper Paraguai Basin will helpidentify the biodiversity of fishes andhighlight threatened species.

- Paraguay-Parana The Hydrovia ("hydrovia" - Draining and drying of - CI-Pantanal has released a video toHydrovia means waterway) is a large sections of the raise stakeholder's awareness for the

project to make 3,400 km Pantanal wetlands, threats of the Hidrovia to the Pantanal.(2,100 miles) of the Rio decreased flooding in theParaguay and Rio Parana upper parts of the Rionavigable to barges and Paraguai watershed, andlarge ships by dredging, increased flooding I

straightening bends, downstream.digging new channels, and - The~ossibility ofdestroying rock salin ization,outcroppings. The intent is contamination of drinkingto facilitate the year-round waters, and increasedtransportation of materials, risk of oil spills due toprincipally soybeans and increased river trafficiron ore. To increase the existsefficiency of transportationfor several products suchas soybean from Pantanalto surrounding areas

Extensive cattle - Traditional and low - Introduction of exotic - CI-Pantanal is creating incentives forraising in sandy soil technology way of beef grasses sustainable cattle (ecobeef) production

production. - Fire use in the dry by certifying producers usingseason appropriate techniques.- Continuous conversion - The Emas Foundation will help theof Cerrado in pasture and establishment of land use zonespasture in second growth according to agriculture andCerrado conservation potential.- Serious erosion process

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CONSERVATION INTERNATIONALBiodiversity Corridor Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor)Cooperative Agreement No. LAG-A-00-99-00046-00

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I CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL BRAZIL NARRATIVE - OCTOBER 11, 2000

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Biodiversity Corridor Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor)Cooperative Agreement No. LAG-A-00-99-00046-00

-Intensive - Well established system - Exploitation of water The Emas Foundation and partners willagriculture in of production, mechanical resources; help:Chapadas (oxisoils), and chemical - Losses of soil and 1. Restorelegal protected areas (Areasmostly extensive - Governmental incentives erosion process; de Preservac;ao Permanente e Reservamonocultures in early 70's' - Increase of superficial Legal).

runoff 2. Monitor faunal movements in- Water, soil and fauna agriculture fieldscontamination by 3. Identify faunal sensibility andpesticides; capability to circulate in disturbed areas- Eradication of natural 4. Monitor soil losses and erosionvegetation in a huge area process;- Eradication of natural 5. Monitor water quality and pesticidesvegetation in protected contaminationlegal areas 6. Develop of lower impact agricultural- Barriers and constraints systemfor sensitive animalsmovements

Timber harvesting Local demand for timber - Clearings of land for CI - Pantanal and the Emasand charcoal and charcoal pasture, secondary Foundation will seek alternativeproduction induce timber and economically viable activities to replace

charcoal production. those harmful to biodiversity and- Erosion, opening of reinforce compliance withroads and access-(o environmental legislation.wilderness areas

Lack of sufficient Extensive Biome with very Less than 5% of the area Cl-Pantanal, the Emas Foundation andprotected areas high diversity and is under legal protection. partners will:system in Cerrado heterogeneity under Protected areas are not 1. Create incentives for new privateand Pantanal pressure to be converted fully connected reserves

to productive land 2. Reinforce environmental legislationfor areas of permanent protection andlegal reserves.3. Provide technical assistance on thedesign and implementation of the StateSystem of Protected Areas.

Uncontrolled use of - Renew pasture land and - Health problems - CI-Pantanal started working with thefire agricultural land caused by smoke. local fire brigade to implement fire

- Loss of biodiversity. brakes and fire management activities- Loss of soil fertility in order to reduce uncontrolled fires in- Destruction of habitats private reserves, this actiVity is ongoing

for the next 4 years.Intensive agricultural - Pressure towards - Serious erosion process - The Emas Foundation will:practices in the agricultural extension in very sensitive soils 1. Help the establishment of land useCerrado area of the - Governmental incentives - Deeper water table zones according to agriculture andBrazilian shield. in the early 70's - Eradication of natural conservation potential

vegetation in protected 2. Carry out studies on the effects of firelegal areas frequency and periodicity on Cerrado- Low productivity vegetation

3. Identify priority areas forconservation.

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FY01 Conservation Intematlonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement: Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Comdor)10-6-00

~Program: Brazil

Obiective 1:

BUild biodiversity corndor planning and Implementation support framework

Year 2 Objective 1 level of effort:USAID $311,B51

GEF $16,000CI Unrestncted $20,000

Other Donors $126,000Total $473,851 'I •

Anticipated Five-year Benchmarks:

Comdor planning unit In placeCommon agenda established amongConsultative process completed with key stakeholdersMemos of understanding signed among key stakeholdersPreliminary conidor assessment completedComdor-wlde threats assessment completedStakeholder analyses, conflict analyses, functIOnal analyses completedInformation Infrastructure In placeData IntegratedInformalion shanng mechanism developedTraming providedCommunication strategy developed and functioningCommunication campaigns aimed at ?? AudiencePlan for long-term finanCial mechanism establishedFunding for corndor coordinated by donorsMonltonng and evaluation procedures establishedTraining prOVidedEvaluatIOn, lessons and recommendations communicated 10 corndor proJecl partners and decIsion-makersAnnual learning forum conducted

1 11 Biodiversity corndorassessmentcompleted (baselinelegal, biological,economic andSOCialassessments/datagathered)(Bodoquena, EmasNational Park.Parque Natural doPantanal, ParqueNaclonai doPantanal, ParqueEstadual dasNascentes doTaquan,ParaguayanCerrado, RIo Apa,and potential corenuclel/corndor area)

1.11 New FY01 ACtiVity Conduct assessment of threats, Overview preliminarystakeholders and stakeholder Incentives In threats assessmentcomdor area; including compilation of document, Including gapeXisting SOCia-economiC data on the Idenlificatlon, written andcorndor, gap analysis, and development of presented to corridor teamstrategy to fill In gaps In existing data by end of Year 2. At least 2(Cerrado and Pantanal) experts contracled to

conduct studies aimed atfilling in gaps by end ofYear 2,

Threatsassessmentdocument, TORs

Lead Anita Ake"a.Staff CI-DC REP,CI-Brazil economist,Corridor staffResources: stafftime, travel,consultants

$12,Soa: $2,300,(Cltlbank)

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Program BraZilFY01 FINAL Corridor Impl Plan Brazil 10-6-00_Bra _ .. - - - - 1- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conseo,atlon Intematlonat - USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement: Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor)10-6-00 -

1 •

1 12 INew FY01 Activity ReVlew threats assessment to strengthen At least 2 Issues papers on IIssue papers, liststrategic activity planning, develop long- different SOClo-economlC of Indicatorsterm comdor finanCing mechanisms, topics wntten and compiled,deVlse economic Instruments to encourage and approprtate SOCIO-sustainable land uses/conservation and economic mdlcators forIdentify soclo-economlC Indicators to be M&E Identified andused In mOnltonng and evaluation. descnbed by end of Year 2(Cerrado and Pantanal)

Lead: RelnaldoLourival, PauloGustavo & AnitaAkella. Staff: CI-DCREP, CI-Brazileconomist, Corndorstaff Resources'staff time,consultants

$25,332 $5,700(Cltlbank)

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1 1 3 INew FY01 ActiVity CI-DC Resource Economics Team Will IAtleast 3 staff members IAttendance listprovide on-the-Job trammg to capacitate trained ,n resourcecOrridor staff In land-tenure survey economics techniques bytechniques and mOnltonng of SOCIO- end of Year 2.economic Indicators. (Cerrado & Pantanal)

Lead: Anita AkellaStaff. CI-DC REP,CI-Brazil economist,Corndor staffResources: stafftime, consultants

no costl

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1 1.4 This IS a new activity,based on ACtlVlty 1.1 5from Year 1, but a newstrategy forImplementation wasdeveloped.

Conduct land tenure survey to compilemformatlon on pnvate properties In boththe Cerrado and Pantanal portIOns of fhecorndor InformatIOn collected Will mcludeproperty Size, ownerShip, etc, Withinpreliminary penmeter of the COrridor area,consisting of the core nucleI and Identifiedbuffer zones (Cerrado and Pantanal)

At least 100 propertiessurveyed m Cerrado by theend of Year 2. CompleteInvestigations at two majornotary offices m thePantanal within Year 2.

completedquestionnaires,informationcompiled Intodatabase

Cenrado Lead.MElfIO BarrosoPantanal LeadMOnica HarriS Staff'Emas Staff,temporary servicesfor survey teamResources' stafftime, equipment,travel, supplies

$63,966 $ 20,000(lWPFll

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1.1 5 INew FY01 ACtiVity CI Pantanal Will plan and execute a 3rd Expedition completed byAquaRAP expedilion to the upper Aug 2001; preliminary RAPParaguay River baSin, covenng all of the report produced andmost Important areas plus an entire nver dlstnbuted to localcommunity. As thiS activity Will require authontles, press,foJlow~up In FY02. CI Pantanal Will International SCientists andcomplete all traveling and data colleclion partner Institutions by SeptactiVities by July/Aug 2001 The 2001prelimmary report Will be produced by Sept2001 The final report Will be produced In2002. With thiS expedition we mtend tocomplete sampling of the Upper ParaguayRiver BaSin to obtain a comprehenSivepicture of the biological health of thePantanal ecosystem. It IS expected that10 sCientists and 4 students WillpartiCipate (Pantanal)

Data available on Lead MOnicathe Internet by HarriS. SalarySept 2001 ; (staff time), travel,preliminary report, field supplies,dlstnbutlOn list eqUipment; copies,

phone; fax, fuel;

$57,741

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Program BraZilFYOl FINAL Comdor Impl Plan Brazil 106-00

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CI and ItS partner organization mParaguay, Guyra Paraguay, Will raisefunds to conducl a pnonty-setting exerCisefor developing a conservationmanagement plan for thiS area of theCOrridor (Cerrado and Pantanal)

Pnonty sellmgworkshop held.

Funds raised to financepnonty sellmg workshop

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no cost;

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Lead JohnMusmsky CI DCtechnical team,John Muslnsky,Guyra Paraguay,

-2-..---..

In FY01 the COrridorTechnical Team andBraZIlian COrridor Teammet with the Director ofGuyra Paraguay onseveral occasions wherethe potential areas ofcollaboration werediscussed

1.16

FY01 Conservation Inte.natlonal- USAIDIGlobal Cooperative Agreement: Blodlvernlty Conidor Planning and Implementation Program (Comdor)10-6-00 ~

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1.2lintegrated corndorInformallon systemdesigned andoperatIOnal

12.1 ICorndor InformationSystem

Ct's technical team In DC will help CIBrasil, the Emas Foundation and partnersto develop and operate the CorridorInformation System (Cerrado andPantanal)

1

Comdor Information systemj Data collected by Lead' Johndeveloped and Operallonal the Cerrado and Muslnsky CI DC

Pantanal Corndor technical team,team entered Into John Musinsky,the System and BraZil Corndormade available on Team. Resourcers:the Internet. Staff time, travelling.

$8,493!

122 In FyOO ActiVity 1.1 3was to continuouslyIdentify Information gapsand compile new dataInto the Informationdatabase ThiS wasdone but Will continuethroughout the life of theagreement

As ongOing activity (1.1.3), the corndorteam and counterparts Will continue toidentify and compile available economiC,SOCial, biological and spatial data, as wellas Information on stakeholders, accordingto the plan developed In the workshopThiS information will then be entered bythe Intern hired by CI Pantanal (1 5 1) andEmas Foundation staff In a databasedesigned With the help of CI Washingtontechnical team (1 2 1) (Cerrado andPantanal)

Existing data compiled Inthe Informallon systemdatabase,

Database ILead: MOnicaInitiated; Report of Harns BraZilall eXisting data Corndor Team,sources BraZIlian

researchers andcounterparts, CI DCTechnical team.Secretary of theEnvironment ofMato Grosso doSui Resources:Staff time

$3,691

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1.2.3 IThis activity was partially IPurchase of computer software forIncluded In the FYOO Corridor Information Syslem. (Cerradoworkplan but will carry and Pantanal)over This activity Willsupport the landscapeanalYSIS component

Software purchased byJanuary 2001

softwarepurchased andInstalled

Activity Lead.Daniel Juhn •Alexandre Dlnnout!.Resourcespurchase ofsoftware

$1,612 X tx IX Ix

1.31 Corridor learningsystemladaptlvemanagement Inplace andoperational

131 New FY01 Acllvlty Design and Implement pilot monitoring &evaluation program The Corndor TeamWill work With the CI-DC M&E Departmentto design a MOnitoring Plan for theCorndor Project. DC M&E Staff WillproVide training in CI's SMA (StrategicManagement Approach) to corndor staff,creating M&E focal pOints for CI-BrazilThiS training Will be offered at theconclUSion of the Meeting With the LCUand Will take place In Coxlm (Cerrado andPantanal)

Corndor focal pOint trained IDraft mOnitoringIn CI's Strategic planManagement Approach anddraft monltonng plandeveloped by end of Year 2

Lead. MarioBarroso. Staff.Emas COrridorcoordinator, M&Estaff Resourcesstaff time

$5,124

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Program BraZilFYOl FINAL Comdor Impl Plan BroZl110-6-00_Bralll._ - - - - - 3- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intematlonal . USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement· Blodlvernlly Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Comdor)10-6-00 ~

1.41Participatoryplanning andImplementalionframework andprocess established

14.1 INew FY01 Activity

1.4 2 INew FY01 Activity

Develop agreements between landowners A land use project and aand corndor project, creating a legal baSIS conduct code Will befor requlnng landowners to follow best consolidated and agreedpractices for land use/conservation and upon In a workshop withconsolidating land for the corndor. These landowners, Mlnlstenoagreements Will be supervised by the Publico and Corndor staff,Mlnlsteno Publico (General Allorney), and and Will be formalized byWill have the full force of law. (Cerrado) the end of Year 2.

CI Pantanal's contracted consultant, ICharette attended byJoaqulm Azevedo, In partnership With CI maximum of 15 people andGuyana's ecotounsm specialist, Will draft deSign produced byorganize and conduct a 5-day charelle to Sept 2001.plan and design Infrastructure of farms Intoa comprehensive ecotounsm product. Thecharelle Will bnng different specialists onsustamable deSign together In order toexchange Ideas With local architects They:Will diSCUSS the use of local matenals,techniques and labor to enhance thequality of the expenence of VISitors to theregion. The charette Will be held at the RIONegro Farm and Will result In a senes ofdraft deSigns to be used m thedevelopment of the planned product Theproduct Will then be used as a referencematenalln suslalnable/eco-fnendly local/reglonal bUlldlngfinfrastructuredevelopment. (Pantanal)

Signedagreements

Draft deSign;attendance list

Lead PauloGustavo Staff:Corndor staff, legalconsultant,Mlnlsteno PublicoResources: stafftime, travel,workshop faCilitiesand matenals

Lead RemaldoLounval Staff.Consultant, CIPantanal, Ct·Guyana, DCtechnical teamResources:consultant salary,travel, perdlem/accommodatlon, printing, officesupplies, officeexpenses

$1,569

$14.5081

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1 4.3 1New FY01 ACtiVity CI Pantanal will Implement some of thedeSigns produced dunng the charette(activity 1.4.1)at RIO Negro Farm, In orderto demonstrate the effectiveness of theseenVIronmentally-sound Infrastructuredevelopment on the enhancement ofVISitOrs' expenence. The Idea IS tostimulate other land owners to ImplementIn their farms tounsm faCilities capable ofgeneratmg or mcreaslng revenues fromecotounsm activities. (Pantana/)

Example of InfrastructuredeSign Implemented at theR,o Negro Farm by Sept2001

5% Increase inFY01 vIsitation tothe RIO NegroFarm

Lead RelnaldoLounval Staff'Consultant, CIPantanal, CIGuyana, DCTechnical teamResources. stafftime, travel,contractedlandscapers;sustalnablyharvested localmatenals

$18,2281

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1.4.4 lin FYOO, CI Brazil, the CI-Brazll and the CI-DC Technical Team FY02 Workplan andEmas FoundatIOn and CI will conduct an Annual Corndor Planning accompanying budgetDC technical team held a Meeting, a week-long review of FY01 ReView and Planningweek-long planning Activities and planning actIVItIes for year Meeting Conducted Inmeeting to develop and three ThiS meeting will result m an FY02 August, 2001detail FY01 actlvllies and Workplan and accompanymg budget ThiSbudget ThiS meeling will meetmg will be held In August In Mlne"ostake place once a year (Cerrado and Pantanat)dunng the life of thiSagreement

Lead ManoBarroso Slaff' BraZilCorndor Team, DCtechmcal Team.Resources' Travel,Accommodatlon,supplies.

Program BrazilFYOl FINAL Comdor Impl Plan Brazil 10·6·00_ Bra,. __ - - - - -

Workplan andBudget

4.. • -

$10,307

- - - - - - -

FY01 ,:;onservatlon Internatlonal- USAID/Global Cooperau\r'9 Agreement: BiodlveT5lty Comdor Planning and Impl~mentation Program (Corridor)10-6-00 "4

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1 45 IThroughoutthe life of Ct-Brazil Comdor Managers and CI-DC ITriP Reports, Progressthis Agreement, the Ct- Agreement Management Team Will ReportsBrazil Comdor Managers oversee Implementation of corndor project.and CI-DC Agreement Management Will tnclude site VISitS to fieldManagement Team Will projects on a regular basIs to ensurework closely to malntatn projects are accompllshtng tntendedthe letter and splnt of the results and are running smoothlyAgreement and ensure Further, CI-Brazil Comdor Managers WillcoheSion and oversee the development of progresscommunication between reports, bUdgets and expenditures relatedall Comdors. to corndor project (Cerrado and

Pantanal)

1.5lCorridor projectteam operational

1 5 1 lin FYOO Acllvity 1 1 3 CI- CI Pantanal Will htre local intern to assist In Intern Will be hired andPantanal and the Emas the creation of corndor database and working part time byFoundatton started a begtn entenng biological & sOCioeconomic October 2000 Databasedatabase to compile data. The Intern Will work closely with the available information onvanous sources of Emas Foundation, Alexandre Dlnnoutl and website by July 2001Information In the DC technical tern Intern Will assure thatcorndar area This tnformation from the database Will beacllvlty Will be ongotng made available on the CI BraSil webSitefor the life of the (Pantanal)agreement

Reports,workplan, budgetand financialreports

Contract,databaseavailable onInternet

Lead. TheresaDrake Staff.Paulo GustavoPrado, MOnicaHams, and ClaudiaBecker Resource:Staff Time, pnntlng,communication,office supplies,training, workingmeetings

Lead MomcaHams. Staff: Intern,Retnaldo Lounval,Enka GUlmaraes.Aiexandre Dtnnoutl,Emas Foundallon.Staff time, webserVices, officesupplies

$45,219

$4,092

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1.5 2 INew FY01 ActiVity CI Pantanal will hire a part limeEnVIronmental EducatIOn Coordinator toassist With the Implementallon of thePantanal· Corridor educallonal programThe educatIon program WIll be a focus"Preservation of the Pantanal Watershed"campaign (Pantanal)

Env. Ed Coordtnatorcontracted by Oct 2000

Contract Lead RelnaldoLounval Staff:EnVIronmentalEducationCoordInator.Resources stafflime,communication.office supplies

$8,060

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1 5 3 lin FYOO ActiVity 1.5 1 CI The Cerrado-Pantanal Corndor IFour additional membersCoordtnators Identified Coordtnators Will Identify four additional Identified and brought Intokey personnel to members for the LCU (local coordinating the LCU by January 2001compose the LCU, which Unit), 2 from Cerrado and 2 from Pantanal.act as adVISOry counCil to to represent agnculture and livestockdevelop, Integrate and production sectors (Cerrado anddtrect comdar related Pantanal)acllvltles The LCU to-date IS composed bymembers of instltullons,Umversilles, other NGOsand Government, somembers of theagncullure and livestockproduction sectors Will beselected to have arepresentative groupcompoSing the LCU

Ftnalllsi of LCUmembers

Lead: RelnaldoLounval and PauioGustavo

no costl

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FYC'j Conservation Intematlonal- USAIDtGlobal Cooperallve Agreement Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Imolemenlatlon Program (Conidor)10-6-00

1 54 lin FYOO the LCU met The Corridor Team will convene an IOltlaiduring the workshop meeting of the newly compieted LCUorganized by CI-Pantanal between March and August, 2001 toand partners. In na effort Introduce members, plan and coordmateto coordmate our the yea~s acllvltles and clanfy the role ofactiVities a second the LCU members. This meetlOg will bemeetmg of the LCU Will held m Coxlm. (Cerrado and Pantanal)be held m FY01

One meeting at LCUmembers conducted,act,vllles planned and rolesIdentifies by August, 2001.

MeetlOgattendance listand resuitlOgdocument

Lead: Monica Hamsand Mano BarrosoStaff Brazil Corndor'Team, LCU.Resources: Travel,meetlOg supplies,staff lime.

$4,960

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1.61 Research long-termfinanCialmechanIsms

16.1 New FY01 Activity In an effort to ensure long term finanCialand ecological sustalnabllity of thetraditional ranching practices m the RIoNegro region, CI Pantanal 10 partnershipWith SODEPAN, Will support thecertification process of orgamcally raisedcattle, as established by IFOAM, byfunding the applicallon fees and part of themarket research reqUired This activItyhas long term goals and IS expected tocontinue throughout the course of theagreement. (Pantanal)

Certifications of at least 6 ICertificationfarms granted by Sept 2001 documents

Lead: RemaldoLounval stafftime; travel;application fees,supplies,communlcatlon/phonetfax/mall, conlractfor marketingresearcher

$17,537 $110,000(FUNBIO)

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1 62 INew FY01 Activily In an effort to explore options foralternative sources of long term finanCialand ecological sustalOabllity of the RIONegro region, CI Pantanal, 10 partnerShipWith the RIO Negro Producers ASSOCiation,will Implement apiculture actiVities andconduct free training courses for local landowners Smce honey production dependson the availability of fiowers (speCially Wildflowers), thiS activity Will stimulate landowners to keep large areas With nallvevegelatlon 10 their farms. In addition, CIPantanal has already conducted a ViabilitystUdy for honey production In the regionWith very positive results regardingbeekeepmg ThiS acllvlty has long termgoals and IS expected to contmuethroughout the course of the agreement(Panlanal)

50 hives malnt8lned bylocally trained techniCianprodUCing honey at the RIONegro Farm by Sept 2001 ;10 local workers trained Inbeekeeping techniques

Honey producllonplanl

Lead RemaldoLounval stafftime, travel, trainingsupplies; freight,phone/fax/mall;honeybee boxes,apiculture supplies;htred tramedtechniCIan

$8,8041

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Program BraZilFYOl FINAL Conidor Impl Plan Brazil 10-6-00_Br,.._ - - - - - 6- - - - - - - - - -

FYO 1 Conservation Intematlonal- USAID/Global Cooperailve Agreement Biodiversity Comdor Planning and ImplementlliOn Program (Comdor)10-6-00 ..g

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1 71AwarenessProgramestabhshed

17.1 In FYOO DC Intemahonal CI-DC Intemational Communications DeptCommumcatlons Will finish the produchon of an awarenessSpecialist, Haroldo Video on the Cerrado-Pantanal CorridorCastro, spent a week In which Will present to stakeholders thethe COrridor Region Corndor concept and Its purpose forfilming foolage for an biodiversity conservation and Improvementawareness Video of the quahty of hfe of locals, and the role

each personlinstltutlon has to play to makeIt happen, especially regarding theestablishment of the RPPNs and land useplanning and procedures (Cerrado andPantanal)

100 copies of the VIdeo Willbe dlstnbuted to keyaudiences by September2001

Video dlstnbutlon /ThIS activity Will behst and copy of paid with matchingfinal Video. funds from GEF

nocostl $16,000

1 7 2 INew FY01 Aclivlty The Emas FoundatIOn will host a February Strategy for EnVironmental4-P Workshop In conjunction With CI-Brazil Education and AwarenessBelo Honzonte and CI-DC Staff ThiS 4-P Campaign developed for theWill estabhsh a strafegy for the Emas Cerrado portion of theFoundahon's COrridor environmental ConidoreducatIon and awareness campaign(Cerrado)

Strategy planningreport

Lead Mana BarrosoStaff EmasFoundation, CI-BrasllResources Travel,Staff time,communication,supplies

no costl $4,000(SEMARH):

1 7 3 INew FY01 ActiVity The Emas Foundation Will produce pUbhcawareness and environmental educationmatenals as recommended by theFebruary 4-P Workshop. The matenalswill Include audiO malenal for a radiOcampaign and pnnter matenal for generaldlstnbulion. These matenals Will be madeavailable on the Emas FoundatIOnWebSite (Cerrado)

Matenals for campaignproduced by September 2001

Copies of pnnted Lead Mana Barrosomatenal, list of radiO Staff Emasstatlons. list of FoundatIon, CI-Bli3silInstitutions which Resources Travel,received pnnted Staff time,matenal communication,

supplies

Total

no cos

$311,851 $16,000

$4,000(SEMARHll

$20,000 $126,000

1.11 Biodiversity corridorassessmentcompleted (basehnelegal. biological,economic andsocialassessments/datagathered)

1,1 1 IData assessment andCOrridor deSign workshopto review all datacollected and plan nextsteps (beginning of Year3)

Program BrazilFY01 FINAL Comdor Impl Plan Bra,,110-6-00_Bra.. __ - - - - -

Data manager,LCU, TechnicalTeam. all datacollaborators

7- - - - - - - - - -

FYO 1 Conservation Intematlonal- USAID/Global Coopera!,ve Agreement Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Comdor)10-6-00 ~

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1.4 5 ITraining in biodiversityIssues and ecotourismoptions for the StateSecretary of Tourism

Program BraztlFYOl FINAL Corridor Imp! Plan Brazil 10-6-00_Bralll._ - - - - - 8- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation International - USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement: BlodlversrlY eorpdor Planmng and Implementation Program (Corndor)10-6-00

1.5 ICorridor projectteam ooeraltonal

1.61Research long-termfinanCialmechanisms

1.6 1 iDevelop positiondescription and recruitstaff member todevelop fundraismgstrategy, particularly forEMAS foundation, forcorridor area

1 71 AwarenessProgramestablished

~

Contmue designingawareness program for

1.7 1 IcOrridor

Program BrazilFY01 FINAL Corridor Impl Plan Brazil 10-0-00.. Brata __ - - - - -

LCU

9- - - - - - - - - -

$36,000$291,312

Program: Brazil

Oblectlve 2:

?rotected areas created, strengthened and extended

Year 2 Objective 2 level of effort:USAID $187,312

Earthwatch Institute $64,000TropIcal Wildemess $4,000

FundGEF

Total

FYOf Conservatron lntematlonal- USA1DIG/anal Cooperative Agreement aloolVelSlly Comdor Plannmg and ImplementatIOn Program (Corndor)10-6-00


Park demarcatedPark Infraslructure In placePark staff trainedEnforcement in place

~

2.1 JNew protectedareas (protectedareas, pnvatereserves,Indigenousreserves/terntones)are created

2 1 11 New FV01 Aclivlty

2 21 Protected area levelInfrastructure Inplace (park guards,posts, etc)

CI Pantanal, With support from CI's GIS IAt least 3 RPPNspeclahst, will assist in the creation of at declared by Septleast three RPPNs In the Pantanal comdor 2001area CI Pantanal will produce maps andreports and will assIst land owner In theIrapphcatlon for the estabhshment of anRPPN The maps will be produced basedon purchased sateltlte Images acqUired In

conjunction With CI GIS speclalisls(Pantanal)

Pubhcatlon ofRPPN creabon Inthe Diana Official

Lead Samuel Leite(CI - Panlanal GISSpeclahst).Resources purchaseof Images; staff time,travel (land & fly);GIS precIsion GPS,notary fees, supphes;communication;

$12,5861

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2 2 1 INew FY01 ActiVity Continue to bUild upon partnership WithEmas Foundation to Improvemanagement and Infrastructure. Thisyear's activity Will entail hlnng a ComdorAdministrative Manager 10 oversee theday-to-day operabons of the Foundation to!ensure future stablhty, halse With externalaccountancy firm, and enable thetechnical staff hired in Year One toconcentrate on the delegated technicaltasks. (Cerrado)

AdministrativeManager hired byDecember 2000.

TOR and contractfor AdministrativeManager

Lead: ManoBarroso Staff: EmasComdor Coordinator,CI-Cerrado Director,Emas DIrectorateResources: Stafftime

$11,904

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2 2 2 I(FYOO 2 2 2) In FV 00 Ctsupported Improvements to theInfra~tructure of the EmasFoundatIOn ThiS work was veryInitiated late In the fiscal year thiSactivity Will carry over into FY01

ProVide continued Infrastructure support,such as technical assistance andsoflwarelhardware purchase, andcomplete repairs to Emas FoundationbUilding, including electncal repairsstructural repairs repaired roof, officefurnishings. etc (Cerrado)

BUilding IEquipment andmodifications and software Installedsafety requirementscompleted byJanuary '01.

Lead: Mano Barroso.Staff. Englneenngconsultants,construction crewResources'construcbonsupplies. englneenngfirm staff lime

$9,707

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Program BrazilFY01 FINAL Corridor Impl Plan BraZil 10-6-00_Bra_._ - - - - - 10- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conserv3!I'Jn Intemational - USAID/Global Cooperative AgreePlent' Biodiversity Corridor Planning and Implementation Program (Corndor)10-6-00

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2.3lStrengthen orextend existingprotected areas

2.41 Develop andImplementmanagement plansfor new and eXistingprotected areas

2 4 1 INew FYOI ActiVity

CI Pantanal will support the installment of2 control posts at the entrances 10 the RIoNegro area (1 at AqUIdauana andRetlnnho and another at the FazendaEsperanca. The control posts will beeqUipped with communication systems,which will allow the post attendant tocontact local authontles, such as lheenvironmental police, and will supportlocal farmers as they address secuntyIssues. The control post at EsperancaFarm will Initiate the State ParkImplementation plan, and will be a sign ofcooperation with the community This willbe the first step towards implementing themanagement plan developed In activity2 4 (Pantanal)

CI Pantanal will support the Stategovernment in producing a managementplan for RIO Negro State Park Inconsultation with the State Secretary forthe enVIronment and the RIO NegroProducers Association, CI -Pantanal willdraft a Term of Reference and hire aconsultancy to produce the document(Pantanal)

Contract sign andterm of referenceby Jan 2001

Contract

Lead: RelnaldoLounval Staff: CIPantanal, RIO NegroProducersAssociation.Resources'Contracts; staff time;boat engine, fuel;supplies;communicationssystems;

Lead ReinaldoLounval Staff: CIPantanal, RIO NegroProducersAssociation, StateSecretary for theEnVironment.Resources: stafftime

$17,112

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2 4 2 INew FYOI ActiVity The consultant hired In 2.4 1 will performland and aenal assessments of the areaand obtain from local Institutions all thedata needed to provide him/her with thenecessary information to produce thedocument The document will reflect theconservation needs Of the Park as well asthe nelghbonng communitles.(Pantanal)

Management Plan IManagement Plancompleted by Sept2001

Lead RelnaldoLounval Flights,staff time; fuel, travel,per diem; copies;supplies; fieldsupplies,

$6,200 $4,0001

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Program BraZIlFY01 FINAL Comdor Impl Plan BrazIl1Q-6-00_Bralll._ .. - - - - 11- - - - - - - - - -

FYOI Conserval'un Intematlonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreem·,ol olodlverslty Corridor Planning and Implemenfatior Program (Comdor)10-<3-00 -":r

2 5 1 INew FY01 Activity PrOVide mfrastructure and specimens forlocal biological reference collections atFIMES and Fed. UniV of Galas. (Cerrado)

At least one ICollectionbiological referencecollecllon createdand staffed by endof Year 2.

Lead: Mario BarrosoStaff. COrridor staffResources. stafftime, equipment andmatenals

$5,883

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2 5 2 INew FYO1 ActiVity ProVide traming for Emas staff on crealion lone staff tramed In IStaff trainedof RPPNs, Vldeography analySIS and analySIS lechnlquesother tOPiCS as needed. (Cerrado) and creation of

RPPNs by June'01

Lead. Mana BarrosoStaff: Pantanalcorridor staff,Cerrado COrridorvolunteerResources. stafftime, travel

$1,169

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2.5.3 INew FYOI ActiVity PrOVide trammg for CI BraZil and COrridorstaff In landscape analYSIS to enable thecorndor team to perform assessments forthe potenllal creation of natural reservesDunng the training, eXisting satelliteImagery will enable staff to conduct afragment analySIS and iandscapeecological assessment, IndudlngIdentifymg appropnate vegetatIOnclassification scheme, vegelatlonmapping, and field validation (Cerradoand Pantanal)

At least five staff IStaff trained; maptrained In

landscape analYSISby end of Year 2.Baseline biologicaldata gathered anddigitized lOlacorndor map bySeptember '01

Lead: JohnMuslnsky, PauloGustavo andRemaldo Lounval.Staff: COrridor staff,CABS RegionalAnalySIS slaffResources: stafftime, travel

$11,866

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2.54 (FYOO Activity 1 1.2) In FYOO theCOrridor Launching Workshopwas held and all results wereobtained except for the reVisedmap of the Identified COrridor.The reVised map of the COrridorarea 's a follow-up deliverablewhich Will carry over Into FY01

Ct Pantanal In partnerShip With the StateSecretary for the Environment Will offer aVldeography and aenal photographytraining to techniCians from EmasFoundation, Catholic UniverSity, Terra SuI,CI Braslt and SEMA (Stale Secretary forthe EnVironment). As part of the training,overflights Will take place In Oct 2000 andImages Will be analyzed and validated.The target areas for the Iralnlng processWill be the recently established RIO NegroState Park and the headwaters of the RIONegro basm. ThiS type of Information ISan tmportant tool for analYZing land use,land tenure and forest fragments(Pantanal)

Training offered to IAttendance list and ILead. John Muslnsky10 people by Oct maps produced2000

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no cost $32,000

Program BrazilFY01 FINAL Comdor Impl Plan Brazil 106-00_Br__ ._ - - - - - 12- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 ConseJVatlon Intemallc'1al- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement BiodiversIty Comdor Planmng and ImplementatIon Program «( orl1dor)10-6-00 ~

2.61 Informationgathenng,Integration andanalysIs forprotected areacreation andstrengthening (newor targetedbiological, soc,al,legal andloreconomic data)

2.6.1 INew FY01 Activity

2 6.2 INew FY01 Achvlty

Conduct organizational reVIew of EmasFoundation to determine and Implementmore fiexlble and effective structure(Cerrado)

In partnership with EMBRAPA and theFederal University, CI Pantanal will host 2traInIng programs on bIodiversity. WildlifeconservatIOn and populallon ecologystudies at the RIo Negro and NhumlnmFarms The training will provide local MScstudents with Increase awareness andrespect for biodiversity of the PantanalThiS activity IS expected to occur everyyear as part of the newly Initiated researchsite at the RIO Negro Farm A result of histraining w,lI be a report containingabstracts of all short term researchprojects conducted during training(Pantanal)

OrganizallonalreView and newstructureImplemented byJune '01

60 attendees to 2trainings by Sept2001, report ofshort papers

New organlgram

Attendance Itst;report

Lead: Ary SantosStaff: Emas COrridorCoordinator. CICerrado Drrector,Emas Directorate,Legal ConsultanlResources: Stafftime

Lead RelnaldoLounval Staff CI·Pantanal,EMBRAPA,k FederalUniversity of MSResources perdiems, supplies, fuel,field suppltes, boatmaintenance;Insurance.

$525

$9,796 $10,000

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2 6.3 INew FY01 ActiVIty CI Pantanal w,lI support 2 biodiversityresearchers Identified In activity 2 6 3 byproviding them With mid·term researchgrants to conduct individual researchprojects at the RIo Negro Farm,addreSSing pnontles determined by RIoNegro Research AdVISOry Board, Inpartnership With the EWI (Pantanal)

One research grantIResearch grantsawarded by Ihe end and resultingof each training reports

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Lead: RelnaldoLourival and EW!Field Coordinatorgrant funds;accommodations;fuel; supplies;phonelfaxlmal!; travel

$9,920

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Program BrazilFYOl FINAL Corndor Impl Plan BrazJl10-fi..OO_Bra.. __ - - - - - 13- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intematlonal- USAIO:Global Cooperative Agreement Biodiversity Conido; Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor)10-6-00 ~

2 71 Develop andImplementawarenesscampaign for new oreXisting protectedareas

2 6.4 IThiS activity IS a continuallon ofFYOO Activity 2 6 1 In FYOO twoEWI VISIts occurred and werehighly successful It becameapparent, however, that for futurecollaboration, researchInfrastructure needs at the farmwould have to be met

CI Pantanal will continue an established EWI Field Attendance list ofpartnership Wllh EWI, by hosting a field Coordinator housed volunteers;coordinator hired by EWi to Increase the at Rio Negro Farm research report;number of pnncipai Investigators (Pis) and and CI Pantanal contract of fieldEWI field expeditions, using their unique office by Jan 2001; coordinatorvolunteer research scheme CI Pantanal 3 successful filedwill also support the current 3 pnnclpal trips conductedInvesllgators In developing their 5research field tnps planned for 2001 to theRIo Negro Farm These volunteersresearchers assist In the collection ofvaluable which result In the reports aboutbiodiversity and other ecological Issues ofthe RIo Negro area. (Pantanal)

Lead: RelnaldoLounval and EWIField Coordinator.

No costl $50,000 fromlEWI (Ford grant)

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2.71 INew FY01 Acllvlty

2.72 /New FY01 Activity

CI Pantanal will draft, develop andproduce 5000 (B&W 1 page) copies ofpopular texts targeting adults and childrenIn the Pantanal corndor ThiS was asuggested activity which resulted from theApnl 2000 "Corndor LaunChingWorkshop". The texts Will be wntten anddesigned to Increase awareness amongrural/urban population regarding thebiodiverSity comdor In the Pantanal,endangered species and Ileagal trade ofWild animals (Pantanal)

CI Pantanal Educabon Coordinator hired(see act 1 52) Will launch a "Preservationof the Pantanal Watershed" campaignThis conservatIon based educationcampaign will target two main audiencesat the local Pantanal schools (EscolasPanlanelras) CI Pantanal Will offersupport to the mUnicipality of AqUldauanafor the development and productIOn ofmaterials to stimulate young pantanelros10 take care of their enVIronment andplace greater value on their traditionsSecondly, CI-Pantanal Will work With theRIo Negro community, In an attempt tocontrol the effects of erosion/SiltatIOnwhich directly affects the swamps andnoodlng areas In coordlnallon With localschools, CI Pantanal Will draft andproduce wntten, audiO and Videomatenals, which WIll encurage children todiscuss new tOpiCS. The publications Willbe dlstnbuted by the EE coordInalion Inoutreach sessions (Pantanal)

5000 publicationsdlstnbuted In atleast 3 cities(AqUldauana,BOnito, CampoGrande, RIo Negroregion) by July2001

publicationdlstnbuted to allstudents of at least10 local schools bySept 2001 'I'

Dlstnbutlon list,publicallons

Dlstnbutlon list,publicatIOn

Lead. Manza Silva.Staft. CI-Pantana!.Resources: stafflime, publicationcosts, supplies,travel, phone/fax. CIBraSilCommunIcation staff

Lead. Marlza SilvaStaff CI-Pantanal,local schools.Resources. editing;printing: travel,supplies; researcher,staff time. mall.

$5,890

$15,128,

$4,000

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Program BrazilFY01 FINAL Comdar Impl Plan Brazil 10-6-00_ Br1lll __ - - - - - 14- - - '- - - - - - -

F'I'01 Conservation Intematlonal- USAID/GIDbal Cooperative Agreement Biodiversity Comdor P:::nnu)~ and Implementation Program {Camdar}10-6-00 ~

CI-Pantanal will launch the second part tol5 trainings held In 5 IAttendance listthe "Preservation of the Pantanal" cities by Sept 2001campaign, which will focus on the RioNegro community, CI-Pantanal fire controlCoordinator In conjunction with local firedepartments and local partners, Will trainat least five fire bngades In the regionproviding baSIC equipment and trainingThe training Will serve as a secondpurpose to called informatron about fire(meteorological, hotspots numbers,numbers of volunteers, to be incorporatedInto the Corndor database. (Pantanal)

Lead: EnkaGuimaraes Staff: CIPantanal, IBAMA,State Secretary forthe EnVIronment,Fire Brigades,EnVironmentalPolice. Resources:Travel, salary,firefightlng toots,collapsible liqUidstorage tank, fireswatter, fire pumps,airplane rental; tuel,publication deSignand pnntlng, radiOcampaign

Total $187,312 $64,000 $4,000 $36,000

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2 11 New protectedareas (protectedareas, prtvatereserves,Indigenousreserves/terntones)are created

2 21 Protected area levelInfrastructure Inplace (park guards,posls, etc)

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2 2.1 IOffice rental at Emas2 2 21 EqUipment purchase for Emas

2.2 3 IPurchase EqUipment andSupplies for RanchersAssociations

2 2.4 ISupport IBAMA in the

enforcement of the PantanalNational Park

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2321 Provide Technical Support for theStales' Protected Areas Syslems

2 3 11 Support Planning andImplementallon ofSlate/Federal/Municipal ProtectedAreas

2 31 Strengthen orextend eXistingprotected areas

Program BrazilFY01 FINAL Corridor Impl Plan BrazIl1Q.{)..OO_ Bra. __ - - - - - 15- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intemational- USAlc.-" ;t0~?j Cvoperatlve Agreement BiodIversity Comdor fllernl:1g alld Implementatlon Program (Comdor)10-6-00

2.3.31 Create an emergency fund tosupport prolected areas andleverage protectIOn

2.3 4 IPromote and supportenforcement of eXisting protectedareas

2.3.5 IAsslst Landowners In Reglstenngtheir Land as Legally RecognizedPnvate Reserves

23.6Support the Creation of Pnvatereserve Landowner ASSOciations

2.37 IStrengthen Public InstitutIOns thatReoulale Pnvate Reserves

2 41 Develop andImplementmanagement plansfar new and eXistingprotected areas

2 4 1 IDevelop and Implementmanagement plans for publiCconservatlOn unitsDevelop and Implementmanagement plans for Emas

2 4 2 1National Park

Assist Landowners In the DesIgnand tmplementatlon of Pnvate

2 4 3 1Reserve Manaoement Plans2 51 Capacity-bUilding at

the level of new andexlstlOg protectedareas

2.5 1 1Provide Techmcal Support for theSurveYing of Pnvate Lands forPotential Set-ASides

2 5 2 1Conduct Annual RanchersAssistance Seminars and PublishResults

2.61 Informationgathenng,Inlegratlon andanalysIs forprotected areacreabon andstrengthening (newor targetedbiological, social,legal and/oreconomic data)

261 IConduct RAP(s) In Targeted NewProtected Areas 10 DevelopManagement Plans

2 6 2 IConduct SOCioeconomicAssessment(s) to DevelopManaQement Plans

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Program BrazilFY01 FINAL Corrrdor Irrrpi Plan 8razI110-6-00_6ra _ - - - - - 16- - - - - - - - - -

Other assessments will beneeded, including spatialanalysis, social studies, etc.

264 IFacilitate and provide technicalsupport for research programamong Institutions (such asFIMES, IBAMA, ProCarnivores, EMBRAPA. IESA),incorporating all data gatheredinto corridor informationsystem.

2 71 Develop andImplementawarenesscampaign for new oreXisting protectedareas

27 1 IContlnuous development ofloolsto make stakeholders advocates

2.7 2 ICreate partnerships with localinstrtutlons, such as FIMES, toprovide forum for disseminationof enVIronmental Information,through such means asseminars, workshops, andprinted material.

2.7 3 IReview and update awarenessstrategies for protected areas

FY01 Conser....allon Intemahonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreenlsnt BIOGlverslty Corridor Planning and Implemenlall.:'Jn PrJgcam (Corridor)10-6-00

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Program BrazilFYOl FINAL Comdor Impl Plan Brazil 10-6-00_Bralll __ - - - - - 17- - - - - - - - - -

Program: Brazil

Oblective 3:

Core nuclei of protected areas established

Year 2 Objective 3 level of effort:USAID $19,149Match $0Total $19,149

Selecl and mOnitor thepnonty areas andconnecllons within thenuclear area to bestprotect biodiversity

FY01 Conservation Internatlonal- USA.ID/Globai CooperatIve Agreement Blodl\'I~r511y Corndor Planning and Implementallon Program (CorrIdor)10-6-00


Plan for restorallon and connecllon completed, presented, and Implemented

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3.21 Promoteenvironmentallycompatible aC(lvltles In

connections within thenuclei

3 31 Engage core nucleistakeholders for futurecomdor devetopment(workshops, lobbYing[promollng))

311 New FY01 ActiVity CI Pantanal will fix lab facIlity ofRIO Negro by repairing roofingand painting of small eXistinghouse, based on deSignproduced dUring the charetleBaSIC EqUipment will bepurcharsed to to process locallycollected samples. The lab Willalso be used as a momtonngstallon for local water qualitysources (Pantanal)

Structure repaired bySept 2001

EqUipmentpurchased andInstalled

Lead RelnaldoLourlval and EWIField CoordinatorStaff: CI-Panlanal,Earthwatch andpartnersResources paint,roofing, localsustalnablyharvestedmaterial, staff time,labor contract,travel

$17,732'

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3.31 New FY01 Acllvity Develop partnership With TNCto collaborate and ImplementJOint promotion of activitycompleted by eachorganization. (Cerrado)

Property model In IMOUagricultural bestpractices for biodiverSityconservation created byJuly '02 - In Year 3 ofagreement

Lead. Ary Staff"Emas CorndorCoordinator, ClCerradoCoordinator, TNCCoordinatorResources stafftime

$1,417

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3 41 Economic analysIs andpolicy level work andloranalysIs to Idenllfy landuses that meetconservation objectivesat nuclei level

Program BrazllFY01 FINAL Corndor Imp! Plan Brazil 1Q..6-0D_ Braziil __ - - - - - 18- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation lntematlonal - LJS,c..1D/G!obal Cooper.3.tlve Agreement. BIodIversity Comdor PlannIng and Implementatlon Program (Cornoor)10-6-00

3 51Awareness programdesigned and madeoperational

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3.618elect Indicator speciesand promote researchon them for Integrationat the corndor level.

3 711nformatlon gathering,Integraborl arid analysIsfor core nuclei (new ortargeted biological.SOCial, legal andloreconomiC data)

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Total $19.149

3.11 Select and momtor thePriority areas andconnections Within thenuclear area to beslprotect biodiverSity

3 1 1 IIdentlly crlbcal areas thatcontribute to the integrityand connectiVIty of corenuclei

3 1 2 IEnforce legal reservesand permanent protectedareas

3.1.3 IImprove lab

infrastructure at Rio

Negro

3.1 4 IImprove lab

infrastructure at

Nhumirim

3.1 5 ISet up lab at Acurizal

for water analyses

321PromoteenvironmentallycompalTble activities InconnectIons WIthin thenucleI

3.2 1 IEncourage theestablishment of finanCialIncentives to conservebuffer areas

Program BrazIlFY01 FINAL Comdor Imp! Plan BraZil 10-6-00_Bralll __ - - - - - 19- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation InternatIOnal - USAIG/Global Cooperative Agreement" Biodiversity ComdoJ P!a'1nrng and Implementatlon Program (Corridor)10-6-00

32.2 IPromote Initiatives suchas management of mtactecosystems, fire control,ecotounsm, marketmg ofsustamable extractedproducts

~stakeholders for futurecorndor development(workshops, lobbying[promoling))

3 41 Economic analysts andpolicy level work and/oranalySIS to Identify landuses that meetconservatIon objectivesat nuclei level

~wareness programdesigned and madeoperational

35.1 IDevelop lools 10 makestakeholders advocates

Conduct 2-3 4Pworkshops to developcommunicationsstrategies for thePantanal-Taquanwatershed and the

I Iraro/dO Caslro,

Pantanal-Rio Negro LCU, Corndorbasin, cerrado) coordinator

Disseminate matenalsand products from 4P

3.6//nfolTIlatlongathenng,-,workShops

Integration and analySISfor core nuclei (new ortargeted blOtoglcal,SOCial, legal and/oreconomiC data) [Pleasenote that 3 6 wasremoved and 3 7became 3 61

I361 I Identify trends In cattle

and agncultureproduction along thecorndor and ItS effects onconservatlon

Evaluate taxes andzoning policies to

362 lencouraQe conservation

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Program BrazilFY01 FINAL Corndor Irnpl Plan Brazil 10-6-00_B,a _ - - - - - 20- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intematlonal- USAID/Glcbal Coope;allve Agreement: Biodiversity Comdor PIl\10lng and tmplementatlon Program (Comdor)')' 10-6-00

Select Indicator speciesand promote research onthem for Integrallon at

36.4 Ithe corridor level

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Program BrazIlFYOI FINAL Corridor Impl Plan BraZil 10-6-00_B," __ - - - - - 21- - - - - - - - - -

Program: 8razil

Obiective 4:

Biodiversity comdor of conneded core nuclei established

Year 2 Objective 4 level of effort:USAIDMatchTotal

FY01 ConselVat"ln Irtamal10nal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement Blodll/erstty Comdor Planmng and Implementatll)r' PmfJraPl (Comdor)1O-6-CO


Plan for connection of core nuclei completedCompatible alternatives developed and demonstrated

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4.1 1Analyze biological, economiC,and social data to Identifyprionty areas for connectIon

4114.21 Design and promote policy

Intervenllons to alter economicdecIsIon-making environmentacross cOrridor

4214.31 Define and momtor biological,

social, and spallallndlcators forchange at the cOrridor level

4.314 41 Promote changes In legislation

Incompatible with cOrridor goalsIS completed

4.4.14.51 Develop markel connections fo

altematlve certifiedproducts/goods from thecorndor

45.14 611nformallon gathenng,

Integrabon, and analysIs forcOrridor aCllvltles (new ortargeted biological, social, legaland/or economiC data)

4614 71Awareness program designed

and made operatIOnal atcOrridor level

471

Program BrazilFY01 FINAL Comdor Impl Plan BrazI11Q..6-00_Braz. __ - - - - - 22- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Con52rvallon Intemational- USAID/Global CoopErall"e "greement· Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor)10-6-00

" 11 Analyze biOlogical, economic,and social data 10 Identifypnonty areas for connecllon

4 21 Design and promote policyIOtelVentlOns to alter economicdecIsion-making enwonmentacross corridor.

4.2 1 IPromote greenpolicies to local,regional and federaloffiCials

4 2.2 IStimulateImplementation ofgreen laxes (leMSecologlco)

4 31 Define and monitor biological,social, and spallallndlcators forchange at the corndor ievei

4 3.1 IDefine Informatlonnch Indicators forcorndor successAnalyze and applyInformation onpopulation geneticsfor mOnllorlng ofcorndor effiCiency

4 41 Promote changes In legislationIncompallble wllh corndor goalsIS completed

451 Develop market connecllons foriallemallve certifiedproducts/goods from thecorndor

4 5 1 IDevelop markelconnections toincrease organicproduction In

agncullure and cattle

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Program BrazilFYOI FINAL Comdo' Impl Plan 6,azlllo-6-00_6,..- __ - - - - - 23- - - - - - - - - -

FY(,l COnSSi"\!alion Internatlonal- USAID/Global Cooper~n..e Agreement- Biodiversity Corridor Planning and Impl2~nentatlon Program (Corridor)10-6-00

4.6linformatlon gathenng,Integration, and analysis forcorndor activities (new ortargeted biological, social, legaland/or economic data)

46 1 ICollecl biological,economiC, and socialdata to Identify pnorityareas for connection,mOnitor corndarsuccess and bUildlocal capacity

Select and collectInformation onpopulallon geneticsfor mOnltonng ofcorndor efficiencyConduct analysts ofeconomiC dataConduct

assessments ofalternative poliCiesand Implementfeedback Informalion",to policy deSign

4 71Awareness program deSignedand made operational atcorndor level

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I. THREATS

BASIC THREATS ASSESSMENT: GUYANA

NARRATIVE SUPPLEMENT TO THE GUYANA YEAR 2 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN10/5/00

The tropical forests of Guayana Shield are under threat of unsustainable exploitation throughlogging and mining and other economic development initiatives. In global terms, the nature ofthe threat to the forest is by no means unique; examples of destructive extractive activities inother tropical forests of the world are legion. Despite recognition of the regions importance to theinternational community, the natural and cultural diversity of the Guayana Shield has been facingincreased pressure from ill-planned, unregulated development activities in the last decade. Thecurrent economic conditions in the countries of the Guayana Shield have contributed to theauctioning off of parts of their forests for relatively little return. Recent studies done by CI andWRI have demonstrated the lack of revenues generated for the governments and localpopulations and the great amount of damage done to the ecosystems and cultures of the regionby current development practices. The integrity of the ecosystems of the region and thecommunities who rely on them for their survival are seriously threatened as a result of thesepractices.

GUYANA NARRATIVE - OCTOBER 5,2000CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Biodiversity Corridor Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor)Cooperative Agreement No. LAG-A-OO-99-00046-00

THREATS EFFECTS OPPORTUNITIESROOT CAUSES

Small Scale Gold Poverty Mercury in rivers - Monitor water qualityMining Global demand for Fishkill - Monitor mining sites

Gold High levels of mercury - Introduce Mercuryin fish recaptureIllness in people mechanismsErosion, Siltation, - Enforcementalteration of courses - Baselineof rivers; surveys/Aqua rapOpening of airstrips of river systems inand access points GuyanaPopulation increase in - Communitiesremote areas impacted byLoss of traditional polluted riverslifestyle in areas could be strongimpacted by mining lobbyOverhunting andfishing in areas whereminers congregate

Large Scale Gold Global Demand for Potential leaks of Develop bestMining Gold heavy metals and practices in mining

Poverty Cyanide into river Develop protectedsystems area in KanukuIncreased access to Mountainsremote areas by road Forge alliances withbuilding and airstrip majordevelopment companies/corporatioOverhunting and ns involved in miningfishing Assist with EIA's andIllness actively participate in

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EI review process

Road construction - Road built connecting Increased migration of Monitor developmentGuyana Road to the coast of Guyana Brazilians into along road; lobby for aBrazil/ lack of to Brazil Guyana regional developmentappropriate land-use Unplanned strategy; Assist inplanning/zoning to development and regional planning andmitigate threat squatting along road zoning along road

to Brazil Enforce border patrolOverhunting in remote in Guyana; Educateareas/reduced wildlife decision makers onpopulations impact of roadAccess to timber and development;other resourcesincreasedIncrease humanpopulation alonq road

Timber harvesting Global, national, and Clearing of land for Conservationlocal demand for timber and plywood Concession leased intimber production, erosion, Guyana

opening of roads and Economic analysis ofaccess to gold and timber industryother minerals. Roads Develop alternativeallow access for economicpopulation migration development projects

Monitor state of theForest using Satelliteimagery and digitaloverflights

Wildlife Trade - Poverty Populations of key Baseline populationoverharvesting Need for jobs species reduced studies of harvested

Global demand for pet Change in ecosystem wildlifetrade; insufficient dynamics Monitoring of wildlifesupport for tradeenforcement Increase enforcementmechanisms capacity at national

and local levelDevelopment ofecologically soundeconomic alternativesConservationAwarenessincreased

Overfishing and Population increase in Wildlife populations AquacuIture/fisheryhunting in site specific reduced developmentcommunities communities Investigation of

need for protein potential forsource; traditional use Introduction ofof fish poisons alternative proteinSale of fish to outside sources in areassources severely impacted

Education/AwarenessPromote ecologicallysound economicdevelopment proiects

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Lack of sufficient Young country Only 2 areas Participate in newlyprotected areas minimal history of protected in the established Protectedsystem in Guyana protection, country. No protected Areas Secretariate to

Lack of awareness of area legislation identify and promoteimportance of protected areasbiodiversity development;conservation and Work withimpact of communities, GOG,environmental and donor agenciesdegradation to identify financing

for protected areasand capacity building;Participate onKaieteur BoardConservationAwareness CampaignEnvironmentalEducation

Dependence of History of resource Government actively Introduction ofeconomy on natural extraction as main seeks foreign economic alternativesresource extraction, source of investment in the such as:

development mining and forest Ecotourism,sectors. ecoenterprise and

ConservationconcessionsIncreased donorsupport forecologically sounddevelopment andconservationinitiatives

Although CI cannot address all threats to biodiversity in Guyana, we are working on a number ofthose identified, either directly through project intervention, or indirectly through creatingawareness with decision-makers, the general public, rural communities and other stakeholders.This tactic, coupled with an increase in our environmental education programs within the schoolsand through summer camps, has proven successful over the years.

In the case of the proposed southern Guyana Conservation Corridor, we have been working tomitigate all existing and potential threats. We have held discussions and negotiations withVanessa Mining Corporation, the main large scale mining company active in the region, we haveengaged local communities in eco-enterprise activities that focus on sustainable harvestingtechniques and provide much needed income without ecosystem degradation. In the upcomingyear, we expect to increase our enterprise activities, by directly marketing products on theinternet and by identifying other products, such as cashew harvesting, peanuts, and developingcooperatives with existing enterprises such as the Rupununi Weavers Association, andexamining the potential for increasing nature tourism to the area.

In addition, the idea of the conservation concession was developed in direct response to thethreat of large scale timber concessions being purchased across the country. By analyzing theeconomic impact of logging and comparing it to conservation services, we have developed amodel in which we can provide financing to Guyana equal or greater to what they would makefrom timber, just by leaving the forest standing. We have made it through the first phase of thisby gaining the exploratory lease, and are hopeful to have a long-term lease granted within thenext year.

3

4

2. Co-financing for Year 2 of Guyana Corridor Planning and Implementation Program

- 3. Description of Corridor Activities funded with support from donors other than USAID.

Finally, throughout the project period and beyond we fully expect that additional threats andneeds will be identified. As always, we are committed to either providing assistance directly orcreating alliances and partnerships with other institutions to reach our conservation goals.

GUYANA NARRATIVE - OCTOBER 5,2000

ThankfUlly the GOG waived the need for an environmental impact assessment, however, a socialimpact assessment is of utmost importance and will be conducted as a preliminary step towardsestablishing the Conservation Concession. During the exploratory period, stakeholder meetingswill be held to examine Amerindian issues associated with the establishment of a ConservationConcession. These issues are a priority, and will be integrated directly into the Concession. Inaddition, we will be working with Amerindian communities to continue existing non-destructivetraditional land uses in the area while providing employment in the management of theConcession.

Further, a Conservation Concession will significantly catalyse Guyana's economic development.Concession fees will be paid to the GFC in accordance with the value of the standing timberwithin the Concession. According to the proposed agreement, CI will also invest an amountequivalent to, or greater than, what would have accrued from logging.

The TWPF will support several corridor building activities in Guyana - On of our most mostimportant initiatives is the recently granted exploratory timber concession in the Upper EssequiboRegion. In September 2000, The Government of Guyana (GOG) granted an exploratory lease toConservation International to evaluate the potential of a forested area in southern Guyana, tobecome the world's first "Conservation Concession." This Concession will enable CI to preservea segment of Guyana's forests in its natural state and compensate the country for theenvironmental services it provides to the world by leaving this area of forest intact. AConservation Concession is similar to a standard forestry concession, or Timber SalesAgreement (TSA), in that it follows the same legal model regulated by the GFC. The terms of theConcession, its size, fees, and stewardship, are all the same as in a traditional loggingConcession - the difference is that the forests within a Conservation Concession will bemaintained in a pristine state. At the same time, it will provide environmental services to theglobal community, such as protecting biological diversity and helping to curb global warming.

Through Cl's Tropical Wilderness Protection Fund (TWPF) and the support of the W. Alton JonesFoundation and others, CI has been able to match dollar for dollar USAID's support for theconservation corridor in Guyana. In Year 2 the TWPF will provide over 400,000 dollars to supportconservation projects such as the conservation concession in the proposed corridor region, andtraditional resource use mapping in the Kanuku Mountains. The W.Alton Jones Foundation hascontinued its support by providing 150,000 to cover most of CI-Guyana's office and staffingneeds.



Of course, long-term monitoring of the region is essential. It is with this in mind, that we areinitiating digital overflights and vegetation mapping of the proposed corridor. The informationgathered will result in detailed maps of the area identifying important ecosystems, areas ofhuman habitation and use, and potential threats. Further, the socio-economic surveys alreadycompleted in Year 1, will continue to be followed up in year 2 through consultations, awarenessinitiatives and participatory traditional resource use mapping. The mapping exercise will providedata on specific human resource use and allow community participation in design anddevelopment of any protected area which is imperative if we are to be successful in the long-term.

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ICONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL GUYANA NARRATIVE - OCTOBER 5,2000

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In addition to the conservation concession, the TWPF will support the development of ecoenterprise initiatives with communities living in and around the corridor area, promoteenvironmental education and awareness at the local and regional levels, as well as supportdetailed mapping of traditional resource use by communities living in the Kanuku Mountains.Knowing exactly what the area is that the communities consider traditional or utilize is ofimperative to the design of a protected area. The participatory process being developed to carryout this initiative will rely heavily on the input and design by community members themselves, andensure their participation in all levels of protected area development and management.

5

FY01 Conservation International· USAIDIGlobat Cooperallve Agreement Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Corridor)10-5-00

Program: Guyana

Objective 1:

Build biodiversity corridor planning and Implementation support framework: In Guyana. wehave detenmned that the first objective and Its actlVltles are cntlcal first steps In the comdor process,In partIcular the gathenng of baseline data, the establishment of a comdor Infonnatlon system andassembling the comdor proJec.t team


Comdor planning Unit In placeCommon agenda established amongConsultative process completed With key stakeholdersMemos of understandIng signed among key stakeholdersPrellmmary comdor assessment completedComdor-wlde threats assessment completedStakeholder analyses. conflict analyses, functional analyses completedInformation Infrastructure In placeData integratedInformation shanng mechanIsm developedTraining prOVidedCommunication strategy developed and functlonrngCommunication campaIgns aimed at ?? AudIencePlan for long-term fmanclal mechanism establishedFunding for comdor coordmated by donorsMOnitoring and evaluation procedures establishedTrammg proVidedEvaluatron, lessons and recommendations communicated to corridor project partners and deCISion-makersAnnualleamlng forum conducted

~

Year 2 Objective 1 level of effort:USAiD

I Wilderness Protection FundCI-Intercom

CI-GuyanaICI-WashTotal for Objective 1

263,399190,000

oo

453,399

1 11 BiodIVersity corridorassessmentcompleted (baselinelegal, biological,economic and socialassessments/datagathered)

111 MOUs with theSmithsonIan Institutionand CSBD have beenSIgned and accessgrated to eXisting data

MOUs Will be sought with TheUmverslty of Utrecht, the GuyanaForestry CommissIon and theUmverslty of Guyana The DC teamWill work on accessing Utrecht andSmithsonian data and specify fields ofdatabase to be created The Guyanabased team will work on accessingGFC and UniverSity of Guyana data

MOUs obtained byNovember 2000

MOUs PersonnelActiVIty LeaderCorndor ManagerBernardDeSouza, CI·WACons BiologyStaffResources Stafftrme

1 1 2 IFY01 New ActiVity Databaslng of herbanum specimens atlAII biological data below IDatabaseUniversity of Guyana by herbanum the fourth parallelstaff for InclUSion In comdor Information compiled by March 2001 Isystem Ali Informalion in corndor ') ,Information system WIll be utilized tomake deCisions regarding Importantareas tor biodiversity conservation,protected area boundanes. zOning, andareas In need of further research

PersonnelAcbvlty LeaderComdor ManagerBernardDeSouzaUnlverslty 01 Guyana StaffResources'Computer (3,000),HerbanumSupplies, travelTotal=7,600

9,424

- Program GuyanaFY01 FINAl Corridor Imp1 Plan Guyana 10-6-00G~ __ - - - - - 1- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intemallonal· USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement· Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Imptementatlon Program (Comdor)10-5-00

1 1 3 IFY01 New Acltvity

1 1 4 IFY01 New ActiVity

1 1 5 IFYO1 New ActiVity

Databaslng of all histone biological IAII biological datacollections available at the Smithsonian compiled by January,Instltulton for the corridor region and 2001other areas below the 4th parallel InGuyana As part of its MOU with CI.the SmlthsoOian will hire a databasespecialist to Input the data into thedatabase for use In the comdorInformation system

All relevant specimen data housed at IAII data compiled bythe Guyana Forestry CommiSSion will March 2001be databased for Input mto ComdorInformatton system by a UmversltyofGuyana database expert or internProcess to be detemuned In MOU withGFC that Corndor Manager Will bedevelopmg as stated In 1 1 1

AcqUire blologlcallnfonnatlon on IAll data compiled byComdor region from Umverslty of February 2001Utrecht tn the Netherlands As stated in1 1 1 An MOU with Utrecht UOIversltytn the Netherlands Will be developedbetween CI and Utrecht Director ofRAP program at Clln Washington WillIdentify relevant data and personel!necessary to database Infonnatlon forinclUSion 10 Comdor InformatIonSystem Top to Utrecht to collect dataIncluded

Database

Database

database

Personnel:ActlVlty Leader.RAP Director·Leeanne Alonso,Databasespeclahst atSmithSOnianInstitution In

Washington, D C.

PersonnelActiVity LeaderCorndor ManagerBernardDeSouza,databasespecialist or Internat University ofGuyana orGuyana ForestryCommission

Personnel ActlvtyLeader RAPDlrectorLeeanne Alonso.Umverslty ofUtrecht

1.240

5.349

Q-..9

1 1 6 IFYO1 New ActiVity Landscape Ecological assessment Willbe completed for corndor regionulthzlng digital vldeography andoverflights of the comdor SatellIteImagery will be purchased, aenalvldeogrpahy and field data for groundtruthtng of Image claSSification Will beaqlJlrcd Appropnate vegetatIonclaSSification scheme uesful formapping ecological commumtles andassessing biological pnolntes will bedeveloped CI Washington GISspeCialist and vldeography speCialistsWill carry out project A Forest EcologlsWith expenence In the Gwanas Will beIdentIfied to partiCIpate In overflightsand groundtruthlng

Landcover and I,andcover andvegetation data vegetation data andprocessed by September maps produced2001

') .

Personnel DCGIS Speclahst,Vldeographyspeclahst. CIGstaff, ForestEcol091stResources Stafftime, Internationaltravel. Use of GISequipment

45.940

- Program GuyanaFY01 FINAL Corridor Impl Plan Guyana 10-6-00GU,. __ - - - - - 2- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservallon Intematlonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement· Biodiversity Cornaor Planning and Implementation Program (Comdor)10-5-00

1 17 The Initial SOCIOeconomic survey ofcommunitiessurrounding KanukuMountains completed

CIG will distribute Socia-EconomicSurvey Report to commUnities forreview through ToushauCouncil/Leadership Meetingrepresenting all commUnities in theKanuku Mountain Region Gaps Indata will be Identified through aparticipatory process involVingcommunities Gaps Will be filled dunngtraditIonal resource-use mappingproject and addltional communityconsultation and awareness activities

SocioeconomIc surveyresults reviewed byNovember 2000

PersonnelActiVity LeaderGuyana ProgramDIrector - NeVilleWaldron, CI-GStaff andcommunityrepresentatives,GuyaneseAnthropologistResources: Stafftime. copies ofreport

12,003

~

') .

1 1 8 IFYOI New ActiVity A Resource-use mapping specialist will Resource·use mappingbe Identified and hired CI-G Will specialist hired byfacilItate a tradItional use mapprng December 2000 Imtlalprocess In the communities communities Identifiedsurrounding the Kanuku MountainS If and mapping processany, gaps In the socro-economlc data begun by March 2001wll1 be filled dunng the mappingprocess

Traditional Resource Personneluse-maps completed ActIVity Leadersfor IdentIfied Director. GUlanascommunitIes by Program - LisaOctober 2001 Famo/are and

Guyana ProgramDirector - NevilleWaldron. CI-Gstaff, Resource-use mappingspecialist,communityrepresentatives

150,000

1 1 9 IFYOI New ActiVity

1 1 10 IEconomic analySIS oftimber Industrycomplete AwaitingoffICial report andanalySIS

CIG WIll engage the Govemment ofGuyana and NRMP In the process ofacqulnng map of titled Amenndlanlands FaIling acquIsItion from thegovernment, examine alternativeoptJons of acqUiring titled landInformation

Final report on the economIc analysisof timber mdustry In Guyana Will beaqUired by CIWashlnglon GUianasprogram staff from CI Wash109IonChief Resource Economlcst to ensureavailability to CI-G Staff

Government and NRMP IMap of titledapproached by Amenndlan LandsNovember 2000

Report submitted to CI-GI Report available toby November. 2000 CI-G Staff

personnel ACtiVityLeader ComdorManagerBernardDeSouza, CI-GStaff ResourcesStaff lime

PersonnelACllvlty Leader CiWashington ChiefEconomist Richard RiceResources Stafftime

- Program GuyanaFYOl FINAL Corridor Impl Plan Guyana 10-6·00GU. __ - - - - - 3- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservallon Intematlonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement· Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Co-ndor)10·5-00

1 1 11 IYear 1 Workshop washeld In August FYOO

, 211ntegrated ConidorInfonnatlon Systemdesigned andoperational

In AugusUSeptember Year 2 of the Meellng convened byproJect, CI-Guyana and CI - September 2001Washington Staff members will Planned acliviliesconvene a Vear 2 ReView meeting and developed for Year 3 ofYear 3 Planmng In Guyana to review the projectall activities and results and todetennine the continued viability of thecorridor concept and adapt the strategyand/or planned activities If necessary(Kanuku Mountain and UpperEssequlbo Regions)

FY02Implementation Plan(completed andapproved)

PernonnelACtiVity LeaderComdor ManagerBernardDeSouza. DCTechnical Team,AgreementManagementTeam, CI-GuyanaComdor Team. CIWA GuyanaComdor Team 5Intematlonaltravel toGeorgetown forfive days

~....sI

1 31Comdor leamlngsystem/adaptivemanagement In placeand operational

121 Comdor InfannatlonSystem designoutstanding

CI-WA GIS SpeCialist Will developdatabase format which accommodatesmtegrdtlon of all databaslng acllvltlesof comdor projects The format will bedisseminated to Corndor participantsfor Input of data New data Willcontinue to be gathered and Input Intodatabase by CIG database manager

Database templatecompleted by December2000

Database template,Initial InfonnatlonInpulmto databasetemplate

'1 •

PersonnelActiVity LeaderDC GIS SpeCialist- John Muslnsky:CI-GGISSpeclalisUdatabase managerResourcesTravel,dataacqUISition(addilionalmaps/satelliteImagery)computer

33,412

, 3 1 IFY01 New ActiVity CI-Guyana Comdor Manager will IComdor Manager tralnedlMomtonng plan IPersonnelanend an M&E training In CI's Strategic In M&E by December finalized by February Act,vlly LeaderManagement Approach In Washington, 2000 2001 Corndor ManagerDC In October 2000 Bemard DeSouza

Resources Travel

2,232

, 3 2 IFYO1 New Actlvlly

1 3 3 IFYO1 New ActiVity

Corndor Manager, CI-Guyana ProjectsManager to attend Comdor Planntngmeeting, Flonda - Spnng 2001 ThiSmeeting Will focus on shanngmfonnatlon on global comdor projects.and continued tramlng on project cyclemanagement and M&E

CIG Comdor Manager. ComdorTechmcal Team, and CI WashingtonM&E Staff Will develop a mOnltonngplan for Guyana Corndor InItial work.will be developed dunng trainingsessions Identified In ActiVIties 1 3 1And 1 32

Comdor Manager and IMeetIng attendedProjects Manager attendcomdor meeting

M&E Plan developed IGUIdellnesand dIsseminated byJanuary 2001

PersonnelActIVIty leaderComdor ManagerBemardDeSouza,Projects Manager

Personnel U Stechnical leam,Comdor ManagerResources Stafftime

3.224

- Program GuyanaFYOl FINAl Corrrdor Impl Plan Guyana 10-6-00GU. __ - - - - - •- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Internatlonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement- Blodl,erslty Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Corndor)10-5-00

l'I\-...9

1 41 Participatory planningand Implementationframework andprocess established

141 FY01 New ActIVIty October 9-14 CI-G will participate In aProtected Areas development TrainingWor1<:shop Tr~unlng will include anIntroduction to protected areas,PartiCipatory Rural Appraisalprocesses, and steps to establishingprotected areas Other topics to becovered are, planning, zonIng,community consultation andparticipatIOn, sustainable fundingstrategies and management IssuesDunng the final day of the training, CIGWill finalize a strategy for engaging therelevant stakeholders (Including GOG,COmmUnities, and regionaladmlnlstralton)

Training of CI Staffcompleted by November2000 Consulalionstrategy completed byDecember 2000

Traimng TOR andWorkshop notesInternal consultationstrategy document

') ,

PersonnelActivity LeaderGUlanas ProgramDIrector - LisaFamolare. CI-GStaff. Park PlanGerry Patten, CIWashingtonComdorStaffResources StaffTime

13,502

1 4 2 IFY01 New ActiVity CIG Will hold consultabons with with Consultations with all Minutes ofstakeholders (such as stakeholders (community consultationGOG,commumtles, regional and government meetings andauthontles,others) to develop a complete) 5 meetings tradItional resourceparticipatory planning with community leaders mapping processstrategy/approach with stakeholders to and regIonal authonties scheduledpromote the creation of a protected In region 9, continuedarea of the Kanuku Mountain region consultation with GOGThiS strategy Will focus on generating and other relevantsupport for biodiversIty conselVatlon, stakeholders,NGO's etccommunity resource management, andprotected areas

PersonnelActivity leaderGuyana ProgramDirector - NeVilleWaldron, CIGuyana staffResources,Domestic travel,field gear, sUlVeymatenals, pnntlngcosts

57,040

143 Inlbal meeting WIth IPending a deCISIon from VanessaVanessa MIning held In regardIng where they plan to pursue aYear 1 ConcessIon, CI·G Will develop an

appropnate strategy to addresspotential conflicting mterests (Ifnecessary)

If mining IS to take place IMeeting minutes,In Kanukus by Vanessa strategy documentMIOIng Company,meetings Will be held beheld between CIG, CICenter for EnvironmentalLeadership In BUSiness(CElB), and VanessaMining to diSCUSSpotentIal mItIgation etc

PersonnelActiVity LeaderCorndor ManagerBernardDeSouza, CI-GStaff and CenterFor EnVironmentalLeadership In

BUSInessResources: Stafftlme,travel

o

- Program GuyanaFY01 FINAL Corndor Impl Plan Guyana 10-6-00G" __ - - - - - 5- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intematlonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement- Blodlverslly Comdor Planning and Implem"ntallon Program (Corridor)10-5-00

1 61 Research lang-Iennfinancial mechanisms

1 71 Awareness Programestablished

151

161

A Comdor Coordinatorhas been hired In Year1

A financial mechanismto sustain theconcession and theKanuku MountainsProtected Area stili tobe developed

CIG Comdor Manager and CI-DCAgreement Management Team willoversee Implementation of corndorproject Management will Include siteVISits to field projects on a regUlar basisto ensure projects are accomphshlngIntended results and are runningsmoothly Further, Comdor Managerwill QVeC56e the development ofprogress reports, bUdgets andexpenditures related to comdor project

CI's Conservation Finance Specialistwill conduct an analySIS of long-termfinanCIal mechanIsms for protectedareas and conservation concessIons(Kanuku Mountain and UpperEssequlbo Regions)

Site visits and progressreports

AnalYSIS completed andrecommendationsprOVided by December2000

Progress reportscompleled, tripreports

') .Report

Personnel'Corridor Manager

PersonnelActiVIty Leader:GUlanas ProgramDIrector, UsaFamolare, CIWashington'sConservationFinance Specialist

Legal CounselGuyana USAID Guyana MIssionDIrector, USEmbassyEconomistResources' Stafftime Internationaltravel

Total

64,0251

o

263,399

$40,000

190,000 o o

'":J~

- Program GuyanaF1'01 FINAL Corndor Impl Plan Guyana 10-6-00GO. __ - - - - - 6- - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intematlonal- USAIDfGlobal Cooperative Agreement Biodiversity Corridor Plann,ng and Implementation Program (Comdor)10-5-00

~-....Q

1 11 Biodiversity comdorassessmentcompleled (baselinelegal, biological,economIc and socIalassessments/datagalhered)

1 211ntegraled comdorinformation systemdesigned andooeratlonal

1 31 Comdor leamlngsystem/adaptivemanagement In placeand operational

132

133

1 41 Participatory planningand Implementationframework andprocess established

1 51 Corridor proteclleamoperational

1 61 Research long-tennfinanCial mechamsms


'I '

Develop an adaptIve management Plan/ Plan developed and /comdor MOnitoringfor the comdor project disseminated by end of and Evaluation Plan

Year 3Develop a strategy for evaluation IPerformance mdlcators Icomdor Monitonngbased on performance Indicators and evaluation strategy and Evaluation ptan

developed by end ofYear 3

- Program GuyanaFY01 FINAL Corridor Impl Plan Guyana 10-6 00GC _ - - - - - .. - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intematlonal- USAIDfGlobal Cooperative Agreement Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Comdor)10-5-00

Program: Guyana

Obiective 2:

Protected areas created, strengthened and extended:

Year 2 Objective 2 level of effort:USAID

Tropical Wilderness Protection FundCI-Intercom

CI·Guyana/CI-WashTotal for Objective 2

44,240105,000

oo

149,240

'j'


Park demarcatedPark Infrastructure In placePark staff trainedEnforcement In place

:j-

2 11 New protected areas (proteded areas,pnvate reserves, Indigenousreservesltemtones) are crealed

211 A complete proposalhas been drafted bulsubmission to IheGOG IS an-hold unlllthe polillcal situationIS favorabte.

CIG to wnte a tetter to GOG rellerallng Letter senI by Memo and letter Personnel'commitment to support the development of a November 2000, 10 Office of Ihe ActIVItyKanuku Mountain Protected Area. Letter 10 be presentations Preslden!. Leaderfallowed-up with a VISit from CI Guyana scheduled, mlnules of ComdorDirector NeVIlle Waldron (Kanuku Mountain meetmgs scheduled meellngs Manager -Region). Additional presentations and Bernarddiscussions Will be held with relevant DeSouza, CI-government and nan-government agencies 10 GuyanaGeorgetown such as the EPA, Protected comdor teamAreas Secretanate, Office of the President, Resources'Guyana Firsl, members of the aPPOSition Staff timeparty, etc.

3,720

2.1 2 IThe application for an CI Chief Resource Economist and relevantexploratory lease staff WIll conduci economic valuallon of the(conservatron timber within the proposed concession areaconcession) has been The data gathered Will be used to negotiatesubmitted lang-term lease feesApplicatIOn feessubmitted to GFC

Valuationcompleled byFebruary 2001

Report anValuation oftImber In

exploratorylease area

PersonnelAcllvllyLeader. ChiefResourceEconomlstRichard RiceConsultant ResourceEconomIstManager,TropicalWildernessProlectlonFund LegalCounsel-US..LegalCounsel,GuyanaResourcesSiaffllme,mtematlonaland domesllcIravel,applicalton fee

o 20,000

CIG Director and CI Washington Chief IEslablishment ofResource Economist Will continue negotiations long-termfor long-Ierm exploratory lease of conservationconservation concession In the Upper concessionESSlqUlbo regIon with the Government

2 1 3 1New FYO1 Acllvlty

- Program Guyana~~~mdQ"GUyan __ - - - - - -

Timber SalesAgreement

-PersonnelActIVityLeader ChiefResourceEconomist Richard Rice

-o

-15,000:

- - - - - -

)FY01 Conservatlofl In!ernatlonal- USAID1GIobal Cooperative Agreement 810dlverslty Comdor Planmng and Implementation Prvgram (Comdor)

10-5-00

2.4.1 IWe are currently ICIG staff, CI Washlnglon Chief Resource IPlan drafted and Management Personnel: 1 01 50,000

developing the Economist and relevant CI staff Will develop a submitted to Plan Activitymanagement plan for Management Plan for conservalJon Guyana Foreslry Leader: CIthe Concession area. concession. (Upper EsseqUibo Region) Commission by Chief

June 2001 ResourceEconomist -Richard Rice,relevanteconomistslaff,CIGDirector, CIGulanasRegIOnalProgram I I I 1.1* \ ... I. I", I ... I.

Director,GuyaneseForestryConsultantResources.Slaffllme,internationaland domestictravelmapping/GIS

LI Iequipment use

I I L2.5 Capacity-bUilding at the level of new

and eXisting protected areas2 6 InformalJon gathenng, Integration and

analYSIS for protected area creation andstrengthening (new or targetedbiological, SOCial, legal and/or economicdata)

2.6.1 IFYO1 New AcllVlty ICIG, Resource Economist and Guyanese Assessment Report and Personnel: I 01 20,000

Anthropologist to conduct social Impact completed and Recommendallo Chiefassessment of exploratory lease area. recommendations ns ResourceRelevant communities living near the Included In EconomIst,concession area Will be Identified and management plan CIG Director;consultalJons Will be held With communities. to be drafted by CIG CorndorFindings and recommendations Will be September 2001 Manager,Included In the management plan Guyanese

AnthropologistResources:Staff time;travel, fieidsupplies

~~

- p~~~ana~:~ComdO_GUYan_ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Internatlonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement' Biodiversity Corndor Planning and Implementation Program (Collidor)10-5-00

~~

26.2 FY01 New Acbvlty Initial scoplng excerslZe to Idenbty location forrapid biological assessments, access toremote areas, and potential participants. TheInlbal assessments will be completed m eitherFebruary or August of 2000. RAPs will bescheduled for years 3-5

AssessmenUscopln IReport andg tnp completed by RecommendatioSeptember 2001 Ins

Personnel.RAPDirector;CIGstaff;UnlversltyofGuyana;SmlthsomanInstitution;communtl8s

22,490

2 71 Develop and implement awarenesscampaign for new or eXlstmg protectedareas

27.1 IFY01 New Activity At the request of communities in Kanuku Training workshops IMinutes ofMountain Region, Protected Areas Training and diSCUSSions meetIngs andworkshops to be held ,n each of the held ,n Region 9 reportcommuOitles In Region 9 by CIG ThiS activity January-Septemberwill follow acbvlty 1 4.1 The goal of thiS 2001training IS to Introduce the concept ofProtected Areas to the communibes so thatthey can partiCipate meaningfully InsUbsequent diSCUSSions regardIng the creation,of a Protected Area In the Kanuku MountamRegion.

Personnel.ActiVityLeader:GuyanaProgramManagerSandy Gnffithand COrridorManagerBernardDeSouza, CIG Staff and CIG COrridorandCommunlcat,ons Staff

Total:

18,030

44.240 105,000 o o

Program Guyana

~:~omdOr_GUyana_

Continue data gathenng.consultatlons,educatlon and awarenessactiVities, and negotlalions with thecommuntlles surrounding the KanukuMountain regIon and relevant governmentagencies and other stakeholders

Memoranda ofUnderstandmgrecognizing theproposed parkboundanes andresource use nghtswith localcommunities by theend of Year 2.

2 11 New protected areas (protected areas,pnvate reS8IVes, Indigenousreserves/terntones) are created

-

211

- - - - - - -

Personnel.CIG Staff, CIWashingtonDirector,ResourceEconomicsProgram,Team ofGuyaneseAnthropologistandmdlgenousrepresentatives (to beIdentified)Resources'Internationaland domestictravel. fieldgear, sUlveymatenals,pnntlng costs

- - - - - - -, -

FY01 Conservation Intematlonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement. Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Implemeniatlon Program (Comdor)10-5-00

2.12

2 21 Protected area level Infrastructure In

place (fJ§'k guards, posts, etc2.2 1

2 31Strengthen or extend eXisting protectedareas

23.1

2 41 Develop and Implement managementplans for new and eXisting protectedareas

241

242

2 51 Capacity-building at the level of newand eXisting protected areas

2.51

USing the bIOlogical, socioeconomic,traditional resource use mapping, landcoverdata, and consultation results collected InYears1-2, submit a formal proposal for theestablishment of a Kanuku Mountainsprotected area to the Government of Guyana.

Invest In Infrastructure for the Kanukuprotected area and EsseqUibo conservalJonconcession Including guard and monitoringstaff trained.

Assist the Govemment of Guyana In the legalestablishment of the Kanuku protected area(launching, legislation, boundary demarcation,etc)

Develop management plan for Kanukuprotected areaAssist the Government of Guyana In theImplementation of the Kanuku protected area(technical assistance).

PrOVide training for park managementoperations

Personnel: CtGuyana Staff,U.S. TechnicalteamResources'Staff time,Inlernatlonaltravel,workshop,publicationand printingcosts

\1....s

-Program. Guyana_ ~~~mdOr_GUyan.. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intematlonal- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement Biodiversity CorrJdor PlannlnQ ana Implementation Program (Comdor)10-5-00 Q.

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2.6l1nformation gathering. integration andanalysIs for protected area creation andstrengthening (new or targetedbiological, social, legal and/or economiCdata)

2.6.1

262

2 71 Develop and Implement awarenesscampaign for new or eXisting protectedareas

271

Conduct rapid biological assessment of theKanuku MountaIn region.

Continue traditional resource-use mappingexercise for the Kanuku Mountain region.

Continue implementation of communityawareness and education strategy developedIn Year 2

BIOlogicalassessmentcompleted andresults recorded,analyzed anddisseminated byend of Year 2

Communitymapping exerCisecompleled andmaps published anddisseminated bythe end of Year 3.

Personnel:Director,RapidassessmentProgram(RAP) RAPTeam Leader,RAP TeamAssistant,Tribal/CommunltyCoordinator,GuyanaProjectCoordinator,Director,GUianasRegionalProgramResources.Staff time.Internationaland domestictravel, fieldsupplies.aenaloverflights,publicationand pnntIng

Personnel CIWashingtonDirector,ResourceEconomicsProgram,Team ofGuyaneseAnthropologistandIndigenousrepresentatives (to beIdentified)

- pro~~na~:~__mdo"GUYan" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Program: Guyana

Cbiective 3:

Coee nuclei of protected areas established


Tropical Wilderness Protection FundCl-lntercom

CI-GuyanaICI-WashTotal for Objective 3

85,348118,500

9,000o

212,848

FYOI Conservation Intemallonal- USAIDIGlobal Cooperative Agreement Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Comdor)10-5-00


Plan for restorallon and connection completed, presented, and Implemented

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3.11 Select and mOnitor the priorityareas and connections withmthe rluclear area to bestprotect biodiverSity

3 21 Promote environmentallycompatIble actiVIties In

corndor buffer zones321 Completed. NapI

based enterprisespecialist hired

CIG Conservallon Enterprise Expert Will Clear picture of which Report Personel!.survey eXisting organizations dellvenng organization are working In the completed ActiVity leaderservices related to Enterprise region and what they are outlining CIGDevelopment 10 Region 9 Explore the domg to promote enterpnse organlzallons, ConservallonpOSSibility for collaboration and development. Potenllals for their actlvilies EnterpriseInformallon sharing In Critical busmess collaboration mdentlfied by and potential Expert - Susanareas, ie market development and December 2000. EqUipment for Stone; CIGtramlng AcqUire appropnate equipment purchased{Satelllte phone, collaboration In Director,to faCIlitate ConservatIon Enterpnse communications fees, meeting needs ConservationDevelopment. computer, printer, solar power of enterprise Enterprise

source) development 10 Program, CIGregIon 9 Conservation

EnterpriseCoordmator;CIG Director.

10,602 40,000

322 New FY01 ActiVity CIG Conservation Enterprise Expertworking WIth commumtles andmdlviduals 10 Region 9 will Identifylocation of eXlstmg regional enterpnseaellvltles and Identify needs \0 Improvetheir bUSiness capacllies What are thepotentials of engaging othercommunities 10 partlclpatmg In theenterpnse acllvity?

Enterprises Identified andformat for workshopdeveloped by December 2000

Reports oneXistingenterpriseactivity andproposedagenda forworkshop

Personell:ActiVity leader'CIGConservationEnterpriseExpert, SusanStone; CIGDirector,ConservationEnterpriseProgram; CtGconservationenterpriseCoordinator

1.680 10,000

Program Guyana_ ~~_OrndO(_GUyanC'_ - - - - - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intemalional- USAID/Global Coooeralive Agreement· Biodiversity Comdor Planning and Imolementatlon Program (Comdor)10-5-00

3.23 New FY01 Aclivlty In conjunction With communityconsultalions and resource mappingaclivltles, CIG ConservatIOn EnterpriseExpert and ConservatIOn enterpnseCoordinator will conduct needsassessmentslresource analYSIS In

commUnities surrounding KanukuMountains for conservatIon enterpriseactlvllies Identify addJllonalcommunities With desire/potential forconservation enterprise actiVities.Idenlify entrepreneurs/group managersto attend training workshop on bUSinessdevelopment to be held In region 9

Potential conservationenterprise activities identifiedIn addItional communitiesIdenlified In consultationprocess. Preliminary plandeveloped for Initiatingenterpnse actiVities In 3additional communities byApn12001.

Report ontargetcommunity'sconservationenterpnsepotentia!.CompletedbUSiness plansfor newenterpriseaclivltles

Personel!. CIGDirector,ConservatIonEnterpnseProgram; CIGConservatlonEnterpnseExpert andCoordinator;CIG Director.

o 5,000

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3.24 New FYO1Aclivlty CIG Conservalion Enterprise Expert Illst of pOSSible fundingand Conservation Enterpnse opportunities developed byCoordinator Will explore other long-term December 2000funding sources for the development ofconservation enterpnse Inillatlves In

Region 9.

Report onavailablefundingresources

Personnell'ActiVity leaderCIGConservatIonEnterpnseExpert - SusanStone; CiGDirector,ConservationEnterpnseProgram, CIGEnterpnseCoordinator

1,550

3.31 Engage core nucleistakeholders for futurecorndor development(workshops. lobbYing[promoting))

3 41 Economic analysIs and policylevel work and/or analysIs toIdentify land uses that meetconservatIon objectives atnuclei level

32.5 New FY01Aclivity CIG to conduct one 2 day workshop foreXisting enterpnses and potentialenterpnses In Region 9 offenng trainingIn conservation enterpnse concepts,bUSiness formation, marketdevelopment, resource management.cash management, and communitypartICipatIon. and bUSinessaSSOCiations Evaluations deSigned toIndIcate level of awareness of bUSinessIssues resulting from workshop, andfurther training needs

Awareness of Conservation Workshops Personel!.Enterpnse pnnclples and basic conducted ActiVity leader.bUSiness concepts raised for Report on CIGeXisting and potential results Conservationentrepreneurs/group completed Enterprisemanagers In Region 9 Recommendali Expert; CIDCAdditional training needs ons for further ConservationIdentified through analySIS of tralOlng Enterpnseevalualions by February 2001. developed. Program. CIGMeetlOgs arranged Wllh 2 MeetlOgs With Director;eXlstlOg enterpnses to develop enterpnses Corridorgoals and obJeclives for further held and Managerdevelopment, and bUSiness bUSiness plansplans to achieve Identified completedgoals by April 2001.

6,870 10,000

Program Guyana_ ~~~nidOr~Uyana_ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservation Intemalional- USAID/Global Cooperative Agreement· BIOd"erslly Comdor Planning and Implementation Program (Colnd'Jr)10-5-00

Strateglzlng meeting to be held In IMeeting held by IStrategy I~ersonnel CI-I 5,431Georgetown to develop approach to November2000 documentrural environmental educallon and Educatlon/Progcommumty awareness raIsing. ram Manager·

Sandy Gnffith:CIGcommunications Coordinatorand Enterpnsedevelopmentstaff, CtWashingtonIntematlonalCommumcatlons speCialist,two regionalrepresentatives.andacommumtyeducationexpert. MInistryof EducationResourcestravel,accommodatlon, per diem forregional reps

Personnel: CIGI Oh15.000352 IFY01 New ActiVity IBased on the strategy developed in Matenals developed by March education and1.7 1, appropnate educallonal and 2001 awareness Educationawareness matenals will be developed matenal Coordlnator/Prfor hinterland audience. POSSible ogrammatenals to be developed could ManagerInclude' environmental colonng book, Sandy Gnffith,comic book, story boards, and a mobIle CIGCommunlc

biodiverSity display The goals of the atlonsmatenals Will be to raise awareness of Coordinator I I 1* I. b, I .. I,..

biodiverSity Issues, the benefits of and Enterpnseprotected areas and sustainable Staff,enterpnse. Intemallonal

Communications Resources

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353 ITeacher training Conduct two environmental educallonal Conduct two Environmental IAttendanceSeminars have been training workshops in regIOn 9 (Annal education workshops focusing List; seminarsuccessfully held In and Lethem) to. 1) Introduce on bIOdiversity conservallon by reportsRegIOns 1 through 7 educational matenals to the September 2001 (Annal,In FYOO cOmmUnities, 2) develop a program of Lethem)

outreach uSing teachers, and 3)develop a mOnltonng plan

Personnel CI·G EducationCoordinatorand LocalEducationprofessionalsResourcesMatenals (asper 1 7 2), StafflTime, Travel,Accommodatlon, per-diem

Program Guyana_ ~~COmdO_GUyan_ - - - - - - - -

16,785'

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3.54 FY01 New Activity Establish a resource center at CI·Guyana's office which can be accessedby students and members of thegeneral public to broaden thelfunderstanding of envrronmenlal issuesbeyond sanrtatlon, and to IncludebIOdiverSity conservation. ThiSresource center Will house matenalsrelevant to conservation of biodiverSityIt Will also be accessed by CI·Guyanastaff, government agencies and NGO'sand utilized as a resource for researchon international conservation Issuesand projects.

Resource·Center opened topubliC by February 2001

List ofpublicationsprocured

Personnel:ActiVity Leader:CI·G EducationCoordlnator/ProgramManager:Sandy GnfflthResourcesWnttenMalenals,Videos,Publications,Bookshelves,JournalSubscnptlonsetc.

~

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355 Summer Camp In

Georgetown held rnFYOO • not IncludedIn onglnal workplan

Two Summer Camp Sessions will be ITwo separate camp sessions IAttendanceheld (one In Region 9 and one Region held by September 2001 with Lists4) The Summer Camp program will be approxlmately35-40 studentsIn keeping With the cUrriculum enrolledestablished rn 1.7.1. POSSible actiVitiescould Include "Make you own BalataFlgure"(which demonstrates eco·product development), skits fOCUSing onbiodiverSity, songs and poems, a final"challenge proJect" (FYOO challengeproduct asked the kids to wnte lettersabout the Importance of biodiverSity tothe PreSident of Guyana), featurearticles for newspapers, lectures for theschool assembly, etc.

Personnel'ActiVity LeaderCI·G EducationCoordlnator/ProgramManager·Sandy Gnfflth,CI-GStaff.RegionalEducatorResources.Travel,Accommodatlons,Miscellaneouseducationalmatenals,Schoolsupplies etc

16,213

NATIONAL·LEVEL AWARENESS ACTIVITIES

3.56 FYO1 New ACtiVity CI-G Will host the EnvironmentalBiodiversity Reporting Award for FY01ThiS award IS made to the three topJoumallsts who wnte the best article onbiodiverSity In Guyana In the localmedia

BiodiverSity Reporting Awardheld by October 2000

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Award granted'lpersonnel:News Releases ActiVity Leader

CI·GCommunrcatlons Coordlnalor:Sandra Seera).CI·WA Vice·Pres ofIntercom, CI·WAMediaManager

o $4,000

- Program Guyana~:lIItmdOr_GUYana_ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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3.5.7 FYO1 New Acllvlty CIG and CI Washington InternationalCommunlcallons Program and theIntematlonal Federation ofEnvironmental Joumalists will host aOne-day BiodiverSity TrainingWorkshop will train 15-20 localJournalists In biodiverSity reporting. Afield tnp for journalists and reception forparticipating Journalists will also be held

Biodiversity training held andattended by 15·20 people byOctober 2000

Attendance list;IPersonnel:newspaper Acllvlty Leader'articles CI-G

CommunicatIOns Coordinator Sandra Seera),CI·WA Vice·Pres ofInlercom, CIWAMediaManager, IFEJrepresentatives

o

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Press releases,IPersonnel:358 FY01 New ActiVity CIG will launch a media campaignannouncing the ConservationConcession Exploratory granted InSeptember 2000 This event willannounce the signing of the exploratoryConservation Concession exploratorylease granted 10 CI-G and Includes:signing ceremony, photo opportUnity, amedia manage~s brunch, Interviews,and Ihe actual announcement evenlThe goal of this event id to reach anational audience With this news,International press will also be Involved- specific articles will be published In theNew Yorl< Times SCience Section, andthe BBC News

Media Campaign completedby November 2000 artIcles, video

coverage bylocal TVstations

Acllvity LeaderCI-GCommumcatlons Coordlnalor Sandra Seera],Chief ResourceEconomist, CIWashingtonMediapersonnelResources:Staff Time,Press kits,refreshments

0, $10,000

359 FY01 New Activity Four new Radio and TelevIsion PSA,slRadlo and TelevIsIOn spots WIII\4 30 secondpromoting protected areas (With be aired by June 2001 radio PSAs. 4emphaSIS on Kanuku Mountain Region) 30 secondwill be developed and launched In video PSAsGuyana - both nationally In Georgetownand regionally (fOCUSing on Region 9 -the Kanuku Mounlaln Region) ThesePSAs will target both urban and ruralpopulallons to stimulate their supportfor the creation of protected areas

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Personnel:ActIVIty LeaderCIGCommunications Coordinator Sandra Seera],CI-WAIntercom, CIGEducationCoordInalor,Director, andComdorManagerResources:AccommodatlonandInternationaltravel for 1person, Hirednarrator, videoand audioduplication,dlstrrbutloncosts

6,160 15,000

- Program Guyana~:~omdOr~UYana_ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

FY01 Conservahon Intematlonal- USAID/Global Cooparatlve Agreement: Biodiversity Corridor Planning and Implementation Program (Comdor)10-5-00

3 5 10 IFYO1 New Activity CIG with Ct Washington InternationalCommunlcalions Staff will develop anddlstnbute promotional matenalssupporting the development of aprotected area In the Kanuku MountainRegion These promolional matenalsw.lllnclude a Year 2001 calendar, andone poster promoting the KanukuMountains as a protected area 2000 ofeach Will be pnnted and dlstnbuted Incountry to relevant agencies,organizatIOns and schools throughoutthe country

2000 calendars pnnted and ICalendars,dlslnbuted by December 2000. posters,2000 posters pnnted and dlstnbulion "stdlstnbuted by Apnt 2001

Personnel:ActiVIty Leader:CtGCommunications Coordinator Sandra Seera!,Senior DIrector,InternationalCommunications,CI-GuyanaEducationCoordInatorMinistry ofEducationrepresentatlve(s), Office of thePreSIdentrepresentatlve(s), tocal mediarepresentatives. regionaleducationprofeSSionalsResources.Staff time,Internationaland domestictravelAudloNisual

3,627 7,500

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3511 CI-G Will host a senes of regionalchIldren's wntJng competitions In eachof Guyana's 10 regions Thecompetition Will focus on environmentaltOPiCS relevant to that region The bestentnes Will be published In a bookietand In a semI-annual Ct-G newspapersupplement (see 1 7 10 and 1 7 12) Inthe Guyana Chronicle (the nationalnewspaper WIth Widest dlstnbutlonacross the country)_

Matenal promoling contestdlstnbuted, essays wntten andprovided to CIG anddlstnbuted to regional andnalional Judges

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essay senes, Personnel:booklet pnnted, ActiVitynewspaper Leaders Ct-Gsupplements Communicationdeveloped s Coordinator

Sandra SeeraJ:and EducatIOnCoordinator Sandy Gnffith.and AwarenessStaff, RegionalJudgesResources.Prizes

7,843

35.12 IFY01 New ActiVity ICt-G will produce a newspaper Two newspaper pull-outsInsert/pull-out semi-annually. The Insert deSigned and published InWill Include Information on biodiverSity national Newspaper (Withand children's artwork and slones which Widest dlstnbutlOn range) bypromote biodiverSity conservation In September 2001Guyana. The goal of the Inserts IS toreach the widest audience In Guyanaas possible, and to bUIld support for thedevelopment of protected areas.

Copies ofpullouts

Personnel:Aclivlty leaderCI-GCommunicatIOnSCoordinator Sandra Seeraj:EducationCoordinatorResources.slafftlme.travel,promotIonalmatenals

3,627 6,000

Program Guyana_ ~~-.rmdor"Uyana_ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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3 61 Select indicator species andpromote research on them forIntegration at the corndorlevel

3 71 Information gathenng,Integration and analysIs forcore nuclei (new or targetedbiological, social, legal and/oreconomic data)

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total Total 85,348 118,500 9,000 o

3 11 Select and monitor the pnontyareas and connections withinthe nuclear area to bestprotect biodiversity

321 Promote enVifonmentanycompatible actrvltles In

corridor buffer zones

Continue development of ecoenterpnse activltes In areas aroundKanuku Mounlalns

Increase In sales of NTFP's Ilncrease Inand other products from the sales.region; Identification of newenterpnses; finanCial supportsecured frorn donors

Regionalenterprisecooperatives,ecoenterpnseexpert, CIG

3 31 Engage core nucleistakeholders for futurecorndor development(workshops, lobbYing(promoting])

341 Economic analysIs and policylevel work and/or analysIs toIdentify land uses that meetconservation objectives atnuclei level

Update economiC analySIS of necesSarylUPdated reports/econpmlcof conservation concession area, analySIS of conservationnegotrate Increase conservation concession areaconcession area to 1 minion acres

Report Chief ResourceEconomist:CIG;

3 51Awareness program designedand made operational

3 61 Select indicator species andpromote research on them forIntegration at the COrridorlevel

3 711nformatlon gathenng.Integration and analySIS forcore nuclei (new or targetedbiological, social, legal and/oreconomic data)

Develop communications program WithcommUnities Impacted by conservationconcession and/or protected area and

Increase In awareness ofImportance of biodiverSItyconservatIOn at regIOnal andnational level

Reports.strategies andtlmellnesdeveloped

CIG,communltlesand indigenousrepresentatives

Program Guyana

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Program: Guyana

Obiective 4:

Biodiversity corridor of connected core nuclei established


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Plan for connection of core nuclei completedCompatible alternatives developed and demonstrated

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4.1 IAnalyze biological, economic, andsocial data to identify pnority areas forconnection

4.1 14.2 IDesign and promote policy

interventions to alter economic decisionmaking environment across corridor

4.2.14.31 Define and momtor biological sOcial and

spatial indicators for change at thecorridor level

4.3.14.41 Promote changes in legislation

incompatible with corridor goals4.4.1

4.51 Develop market connections foralternative certified products/goodsfrom the corridor

4514.6l1nformatlon gathering, integration, and

analysIs for cOrridor activities (new ortargeted biological, social, legal and/oreconomic data)

4.6.14.7 1Awareness program designed and

made operational at corridor level4.71

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4.1lAnalyze biological, economiC, andsocial data to identify prionty areas forconnection

4.1 11 Expand Corridor program toinclude other biologicallyImportant areas in Guyana.

4.21 Design and promote policyinterventions to alter economic decisionmaking environment across corndor

4 2.1 1Work with the Government ofGuyana to develop new,comprehensive protectedareas legislation.

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4 31 Define and monitor biological social andspatial indicators for change at thecorndor level

4.41 Promote changes in legislationincompatible with corridor goals

4.51 Develop market connections foralternative certified products/goodsfrom the corridor

4.6l1nformatlon gathering, integration, andanalysis for corndor activities (new ortargeted biological, social, legal and/oreconomic data)

4.7 1Awareness program designed andmade operational at corridor level

4.2.21 Promote adaptations inGuyanese forestry policy toallow for conservationconcesSions.Identify and momtor indicatorsacross corridor: analyze geneflow across corridor andmovement, monitor socialindicators, satellite imageryanalysis

431

4.4.1

Continue to develop marketopportumties for nontimberforest products.

4.5.1

4.61Continue Implementation ofthe ongOing NationalConservation AwarenessCampaign and EnvironmentalEducation Program.

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NARRATIVE SUPPLEMENT TO THESIERRA MADRE BIODIVERSITY CORRIDOR

YEAR 2 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN2114/01

1. Overview of the 5MBC Project

The Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor (SMBC) is located in the eastern portion of the Island of Luzon andencompasses the largest tract of lowland rainforest remaining in the Philippines. Based on the Department ofEnvironment and Natural Resources (DENR) statistics, the corridor covers approximately 1 million hectares of forest,including roughly half of the remaining 800,000 hectares of old growth forest in the Philippines. The area is ruggedand still thickly forested, and includes substantial portions of hinterland still uncharted and unexplored scientifically.The range stretches from north to south and is bordered on the west by an extensive area of development andintensive agricultural production. To the east lies several hundred kilometers of coastline. In addition to its biologicalimportance, the area is still home to large indigenous populations, such as the Agtas in Cagayan, Isabela and Auroraprovinces and the Bugkalots in Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya.

Currently, the 5MBC extends through five provinces (Cagayan, Isabela, Quirino, Aurora and Quezon); however, CIPhilippines (CIP) is considering eventually expanding the corridor into four additional provinces (Nueva Vizcaya,Nueva Ecija, Bulacan and Rizal). The proposed expansion of the 5MBC evolved out of stakeholderconsultations/orientations on the project. The initial suggestions were made by the Local Government Units coveringthe Sierra Madre range and the Regional Development Councils (RDC), which coordinate all development initiatives inthe region. The strategic importance of the expansion areas was reinforced by the results of a spatial analysis, whichindicated that the incorporation of these areas is critical to successful conservation within the 5MBC. The expansionshould not affect the existing budget or implementation plan because the proposed areas are contiguous to the originalarea, and planned activities and objectives are readily adaptable to include these areas. The proposed expansion isalready included in an implementation plan prepared for 5MBC beyond the period covered by the USAID Corridoragreement.

CIP is implementing and promoting the Sierra Madre as a biodiversity conservation corridor, which entails thedevelopment of a more coordinated and improved management system for the region. The corridor approach seeks toconnect existing protected areas, forest reserves, watershed reservations and other management units [i.e.Community Based Forest Management Agreements (CBFMA) and Certificates of Ancestral Domain Claims (CADC)]under an integrated planning and management system stretching across the 5MBC. At present, there are 22 existingProtected Areas that will serve as the core nuclei for a corridor linking the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park with theMaria Aurora Memorial Park. Since existing protected areas, watershed reservations, forest reserves andmanagement units are established in fragments along the corridor, large areas have been left open to access andoccupation. These areas do not currently have a management system to ensure that they are developed appropriately.

To date, there are still three logging companies currently allowed to operate in the corridor area until the expiration oftheir permits. According to the DENR, the latest will expire in 2007. Two special economic zones are also beingestablished, one in the northernmost portion (Cagayan province) and the other one in the southernmost portion(Quezon province) of the corridor. The government also proposes to establish two major road systems traversing theSierra Madre range. The intention is to connect the coastal municipalities with the major growth centers located on thevalley side of the Sierra Madre range and around Manila. As a result of the enactment of a mining law, there arealready several applications for mining permits within the corridor area. It is expected that mining investment willcontinue to have a big impact on the area due to the presence of gold, chromite, and other valuable minerals. If nothandled appropriately, these development and extractive investments pose a grave threat to the biodiversity of thecorridor area, particularly when considered comprehensively. In addition, the growing popUlation in the region can beexpected to result in increased agricultural conversion of forest areas.

The project is utilizing the Rapid Assessment of Corridor Economics (RACE) methodology and spatial analysistechniques (e.g. GIS) to analyze the current state of the corridor area and to refine the threats analysis. By compilingexisting maps and information from the different government agencies (such as the DENR, the National Economic andDevelopment Authority [NEDA] and provincial governments) and using aerial photography in critically threatenedareas, it will be possible to formulate appropriate strategies and management interventions compatible with theexisting land use systems in the area. Current activities entail the development of the 5MBC framework needed to

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prioritize and target threats and to build the necessary constituency for the project. In Year Two of the project, it isexpected that more direct interventions will be implemented based on current analysis and planning. Theseinterventions include the investigation of appropriate livelihood and development alternatives, the launching ofawareness campaigns and policy advocacy directly addressing identified threats, the strengthening of existingprotected areas, and the promotion of additional protected areas or other management units within open access areas.

2. Project status/updates and Challenges/issues

In Year One, project activities focused on developing and expanding coordination, networking, and other outreachactivities, as well as promoting and refining the corridor concept with major stakeholders across the region. CIPsuccessfully staffed up the project and expanded its on-site presence and capacity.

CIP made presentations to and engaged in discussions with NGOs and important government stakeholder agencies,including the DENR, NEDA, and Local Government Units (LGUs) at both the provincial and municipal level. As aresult of this outreach and information campaign, a variety of stakeholders have expressed their interest and supportfor the project. Endorsements of support were received from the Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) of theNorthern Sierra Madre Natural Park, DENR officials of the Regions covered (Region 2,3 and 4) and many of the LGUsof the provinces encompassing the 5MBC. The PAMS endorsed the project with a resolution, the DENR expressedtheir support through a letter of commitment to Conservation International, the NEDA-RDC with their endorsement,and the provincial LGUs by creating Provincial Sustainable Development Councils. Likewise, NGOs have givensupport to the 5MBC, and the Foundation for Philippine Environment (FPE) has adopted the 5MBC framework for allof their projects within the Sierra Madre Corridor. Currently, CI is working on an MOA with FPE to complement groundactivities in Cagayan province.

Important progress has been made in the gathering of baseline data and information toward the development of acorridor information system that will support the framework and implementation plan. The baseline data includesbiological, socio-economic, land cover, land-use plans, and regional, provincial and municipal development plans. Thedata gathered to date are being compiled using the CIP GIS unit. The majority of biological data, particularly on plants,were generated from the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, reflecting the limited biological data available for theregion. In Year Two, CIP will use analyses of the data and information to further define, and where necessary revise,the design of strategies and management interventions that most effectively address biodiversity threats in the area.

The immediate threat of biodiversity loss/destruction is aggravated by the proposed establishment of roads, specialeconomic zones, and the continuation of logging and mining operations in the area. A new road, which has beenpartially constructed in Cagayan province, will cut across old growth forest. The Regional Council for SustainableDevelopment of Region 2 and Multi Sectoral Forest Protection Group (RCSD-MSFPG) stopped the operation pendingthe issuance of an Environmental Compliance Certificate for the project. It should be emphasized, however, that theseon-going development/investment initiatives are covered within existing laws and within the framework of existinginvestment plans of the government. In this context, CIP promotes careful participatory planning to develop the bestplan to address these threats to biodiversity without compromising the legality of existing investments. Planning withthe participation of all stakeholders, including the agencies regulating the implementation of these projects, LGUs,concerned NGOs and local communities, will promote the acceptance of appropriate interventions and buildconfidence and transparency in the formulation of development alternatives.

3. The Threats to the 5MBC and the Initial Activities/Interventions to Address the Threats

The primary direct threats in the 5MBC area are the development of roads across the Sierra Madre range, logging,mining, land conversion for agriCUlture, the development of special economic zones and the construction of dams forenergy generation. Infrastructure development plans include hydroelectric installations, agro-industrial growth centersand regional trade and industrial centers. Despite the protected status of the park, there are still proposals to de-listsome portions for additional concessions and related infrastructure development. The Cagayan Valley StrategicDevelopment Plan for Region 2 outlines several development projects,including the three trans-Sierra Madre roadsand one coastal road within Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park territory. The Local Government Units at the provincialand municipal levels have generally welcomed this development plan as a means of generating employment andincreased market access. Transportation of goods in and out of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park remains achallenge, and the local people seek improved access to the rest of the country_ The RACE process will elucidate theissues and incentives related to development and infrastructure projects, and will facilitate the further investigation of

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alternatives and/or best practices. The land use and land cover assessments will determine biodiversity priority areas,including critically important ecosystems, areas of vulnerability and other key focal geographic sites.

Though logging in the primary forests has been banned, Timber License Agreements continue to exist. Moreover, thelack of legal protection of traditional forest tenure allows outsiders unchecked access to forest resources. In NorthernSierra Madre Natural Park, most of the timber poaching is carried out by people from Quezon, but inhabitants areinvolved as well. CIP will address the logging threat by conducting an intensive education campaign on theimportance of biodiversity within the park and by supporting the Community Forest Guards (Bantay Kalikasan Brigade)and strengthening the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park-Protected Area Management Board (NSMNP-PAMB).Additionally, crs continuation of in-kind support to the Protected Area Superintendent of Northern Sierra MadreNatural Park will directly strengthen the effectiveness of the park's management. CI will also facilitate the process ofbuilding broad-based consensus for the creation and support of specific protected areas across the corridor.

The enactment of the Mining Act (Republic Act No.7942) in 1995 put a vast portion of the Sierra Madre under severalmining applications, which continues to pose a grave danger to the biological diversity in the area. Currently, some ofthe mining applications within Cagayan province have obtained permits; however, the operations are stalled due to theabsence of approved Environmental Compliance Certificates. Other obstacles include overlaps in area coverage withCommunity-Based Forest Management Areas (CBFMA) and Certificate of Ancestral Domain Claims (CADC) issued tocommunities prior to the mining permits. The 5MBC project will facilitate the implementation of appropriate actions tocounter the mining operations based on the compilation and analysis of all relevant data/information available for thearea, including the results of the RACE. Data gathering and analysis will also be performed to provide stakeholdersand decision-makers with the information needed to make wise decisions on resource use and planning. CIP willcontinue bUilding alliances and partnerships to engage and generate support from provincial governments, LocalGovernment Units and local communities affected by these extractive activities. The continuation of consultations onthe 5MBC will increase awareness among all stakeholders of the long-term costs of mining on communitydevelopment and biodiversity conservation.

Given the numerous and varied threats to the 5MBC area, the project strategy will be refined based on theidentification and analysis of the scale and intensity of the different threats. To date, CIP has collected a wide range ofdata on regional planning as well as information on stakeholder actors across the corridor region. CIP will perform aninitial assessment of land use and tenurial instruments within the 5MBC. The assessment will consist of developing aGIS database on existing land uses in the 5MBC, inclUding infrastructure development plans, in order to determineoverlapping land uses and potential areas of strategic focus. The assessment results from this activity will be used tofacilitate the RACE process.

CI's Resource Economics Program and CI Philippines' Resource Economist will design and initiate the RACE for the5MBC. The RACE will analyze and prioritize the major threats to biodiversity across the 5MBC, with the results usedto refine and target project interventions to the underlying causes of the threats. Each prioritized threat will beanalyzed by CI staff resource economists together with local expert consultants to produce a report identifying thegeographical distribution of the threat, the economic drivers, related political and management causes, and theeconomic incentives for different stakeholders. Reports will be prepared on the following major regional threats: (i)road development; (ii) industrial estate development; (iii) logging; (iv) mining and (v) dam development. Based on theinformation and analysis that will be conducted through the RACE process, CIP will be able to develop a cost-benefitanalysis (CSA) and provide appropriate policies and interventions to address some of the key threats within thecorridor. Subsequent activities will focus on localized areas defined as critical through the GIS and RACEassessments. Different stakeholers, including local communities, will participate in the RACE process in order togenerate acceptable and credible results.

Overall, there is lack of appreciation and understanding among local governments and communities of the importanceof biodiversity and its relevance to their long-term sustainable development interests. There is also weak coordinationbetween government agencies, as well as overlapping and unclear mandates. CIP will continue to facilitateconsultations and biodiversity orientations with various stakeholders to strengthen the coordination and integration ofactivities within the proposed corridor.

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Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor Threats Assessment

ROOT CAUSE(S) PROXIMATE Environmental Effect CI-Philippines Activities Activity's Effect on theTHREATS Threats

Local demand to reduce economic Road Primary: CI Philippines will:isolation (East-West) Development Habitat loss/ Alteration;

(East-West) Biodiversity loss; 1. Purchase/collect andNational trans-SM super-highway (North-South) Increased Sedimentation compile on 5MBC (1.1.1),(North-South) Timber extraction/ Le. development plans,

Logging; Secondary: timber and concession data,Coastal Road w/in NSMNP Migration; Pollution/Garbage build-up; land use data and existing

Easier Access for vegetation data as basis toNational Poverty Alleviation Program Mining; for the formulation ofand national-level economic Tourism Increase appropriate managementdevelopment and infrastructure (Unregulated); interventions and formulatingplanning initiatives Increased Social advocacy strategy.

Conflict; 2. Process cloud free satelliteDisplacement of images (1.1.2) and conductIndigenous over flights and groundCommunities truthing (1.1.3) to determine

the location of the proposedroads and the extent of thethreats posed in constructingthe roads, including theidentification of criticalimportant and/or vulnerableareas. The data generated inthese activities will be usedto develop the appropriateinterventions.

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ROOT CAUSE(S)

National Economic Goals/Priorities:GDP Growth, Employment, Increasedtrade/foreign and domesticinvestmentDevelopment of Alternatives to smallholder agricultureIncrease local level incomesPromote economic/industrialmigration centers outside

PROXIMATE

THREATS

Development ofIndustrial Estates

Road Construction;Populationpressure;Increased Demandfor Resources;Displacement ofIndigenous People;

Environmental Effect

Primary:Increased Demand forResources;Habitat loss/alteration;Pollution/Industrial Waste

Secondary:Water and soil erosion;Destruction of Marineecosystems

CI-Philippines Activities

CI-Philippines will:

1. Design and initiate RapidAssessment of CorridorEconomics (RACE) along thepropose corridor (1.1.6). TheRACE will focus on majorthreats to biodiversity acrossthe corridor. Each of thethreats will be mapped outand identify the economicdrivers, political andmanagement related causesand the economic incentivesheld by the differentstakeholders.

2. Establish biological ResourceCenter (1.1.9) in order toshow/share information on thebiodiversity of the SierraMadre and its importance todevelopment.

3 Continue to engage indialogue and awarenesscampaign to the differentstakeholders throughconsultations and orientations(1.4.2 and 1.7.3) to generatesupport and createawareness on the importanceof biodiversity.

Activity's Effect on theThreats

The RACE process will provideinformation and analysis tosupport the development ofpolicies and alternatives toextractive industries. CostBenefit Analysis will be done oneach of these threats anddevelop options to be providedto the decision-makers.Currently, data are beinggathered to establish the extentof threat of each developmentplans.

Baseline biological data will beincorporated in the analysis toshow us the impact of suchproject on biodiversity. This willalso provide the basis for thedevelopment of alternatives tothe projects, which will causeless impact on biodiversity.

The results of the analysis willbe conveyed to decision-makersand discussed with them,including alternatives. CIP willfoster awareness and providepertinent information fordecision-makers.

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ROOT CAUSE(S) PROXIMATE Environmental Effect CI·Philippines Activities Activity's Effect on theTHREATS Threats

Pressure to utilize resource base to Logging Primary: CI Philippines will: The data generated from theprevent outsiders from benefiting from (large-scale legal Habitat Alteration & RACE process and the biologicaluse (within NSMNP) and small-scale Fragmentation; 1. Compile existing data (1.1.1) information will be used to

illegal) Habitat and forest loss logging, land use convey the effects of this threat.Logging outside of concession areas Soil erosion - siltation of development plan, etc. and This will help raise awareness ofdue to low risk of sanctions (economic Increased access rivers conduct RACE (1.1.6) to the local community in NSMNPopportun ism) to new areas for Sedimentation of coastal serve as basis for policy and provide the NSMNP •

hunting and reefs/mangroves; advocacy activities, Protected Area Managementagriculture; identification and formulation Board (PAMB) pertinent

Domestic and international demand Secondary: of appropriate interventions information for decision-making.for tropical hardwood Destructive or Increase in vector-borne that would address the

inappropriate disease incidence; underlying causes of the The continuous consultation andalternative logging threat. dialogue with the stakeholderslivelihood activities 2. Establish biological Resource will help generate information on(coffee growers) Center (1.1.9) in order to the actual status and update CIP

show/share information on the with what is happening on thebiodiversity of the Sierra ground. This will help CIPMadre and its importance to improve our strategy anddevelopment. developed activities that will help

3. Continue to engage in address these threats that aredialogue and awareness acceptable and easily conveyedcampaign to the different to the stakeholders.stakeholders throughconsultations and orientations National awareness is also(1.4.2 and 1.7.3) to generate important in the awarenesssupport and create campaign to educate theawareness on the importance decision makers at the nationalof biodiversity. level

4. develop media events andproducts (1.7.3)such as Data generated from the RACEpress releases, process will be conveyed to theenvironmental book decision-makers at the nationallaunching and exhibits to level. This will provide theraise national awareness of decision-makers the sense ofbiodiversity conservation what is really happening on the

ground.

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Foreign Investment (international Mining Primary: CI Philippines will:markets) large-scale Water/Soil Contamination; Please refer to remarks 1 and 2

exploration, Habitat Destruction; 1. Compile existing data (1.1.1)Domestic and international demand development and River Sedimentation/Soil logging, land usefor gold, nickel and chromite, copper extraction Erosion; development plan, etc. and

Human Health Impacts -- conduct RACE (1.1.6) toLack of awareness of potential impact small-scale poisoning, malaria pools, serve as basis for policyon human and environmental health exploration, food source contamination advocacy activities,

development and identification and formulationextraction, of appropriate interventionsincluding the use of that would address themercury and other underlying causes of thetoxic chemicals logging threat.

2. Establish biological ResourceCenter (1.1.9) in order toshow/share information on thebiodiversity of the SierraMadre and its importance todevelopment.



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Energy demand for Luzon Dam Development Primary: CI Philippines will:Flooding/inundation; See Above

Casecnan Dam Electricity Disruption of aquatic habitat 1. Compile existing data (1.1.1)Generation; and ecology and habitat logging, land use

loss; development plan, etc. andRoads and Disruption of water systems conduct RACE (1.1.6) toassociated serve as basis for policyinfrastructure Secondary: advocacy activities,development; identification and formulation

of appropriate interventionsExpansion of that would address thetourismirecreation underlying causes of theuse; logging threat.

2. Establish biological ResourceCommunity Center (1.1.9) in order todisplacement; show/share information on the

biodiversity of the SierraMadre and its importance todevelopment.

3. Continue to engage indialogue and awarenesscampaign to the different ...

stakeholders throughconsultations and orientations(1.4.2 and 1.7.3) to generatesupport and createawareness on the importanceof biodiversity.


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Low awareness of biodiversity Lack of effective Unimpeded biodiversity CI Philippines will:importance national and local destruction/loss of habitat; See AboveLimited financial resources/ primacy capacity to 1. Continue to engage inof other development priorities manage, equip and dialogue and awareness

police protected campaign to the differentareas; stakeholders throughHuman consultations and orientationsencroachment into (1.4.2 and 1.7.3) to generateexisting protected support and createareas; awareness on the importanceFailure to establish of biodiversity.new protected 2. Establish biological Resourceareas Center (1.1.9) in order to

share the biodiversity of theSierra Madre with otherscientist and the generalpublic.

3. provide support to theoperations and capacitybuilding trainings of theProtected Area andmanagement Board and theDENR-Park Superintendent inprotecting the Northern SierraMadre Natural Park and willhelp the establishment of thecommunity forest guards thatwill assist the DENR in theprotection work (2.2.1 and2.2.3)

4. explore debt for Nature swapopportunities and assess aspossible financing mechanismfor the Sierra Madrebiodiversity Corridor (1.6.1)

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Source of income from revolutionary Increased rebel Logging/habitat alteration CI Philippines will:taxes activities See Above


2. Establish biological ResourceCenter (1.1.9) in order toshare the biodiversity of theSierra Madre with otherscientist and the generalpublic.

3. provide support to theoperations and capacitybuilding trainings of theProtected Area andmanagement Board and theDENR-Park Superintendent inprotecting the Northern SierraMadre Natural Park and willhelp the establishment of thecommunity forest guards thatwill assist the DENR in theprotection work (2.2.1 and2.2.3)

4. explore debt for Nature swapopportunities and assess aspossible financing mechanismfor the Sierra Madrebiodiversity Corridor(1.6.1)

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4. Financial Sustainability Activities for Year 2 of the 5MBC Program

CI-Philippines has taken programmatic measures to ensure long-term financial sustainability of the5MBC. CI-Philippines and CI's Conservation Policy and Finance Manager will explore debt-fornature swap opportunities under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act and will assess as possiblefinancing mechanism for the Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor. In addition, CI will continue to buildfinancial sustainability of the corridor by building the technical and financial capacity of 5MBCpartners and stakeholders. Technical and financial support to established People's Organizationsin Cagayan and Isabela provinces will include training on financial management, conflict resolutionand networking. Technical support will include assistance in accessing funding for operations.

In addition to programmatic interventions, CI will also bring significant co-financing sources to Year2 implementation. CI has been able to match over 20% of USAID's support for 5MBC. CI continuesto seek additional funding for this ambitious program, and has already been successful in engagingprivate sector support in the Philippines. In addition to continuing support from the First PhilippineConservation, Inc., the Foundation for Philippine Environment has agreed in principle to coordinateits funding and activities in the region with CI. The 5MBC program has also received support fromRicoh Corporation, Japan for conservation outreach and education activities, and is exploringfurther support. CI's Tropical Wilderness Protection Fund, contributing match funding for the RACEcomponent, can be expected to leverage additional funding for the 5MBC in the future.

5. Stakeholder Participation Activities for Year 2 of the 5MBC Program

In Year 2, CIP will take important steps to concretize stakeholder support of the 5MBC planningand implementation framework. Many regional organizations and agencies have become awareand interested in the Corridor approach. CI-Philippines will conduct biannual meetings withidentified 5MBC partners: Foundation for Philippine Environment (FPE), Plan International (PI),National Integrated Protected Area Inc. (NIPA), Department of Environment and Natural Resources(DENR), the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), and Local Government Units(LGUs-provincial and municipal) to coordinate corridor activities and inform partners of newdevelopments.

Right now, the Foundation for Philippine Environment and CI Philippines are forging aMemorandum of Agreement to jointly work for the implementation of biodiversity conservationprojects in the Cagayan province. The Regional Offices (Regions 2, 3 & 4) of the Department ofEnvironment and Natural Resources have expressed support to the project through letters ofcommitment issued by the concerned Regional Directors and are now working with the 5MBCteam on the on-going consultation and awareness campaign. The prOVincial government unitsagreed to create provincial sustainable development councils in support to the program. In additionto the awareness campaign, these stakeholders will also be included in the RACE process.

In addition to providing activity updates and additional information, CI-Philippines will continue tohold consultations on the corridor framework with stakeholders at various levels. Key stakeholdersto be addressed are DENR's regional and provincial offices, the Community Environment andNatural Resources Office (CENRO) in Regions 2 and 4, Local Government Units, provincial andmunicipal governments, NGOs and People's Organizations with community-based forestmanagement agreements within the corridor area.

6. Information, Education and Communication Activities for Year 2 of the 5MBC Program

CIP will conduct strategically targeted education and communication activities in Year 2. Majoractivities include the design of an awareness campaign for conservation within the Northern SierraMadre Natural Park and the promotion of the corridor concept to policy makers in key governmentagencies. As information and analyses become available from the GIS and RACE assessments,they will be incorporated into communication materials and/or disseminated through workshopsand reports. The different stakeholders of the park will jointly implement the awareness campaign

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activities. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, which is mandated by thegovernment to implement biodiversity conservation programs, will spearhead the continuation ofthe awareness campaign to include current activities and consultations. Local Coordinating Unitscreated in every province will coordinate the awareness campaign activities.

CIP will conduct presentations at stakeholder meetings, workshops and consultations. CIPhilippines will develop informational and educational materials, including a corridor brochure, tobe used by Site Coordinators and Community Organizers in outreach efforts to 5MBC stakeholdersand potential partners. Activities will include seminar/lectures concerning ecology, biodiversityconservation, environmental protection and wildlife management to targeted audiences (localcommunities and students) during the training sessions conducted in Divilacan and Maconacon.CI-Philippines will also set up an interpretive ecological display in the office of the Protected AreasSuperintendent (PASu) of NSMNP as an educational resource.

To galvanize public support, develop a national constituency and exert pressure on decisionmakers, CI also seeks to develop a national awareness-building campaign on the Sierra Madre.Anticipated activities include the development of Public Service Announcements (excellent footageis available, seeking match funding for production costs) and other media outreach. CI has alreadyhad a series of discussions with TV and advertising companies interested in helping to promote the"Save the Sierra Madre" message.

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Program: PhilippInos

Objective 1.

BUild blodrverslly comdor planningand ImplementalJan supportframework

Year 2 Objective 1 lovol of effort;USAID-GIENV

Cl·Tropical Wilderness ProtectIOn Fund

Cl-Flfst Philippine ConservatIon IncCI-Center for ApplIed BIOdiversity SCiences

USAID • PhnlPPlnesCI·Olher Sources

Total for ObJective 1

11 Biodiversity corridorassessment completed (baseJlnelegal, biological. economic andsocial assessments/datagathered)

FY01 Conservation International· USAlDIGlobai CooperaUv(l Agreemenl BiodIversity CorrIdor PlannIng and Implementation Program (Comdor)RevIsed 10·18·00

Antlcipa.ted Five-year Bonchmarks;

Corridor plannmg Unit In place

Consullatlve process completed With key stakeholdersMemos of understandIng signed among key stakeholders

Corrldor·wlde threats assessment completedStakeholder analyses, connlcl analyses. functIonal analyses completedInformation Infrastructure In placeDala IntegratedInformatlon shanng mechanIsm developedTraining provIdedCommunlcatlon stratellV developed and ImDlemented

Plan for long-term financial mechanism establishedFuncllng for comdor coordinated by donorsMonlloring and evaluation procedures establishedTrafnlllg providedEvaluallon. lessons and recommendations communIcated 10 corridor project partners and declslon·makersAnnual learnIng forum conducled

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1111Llstofrequlredlanclcover 1111data sources has beenproduced Must confirm utlhtyof data 10 corndorassessmenl Vegetatlon datahas been acquired and mustbe digitized and formalledPlease refer to 1 1 1 of FY '00Implementation Plan

CI-Ph~lppmeswill purchase and comPllel Collected data sets are dlglllzed IOlgUaI data selseXlstmg data for the entire Sierra and entered Into comdorMadre Biodiversity corndor (SMBC) ,"[ormaUon system by Septemberarea from reqUIred DENR offICes, '01proVinCIal offIces of Cagayan IsablesQUlnno, Aurora and Quezon and andfrom EnvlTOnmental ScIence for SocialChange Inc (ESSC)Data types to be collecteda) Development plans (IncludesIndustnal estate and mfraslructuredevelopment plans),b) timber and mInerai concessIon dala,c) land use data,d) eXISting vegetation dala for Cagayan,Aurora, Northern Quezon and Qulrmoprovmees

Personnel Ct-P GISstaff, Cl-CASS GISSpeCIalist, 5MBCProgram Manager, CI-PSCience Director SiteCoordInators,Community OrganIZersResources Staff time,GIS/computerequipment purchase and",B

43.656

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FY'01 New ActIVIty

New FY'01 ActIVity

112

113

CI·CASS and CI.PhlhpplRes Will acqUIre Approprlate vegetatlon IPartially compleled 5MBCand begin processmg c1oud~free classificatIon scheme identifiedand vegetation mapsatellite Images of 5MBC to produce clasSIfICation !nlllated byvegetahon map to be !niegrated 1010 September '01 Cl GiScomdor lnformallon system CI·CABS staff traIned 1n Image processIngwill prOVide training to Cl-Phlhpplnes by Oelober 'Q1GIS staft In Image processing 10 order10 ensure accurale vegel8tlon maps

Ci-Phlllppmes and CI·CABS WIll COnductl Photography and vldeography setsIPholography andoverflights for the purpose of gathering used fror claSSIfying Imagery to vldeography setsground trulh dala covenng show eXIstIng land cover andrepresentatrve forest types and land venfyrng land use estImatesuses, over the remaIning natural forests produced by JUly '01and adJacenl occupied lands

Personnel CI-CABSGIS Specialist. CI-P GISStaffResources Staff time.local travet, InternatIonaltravel GIS/computerequipment use

Personnel CI·P 5MBCProgram Manager.CABS GIS SpeclaUst. Ci·'P BotanistResources Planecharter, slaff lime. localtravel, mlernallonaltravel

13.05

32.099

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Initial assessment of land use and IReport. Maptenunallnstruments conducted andavailable tn written report form by

tanunal Instruments WIthin 5MBC The IOctober '01assessment wil consist of collecllng GISdata from of eXlStmg land uses In theSM8C, Including Infrastructuredevelopmenl plans, In order todetermine overlappIng land uses andpolentlal areas of strategic focus Theassessment results from this activity Will

be used In Ihe Rapid Assessment ofCorridor EconomIcs (RACE) activity(see 116)

Personnel CI·P GISStaff, 5MBC PrgoramManagerResources Staff I1me,GISlcompu!er use

xl Ix

FY'01 New Actlvny 115 Cl-Phalpplnes WIll collect and examine IExlsllng maps compiled and dalaeXlsllng maps of community resource entered Into GIS and data gapsuse WIthin the muniCipalities covered by Identified by September '01lhe 5MBC as produced by DENRreglona[ and proVinCial offices andmunICIpal and Local Government Unlloffices Ci-Phlllpprnes' GIS speclahstWlll/den!lfy dala gaps 10 be fitted byfulure community mapping exercIsesand Inlegrale eXIsting resource useInformatIon tnto GIS formal

D[gltlzed data sets ofcommunlly resource useReport on data gaps [n5MBC

Personnel CI·P G[SStaff. 5MBC ProgramManager, CI·P 8olams!Resources Staff Ume,GIS/computer use, localtravel

1,366

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11 21Terms of reference drawn for 11 t 6Resource EconomISt,IntelVlews being conductedActlvlly has been modlfledsuch that aU corndor-IevelSOCioeconomIC analyses aresubsumed under the RapidAssesmenl of CorridorEconomics (RA-GE) process(see attachment) RACE walcommence upon filling ofResource Economist posItionPlease refer 10 1 1 2 and 1 1 4of FY '00 ImplementationPlan

CI's Resource EconomiCs Program and RACe: deSigned and Imbaled Wllh IReport. Threats Map.Cl PhilIppInes' Resource Economlsl WItt appropnale local expert Report updatedeSign and Imllate Ihe RapId consultants Identlfled by DecemberAssessmenl of Corridor Economics '00 Draft(RACE) for the 5MBC The RACE WIlt reports on key threats submilledanalyze and prlorltlze the major threats for peer revIew by June '01to blodNerslty across the 5MBC Each Full reports on key threatsprlOnhzed threat wilt be analyzed by Cl aVailable by September '01staff resource economIsts together With Update on reports of Ihe Impact oflocal expert consullants to produce a economics-based poliCY advacacyrepor1 IdenUfylng the geographical submllled by Sep '01distribution of the threat, Ihe economicdrNers polllical and managementrelated causes, and the economll:,"cenlNes held by differentstakeholders They Will be prepared onthe follOWing threats (I) roaddevelopment, (11)lndustnal estaledevelopment, (iii) logging. (N) minIng,and (v) dam development, and will beused dIrectly as Ihe baSIS for polICYadvocacy actNI(les, the IdentIfication offur1her cntlcal work. and the refinIngand largellng of prolect InterventIonsbased on how welt they address theunder1ylng causes af the threats

Personnel Ct-pResource Economist, CIResource EconomlSl,Resource EconomIstConsultant, SectoralExpert Consultant5MBC ProgramManager.Resources Staff lune,computer purchase anduse. local travel,Intemallonaltravel

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1 1 41 Fonnulaled hsl ofslakeholders and concludedpreliminary assessmenl ofslakeholder rnleresls Pleaserefer to 1 1 4 of the FY'OOImplementation PlanContlnuallon of this acllVlty IS

subsumed under FY , 01Acllv.ty 1 1 6 - Ihe RACEprocess

Ci-Philllpmes' bolamst Will gather Iheremaining botanical mongraphs andphotocopies of those not available forcollection from the Umverslly of thePhilippines (Oilman and los Banos)Herbanum, Harvard Herbanum and theNational Herbarium of Netherlands atNorthern Sierra Madre Natural Park(NSMNP) CI-PhIllpplnes' botanist willcontinue 10 IdentJ!y botanicalspeCImens, some already collected andsome to be collected In FY '01 fromNSMNP In order to build a completespecIes 1151 for NSMNP

1 1 51 Complied and databased 65% 11 1 7of basehne biological data forthe corridor Need to finaillecollaborallon WIth PlanIntemallonallor access 10thelf data sets 10 finalize datacompdahon Please refer to1150fFY'OOImplementallon Plan

PhotocopIes ofmonographs. list ofidentifIed species

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FY01 Con5~rvatltm International USAIDIGlobal Cooperative Agreement Blodlverstly Corridor PlannIng and Implementation Program (Corrtdor)Revised 10-16-00

CI-Ph~IPPlnBS wdl commence theappJrcalton process to DENR forobtaining a permit for samplecollections of flora and fauna specImenfor the establishment of the herbanumfor Sierra Madre to be displayed in thebIological resource cenler of NSMNPPermiSSion 10 collect fauna specimensIS needed for fulure biologIcal sUrlfeysIn the area (FY '02 planned actIVIty)

Appllcallon acquired by September ICopy of Pnor Inform'01 Consenl, LGU and PAMS

endorsement andgratUItous permit

Personnel Cl-PDirector, CI-P ProgramManager, CI·P ScienceDirectorResources Staft time,local travel, fieldsupplies xl xl xl XI xl XI XI xl x

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FY'Ol New ActIVIty 119 CI-Phtllpplnes WIll establish a bIOlogIcal ISpecimen collection and resource IDIsplayed specimenresource center contamlng a specimen matenals dIsplayed and acceSSible collechon at NSMNPdisplay and scientific resource materials by December '00 cenler(publicatiOns and articles) In Integrated Collecllons wdl be expandedProtected Area System (IPAS) offll:::e of throughout Year 2the Protected Area Supennlendent(PASu) of NSMNP In order to share theblodlVerSlly of the NSMNP WIth othersCientIsIs and the general pubhc

Personnel Cl-PBotanist, ResearchAssIstantResources Slaff lime,local travel, displaysupplies

6,061

x Ix Ix Ix IX Ix Ix IX IX IX IX Ix

1.2lntegtated corridorInformation system designedand operational

1 211Speclallst hired and trained 1121Data gathering and entry notcompleled Refer to ActIVIty1 2 1 of FY'OO ImplementationPlan

CI·PhtllPPlnes' GIS SpeCialist WIll work IBaseline GISdalabase operatlonallMOA With ESSC, GISwJlh ESSe staff to compile and digitize by september '01 databaseIhe spatial and textual data collectedfrom 5MBC In Years 1 and 2 and enterthe data Into the comdor lnformallonsystem ThiS Includes dl9ll1zmgInrormallon nal othelWlse available Indigital form

Personnel CI-P GISStaffResources Staff lime,dlQIllzer purchase anduse, GIS/computer use,database soflware

8.780

Xl xl xl xl xl xl xlxl xl xl xl x

1 2 21 CUrrently pursUIng MOAs with 11 2 2OENR, NORDECO andESSC Refer to ActIVlly 1 2 2of FY '00 ImplementallonPlan

Cr.PhllJpplnes Will fmallze MOAs fordata collection and shanng with theFoundatIon for Phlllppme Envlomment(FPE) and Will establish MOAs With IheDepartment of Envtronment and NaturatResources (DENR) and EnVltonmentalSCience for SoCial Cahnge (ESSe) foraccess to dala In areas not covered byeXlsltng protected areas, forestreserves watershed reserlfatlons andlenurlalinstruments

Outslandlg MOAs finalized andnew MOAs established bySeptember '01

MOAsorMOlJs Personnel Cl-PDIrector. CI-P ScienceDirector, CI-P GIS/ITManagerResources Staff lime,local travel

5,371

xl xl xl xl xl xlxlxl xl xl xl x

1 3 Corridor teamingsystem/adaptive managemlilnt In

place and operational

FY'Ol New ActiVity

1311Completed Please refer 10ActiVity 1 3 1 In FY 'DOImetementallon Pian

1 32leompleted Please refer toActIVIty 1 3 2 In FY '00Implementation Plan

123 CI·CABS' GIS Department wm deSIgn IDatabase deSigned and loata base for corridorand operaltonahze Ihe GIS database for operallonallZed by August '01 Informallon systemthe comdor Information system CABS Cl-P GIS Staff Iralned In COrridorWill conduct tralnmg for CI-PhlIJPPlnes informatIon system use byslallin corndor Information syslem Seplember '01database management

Personnel CABS GISSpeclaltst, CI-P GISStaffResources Staff lime,Internallonatlravel

5,62

xlxl xlxl xix] xl xl xl x

FY'01 New ActIVity 131 CI-Phll1pPlnes' 5MBC Program Manage1 MOnltonng plan developed byand CI.Phll1PPlnes' Manltonng and February '01Evaluahon Siaff With consu1talJon fromCI's M&E Department, WIll develop amonltanng plan for lhe SIerra MadreBlOdlverslly Corridor to be used as amanagement loot to adjust and adaptCl's Interventlons In the 5MBC

M&E system Personnel CI M&EStaff, 5MBC ProgramManagerResources Staff Ume,local travelcommunlcallon

84,

xlxlxlxlX

Ci-Phltlpppmes 5MBC ProgramManager and Slle Coordmator Willallend the carndor learmng systemmeeting In FlOrida SprIng 2001 ThIsmeellng Will focus on shanngInfarmahon and tessons learned acrossall comdors Within CI

CI-P SM8C Program Manager and IWorkshop reportalleasl 1 SIte Coordinator attendsthe meeting by June '01

Personnel CI-P 5MBCProgram Manager, SIteCoordmators ResourcesSialltime Internationaltravel

-FY'01 New ActIVIty

PI09i1iamP linesFYO o"mPIPI_1016-00_Phil,

132

- - - - - - - -379:

-1,BOO

- - - -xl x

- -

FY01 ConselVallon Intemallonal- USAlDfGlobal Cooperallva Agreement BIodiversity CorrldOl" Planning and Implementation Program (CorrIdor)Revised 10-18-00 ~

~

FY'01 New ActIVity 133 In AugusU8eptember Year 2 of the Year 2 review and Year 3 planning IFY '02 5MBCproject, CI·Phlllppines and CI - conducled by flrsl week of Implementation PlanWashIngton Staff members wl1l convene September '01 I

a Year 2 ReVI8W meellng and Year 3 Year 3 USAID Implementallon PlanPlanning In the Phdlpplnas to revlaw all developed and submrtted byaclrvlhes and results and to delermlne OCtober '01the millal Viability of the corrtdor conceptand adapt the strategy and/or plannedactlvllles If necessary

Personnel CI-? SM8CProgram Manager,5MBC Program Staff. CItechnlcal team StarrResources Staff time,local and Internationaltravel

53,06

x

1,4 Participatory planning andImplementation framework andprocess established

1 4 11ActlVlty completed wrthin 11 4 1NSMNP Must conllnue toengage stakeholders In otherportions of the corridor Referto ActIVity 1 4 1 In FY '00lmplementallon Plan

CI·Phrlrppmes wdl contmue to Identlfypotential candrdates for LocalCoordinating Unlts (LeUs) In rdenlJriedproVInceS and secure Ihe Irst ofIdentrfled leu candidates for CagsyanProvrnce from Ihe Cagayan ValleyProgram on EnVIronment andDevelopment (CAVAPED) LCUs wmcoordinate and facilrtate comdoraclrvilies althe sIte level

LCU established for Cagayan byApril '01lnlllallrst of polenlral Leumembers for IdanllfJed provincescompleled by seplemeber '01

List of eSlabllshed LCU jPersonnel CloP SM8Cmembers for Cagayan and Program Manager, Srtepotential memebrs for Coordinator Resources'ldenllfled provinces Staff Irme, iocaltravel,

meellng venues

12,574

xl xl xl xl XIXI xl xl xl xl x

FY'01 New AcllvJlry 142 CI-Phlltpplnes wrll conllnuepresentations of the Sierra MadreBIodiverSity Corrrdor framework andprOVide activity updates and addrtlonalInformatIOn to stakeholders at variouslevels DENR's regIonal and provincIaloffices, Communrly Envrronment andNatural Resources Offrce (CENRO) InRegions 2 and 4, Local GovemmenlUnlls, provincral and munrclpalgovemments m Idenl1fled prOVinces andpeople's organlzallons (POs) withcommunrty-based forest managementagreements wrthln the 5MBC

Atleasl one consullahon evenlWllhm each Idenllrted comdorprovince and olher stakeholders(DENR, academra, elc ) conductedby July '01

Presentallons, meelingreports

Personnel CloPDirector, 5MBCProgram Manager. SrteCoordinators, CI-PCommurcallOnsManager CommUnltyOrganIZersResources Staff trme,tocaltravel. workshopsupplies and venue

14,64

xl XI XI XIXI XI XI XI Xl x

FY '01 New ActIVIty 143 CI-Phtlrppmes w11J conduct bIannual ITwo coorclinallon/updale meellngs !Meetrng reportsmeellngs WIth Idenllfied SM8C partners held by Oelober '01Foundatron for PhDrpplne EnVironment(FPE), Plan International (PI), NabonalIntegrated Protected Area Inc (NIPA),Department of Envrronment and NaturalResources (DENR), Natronal EconomIcDevelopmenl AuthOrity (NEDA) andLocal Govemment Unrls (LGUs)(provrnclat and munlcrpal) 10 coordinate5MBC acllVllres and rnform partners ofnew developments

Personnel CI·PDlreclor, $clenceDlreclor, 5MBCProgram Manager, SIteCoorcllnators ResourcesLocal travel,communlcatJon, meetrngvenue and supplies

15,268

x x

1.5 Corridor project toamoperational

1 5 llAU posrllons rdled except 11 5 1resource economrst Refer 10ActIVIty 1 5 1 of FY '00Implementalron Plan

CI·Phrllpplnes Will hIre a resourceeconomrst and alleasl 2 communrtyOrganrzers

Resource Economrst, Communrty Ilrst of team members and IPersonnel CI-POrganizers hired by January '01 agreed TORs for posrtlon Drrector, Corridor

Management Team,Resources Siaff lime

1,003

xlxlxl x

1 6 Research long-tann financialmechanisms

FY '01 New AcllVlty 152 CI-PhUrpplnes will malnlaln 1 OI).Slte ITwo offices In the field contarnrng IOffICe lease agreementsoffICe al Tuguegarao and a sub-offlce at facilities and eqUipment operallonalPalanan-NSMNP 10 accommodate the throughout FY '015MBC Program Manager, the SiteCoordinator for RegIOn 2 theCommunlly OrganIZer for Cagayan andQUlnno and one AdmlnlStralNeAssistant to facllliate corndorImplementallon and communrcatlons toCI-Phrlrpprnes Manila headquarters

Personnel CI_PDirector, Cl-? SCienceDIrector. CI-P 5MBCProgram Manager, SIteCoordinators,Community OrganizersResources equipment,travel, rent,communication,supplies, etc

22,862

- p""MiPtllJrnesFYO orlmPIPI"10-18o{)O_Phffl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

FYOl Conservatlon Inlematlonal- U5A1D1Globai Cooperative Agreement BiodIVersity Corridor Planning and Implemenlatlon Program (Corridor)Revised 10·16-00

1 6 11Aclivny delayed bydlplomallc/polltlcal Issuesbetween U S Treasury Deptand GOP regarding theTropICal Forest ConservatlonAct Refer 10 ActIVity 1 6 1 InFY 'DO Implemenlahon Plan

If pollhcallssues subside. the Cl-PDirector and el's Conservation FinanceManager will explore debt for natureswap opportunities and assess aspossible financing mechanIsm for theSIerra Madre BIodIVersity COrridor(SMBC)

Positioned Sierra MadreBIodIVersIty Corridor VIS-a-VIS usTropical Forest Conservation Actby end of FY'Ol

Letter of Intent byPhdlpplne Governmenl.

Record of negoUatlons IConservation Financebetween US and Philippine Managergovernments regarding Resources staff tllne.5MBC and TFCA travel

xl XI XI XI xl xlXIXIXlxlxIX

1.7 Awareness programEstabllsh9d

1 7 11 Draft communicatIOn slralegy 11 7 1has been developed Pleaserefer to AcllVlty 1 7 1 of FY '00Implementallon Plan

172

173

Cl's Internallonal Communlcallons Communications stralegy for IStrategy document.Department and CI·Phmppmes· 5MBC completed by December '00 Corridor InformatlonCommunications Manager wIll finaflze a Presentaflon malena(s (or 5MBC brochure, presenlalconscommunlcahons and oulr$ach strategy stakeholders and partners and other materialsfor 5MBC. mcludlng design of an (powerpomt presentation. slidesawareneoss campaIgn for conservahon and a brochure) produced andWIthin Northern Sierra Madre Natural disseminated to key stakeholdersPark, and promotion of the corrldor Within identified 5MBC provmcesframework to key polley makers m by september '01government agencIes through matenals 5MBC Brochure produced anddevelopment and dIssemInatIon and dlssemlnallon 10 identified deCISionpresentaltons at slakeholder workshops makers commenced byand consultallons Cl-Phlhpplnes September '01Commu01callons Staff will developeducational materials to be used by IheCI·Phlllpplnes SIte Coordmalors andCommurllly Organizers In outreachefforts to 5MBC stakeholders andpolenllal partners CI.PhlllpplnesCommunications Staff WIll produce anInformatIonal brochure on the SIerraMadre B1Qcl!verslty Corndor fordIssemInatIon 10 provincIalgovernments. regional governmentagencies and olher current andpolenllal 5MBC partners

Cl's InternatIonal Communlcallons 13 PSAs produced and broadcast IPSA video clipsDepartment and CI·Ps Communications by September '01Staff wdl develop three Public ServiceAnnouncemenls (PSAs) onconservahon Significance of SierraMadre for nallonaltelevlslon and radIO

CI-Phlhpplnes' CommunIcations Staff IAtieast 3 products/evenls ICopy of press releaseswl1l develop medIa even!s and products conductedJproduced by September allendance lists from(such as press releases dISCUSSing Cl- '01 eventsP's mvolvemenl In the NSMNP, anenvIronmental book launching, exhlbltisdISplaYing photographs of 5MBC andNSMNPJ to ralSe nalronal awareness ofbIodIVersity conservation In general andWllhln 5MBC

Personnel CI·PCommunicationsManager, Cl·InternationalCommumcallons Staff,Research AsSistant.Site CoordinatorsResources Staff time.dIsplay matenals,pnnllng, graphic designconsultation. local andInternal10naltravet

Personnel CI-PCommunlcatlonsManager. C/·InternatlonalCOmmunicahons Slafl,Resources Staff time,local travel, Internationaltravel, audlolvlsUalstudio equlpmenl use

Personnel CI-PCommunicatIOns StaffResources Staff time.locallravet, pnnllng,display costs, venuerental

Total

16.

6,25

306.317 61,800

2.000

14.300 1.800

XIXIX

18.846

x I XI xl XI xl xl xl xl XI xl xl x

xl XI XI XI xl xl xl xl xl 'I xl x

18.848

- P~"~:~~ldortrnpl~10-15-(lO_ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

FYD1 Conserval.1cn Internallonal - U5AIOIGlobai Cooperative Agreemenl Biodiversity Corridor Planning and Implamenlatlon Program (Corndor)Revised 10-18-00

1.1 Biodiversity corridorassessmQnt completod (baselinelegal, biological, economic endsocial assessments/datagathered)

~

111

112

BlodlVersll.y comdor assessmentcompleted(basellne legal, biologIcal,economIC, and socIal assessments/dalagathered)

Techmcal focus groups wm be formedaround each report produced by theRACE In Year 2 These groups willrefine and Improve the reports. andserve as a vehtcle for strengtheningconsensus buddIng InllJated In thereVIew and consultaUons earned outtOWards the end of Year 3

RevIew Meellng(s)

Updated Threat reports generated IlIstlng of technIcal groupdUring FY '02 memIJersTechnical focus group consultalton final reportsevents performed dUring FY '02

113 A further report wdl be produced gIVing ICommunlty livelIhoods reportan overvIew of communIty livelihoods, completed In FY '02theIr reliance andlor Impacts on 5MBC Key Informanl partiCipatoryhabitats, end social feaslb~lly Issues worKshop conducted in FY '02across SM8C ThIS report wtIl be basedon the results of a key Informantparticipatory workshop WIth NGO andother non-governmenllnshlutlon fieldexlenslon workers

Report, IIsl of workshoppartICipants

1.2 Integrated corridorinformation system dosignedand operational

1 3 COrridor learningsystem/adaptive management inplace and operational

1 4 PartiCipatory planning andImplementation framework andprocess established

1 5 Corridor proJect teamoperational

1 6 Research long-tonn financialmochamsms

114 The techmcal foct.Js groups andcommunity llvehhoods Workshop WIll befollowed by a workshop for senior leveldeCISIon makers from communilles.government and the private sector 10raise awareness for and discuss lheeconomIc justIfication for the SM8C

SenIOr level decisIon-makerconsultatIons and workshopperformed durIng FY '02

list of worJ...shoppartIcipants


1 6 1 IExplore opporlunllJes for long·termftmnancmg of NSMNP

- P.,,~

FYO dortmPIP_10-1S-QO.Phil - - - -

') ,

- - - - - - - - - - -

Program: Philippines

Objective 2:

Protected areas created.strenqlhened and/or extended

Yoar 2 Objective 2 level of effort:USAIO-GJENV

CI.Troplcal WDdemess Protection Fundcr-FlfSt Philippine ConservatIOn Inc

CI·Olher SourcesCI·INTEL

USArD - Pt@PPllleSTotal for Objective 2

FY01 Censervallon lnlemnllon&· USAIDTGlobai COOpef1lllvCl AgfeClT.enl Blod....erslly Corridor Planning WJ,d Irnplemenlallon Program (Corridor)Revised 10-18.<JO


Framework for reversing process of habllatloss Inside NSMNP In placeNSMNP Infraslructure slrengthenedNSMNP staff Increased and trainedNSMNP enforcement capacity strengthenedOther benchmarks 10 be developed as Corridor projeci takes form

38,683oo

68,142oo

108,825

~~

2.1 New protectl,ld areas (protectedareas, private reserves, indigenousreserves/terrltorlos) are created

2.2 Protected area levolinfrastructure In place (parkguards, posls, etc)

2 2 1 IDepullZallon of NSMNP guards 12 2 1has oCl:urred Paralegal (rainIng ofNSNMP guards IS ongoing Refer10 ActlVIly 2 2 1 of FY '00Implementation Plan

CI-PhllippTries wtif Conduct 2 traln[ng IAt least 2 Iralnlng sessions I Tramlng module. list ofsessions (one [n DlVllacan and one tn conducled 10 75 partiCipants by participantsMaconacon Isabela) These lralnmgs Aprd '01wm Include paralegallralnrng forNSMNP park guards. ecologyledures for park guards and trainingof guards to conducl Information,Educallon and Communication (IEC)acliVllies IEC Iralnlng Will beprOVided In order 10 ennch parkpersonnel's knowledge of blodIVersllyconservallon Issues and 10 train themlIn conducting awareness raiSingacllVfles In the communliles 10 whIchIhey are assigned

Personnel 5MBCProgram Manager.Sile Coordtnators.CommunityOrgamzersResources StaffUrne, local travel,venue rental. prlnllngand associated castsfor training malerlalsdevelopment

9,477

xixlxixlxixlx

2 2 2 IFY '01 New AcUvlly

FY '01 New ActlVlly

2.3 Strengthen or extend existingprotected areas

222

223

CI·Phdlppines WIll conlinue to extend ITWO 5-day training sessIons ITralnlng module IIsloftechn[cal and financIal support, conducled wl!h POs In Cagayan partiCIpantslralnlng on financial management, and isabela provinces conductedconnlcl resoluUon and networkmg to by June '01eslabllshed Peoples' OrganizationsIn Cagayan and lsabela provtncesTechnical support Will mcludeassistance m accesSing fundmg foroperallons

Cl.PhlllpPlnes Will contmue to provide FIeld supplies (rain coals ILISI of supplies purchased,In-kind support (supplies of malerlals flashlights rain bools. fuel for sale recelplsfor park patrol) 10 the Protected Area boat patrOl. food prOVISIon dunngSuperintendent of NSMNP to fIeldwork, unl[orms) for parksirenghten effecllVeness of park supelVlslon negoilated,managemenl purchased and dls!rrbuled by

September '01

') .

Personnel 5MBCProgram Manager,SUe Coordinators,CommunslyOrgamzersResources StafflIme, locallravel.venue rental

Personnel CI·P5MBC ProgramManager, SiteCoordinator,CommunityOrganizerResources SiaffIme fleldsuooJi,

7,773

2,675

xl xl xl xl xl xl x

xl xl xl xl xl xl xl x

PRl9,~m I'hWpplnosf"YOf FINAl CDfTldollmpl P~n I'hllipp~ 10-18-00f'hIDppme:lOb]2- - -- - - - - - • - - - - - - - - -

FYOl Con:ocNallon lntemallonal- USAIOJGlobal Coop&raUvll AgrlleO\l!nt BiodIVersity Corridor PlllnnJng and Implemllnlabon Program (Corridor)Revlsed1G-18-00

CI WIll gather ififormatlOn from CI andl Report contalOlng Informationother msUiutlons on their expenences from at leasl 3 CI expenencesIn the Philippines and elsewhere In produced by September '01the creation of protected areas, andIdenllfy the critiCal factors whIChInfluenced the success of alternativeapproaches ThiS InfonnatlOn Win beused In conjunction WIth the findingsof the RACE (ActivIty 1 1 6) toassess which approaches are bestwithin the 5MBC and buddconsensus behind speCific protectedarea emallon activities

2 4 Develop and lmplamentmanagement plans for new andexisting protected areas

2.5 capacity-building at the levelof new and existing protectedareas

2 6 Infonnation gathering,Intooratlon and analysis forprotected area creation andstmngthenlng (new Dr targetedbiological, social, legal and/oreconomic data)

xlxlxl XI XI XI XIXI XI Xl X

~

~

2 7 Develop and Implementawamness campaign for neW orexisting protected areas

FY '01 New ActivIty 271 CI-PMlpplnes wllJ deSign andconducllocal information educatIOnand commumcahon (tEC) activitIesInclUdingaj Lectures concerning ecology,biodIVersIty conservation,environmental protection and wlldlJfemanagement to targeted audiences(local communilles and sludenls) atthe training sessIons oonducted InDJVllacan and Maconacon (refer toActIVity 2 2 1)b) CreaUng an ecologICal display 1M

the Integrated Protecled AreasSystem (IPAS) office of theProtected Areas Superintendent(PASu) of NSMNP

2 Ecology lectures conducted to ITralnlng module, list of75 partICipants by April '01 participantsEcology displays exhiblted al Ecology display photosIPAS Genter by March '01

Personnel Cl-PCommunication Staff,5MBC ProgramManager, CI~PBotanist, SiteCoordinatorResources StafflIme, display supplies

7.074

XIXI XIXI Xl X

FY '01 New ActIVIty 272 CI-Phlllppmes-wlllbegln creation ofan InterpretJVe faCility at Its 16hectare plot Wllhln NSMNP anddevelopment of the plot as a venuefor research acllVllles

Tree species identification signs ITree lags/signs and MOA{Sllpersonnel CI·Pon access road trees In place by Botanist and supportJuly '01 51aft, Forest CrewDeSIgn of faCIlity completed by Resources StaffApril '01 lime, Iree lags, palnlMOAs Signed WIth at least 1unIVersIty and potentially otherresearch entllles (such asEarthwatch) to hosl students bySeptember '01

13,84ProposalPendln

xl xlxl xl xl xl Xl xl XIXI Xl X

2 8 Promote restoration andenvironmentally compatibleactivities In protected areas

281 Reforestation assessmenl for Blue 12 B 1Lagoon aqUifer In Villa Roblescompleted Proposal forreforestallon WIthin oomdor areacompleted and submllied 10 CABS,awaIting deCISion on funding ReIerto ActIVity 2 8 1 In FY '00Implementation Plan

CI.PhlllpPlnes WIll flnahze both therehabliitation/reforestallon plan forIhe blue lagoon reforestation projectand the NSMNP research plan forsubmISSion to a donal for futurefunding

RehabllJlallonlreforestatlon plan IRehabllllatJon/reforeslallonflnahzed and research plan plan and research plan,submitted by end of CY '00 P"iJedt report

Personnel CI·PDIrector, 5MBCManager, CI-PBotanISt,Resources slafftime, local travel

Total 38,683

50000ProposalPending

68,142

XIXIXIX

ProgrAm Philipp""'"FY01 fiNAl CorriclDr Impl PIu" PhiTrpf'll1CS 10.-16-00Fhlf",pll'1e:lObj2- - -- - - - - - .. - - - - - - - - -

2.1 New protected areas (protectedaross. privata rGSGIVOS, Indigenousreserves/territories) are created

2.2 Protected aroa levelInfrastructum in place (parkguards. posts. etc)

2 3 Strengthen or extend existingprotec:ted areas

2.4 Develop and Implementmanagement plans for new andexisting protectod aroas

2.5 Capaclty.bulldlng at tho lovelof now and eXIsting protectedareas

2 6lnformatlO-n gathering,mtegratlon and analysis forprotected ama creation andstrengthening (new or targetedblotoglcal. social. legal and/oreconomic data)

2.7 Develop and implementawareness campaign for new orexisting protected areas

2 8 Promote restoration andenvironmentally compatibleactivities in protocted areas

FY01 ConSllf\lation International· USAIOIGlobai Cooperative Agroemcnt Blodlverslry Cemdor Planning and Implementation Program (Cottldor)Rcvlsed10·1S-OO

2 4 1 IStakeholder meetmgs to discussIssues, dlssemmate Informallon andbUild consensus on parkmanagement strategies ror NSMNP

'I •

~

Program PlIlllpp!l>esFYOI FINAL Camelot Impl PI4n Phiipplf\e3; 10-16_00

Phl!il'lIln"s Obi 2- - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Progmm: Philippines

Objectivo3.

Core nuclei of protected areaseslabllshed

Year 2 Objective 3 level of effort

USAID-GIENVCI-Tropical W~demess Protection

FundCI-FJrst PhilipPine Conservallon tnc

CI-OtherCl-lntel

USAID - PhlllppmesTotal for Objective 3

3 11ldenhfy and momtor the priority areasand connectIOns wilhln the nucleararea to besl prolect blmflverslly

3113 21 PrOmole environmentally compatIble

actIVIties In comdor buffer zones321

3 31 Engage core nuclei stakeholders forfuture collidor developmentJworkshops, lobbying fpromoUflgl)

331341 EconomiC analYSIS and poliCY Jevel

work and/or analySIS 10 Identify landuses that meet conservationobjectIVes at nucleI level

3413 51Awareness program designed and

made operational351

3 61 Seled IndICator species and promoteresearch on them for Integrahon atIhe COrridor level

3613 711nformahon gathering. Integrallon and

analySIS for core nuclei (new orlargeted biologIcal, social. legal andlorleconomic data)

3 11ldentlfy and manner the prlOflty areasand connections Within the nUcleararea to best protect blodlVerslly

J 1 1 IChoose and momtor selectedIndicators of connectionsuceess(blologlcal, SOCioeconomic,spatial (land cover). atlttudes policies

3 1 2 Choose pnonty areas for mduslOn Innucleus

3 1 3 DeSign boundanes for nucler3 21 Promote enVIronmentally compatible

actIVIties In COrridor buffer zones3 2 1 Explore enterprise development In

connectIons3 2 2 Reforestallon projects/rehab323 /Promote best prachces for specific

achvlhes (e g mlmng Induslryloggmg)

3 31 Engage core nucleI stakeholders forfuture comdor development(workshOps, lobbYing Ipromo1lngl)

33 1 IWork With slClkeholders (alf levels) forland use planmng

fY01 Conservation Intemaboni;ll- USAlD/Global Coopcri;lllllo Ag~ement BiodIVersIty Corrklor Planning and Implementation Program (Canldar)Rcvlslan10-18-lJO


Plan for restoration and connection completed, presenled, and Implemented

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~

P"'lITam PhiUpp"u'$FYOl FINAL Comdor Impl Pill" f'lJiljppll1"'" 1Q.-1f1..OOPhilipp",..,.Ob/J

- - - - - - - - - "- - - - - - - - - -

3.41 EconomIc analysis and polley levelwork andlor analYSis 10 Idenllfy landuses thaI meet conservaftanobjectives at nuclei level

3 4. 1 IPehllons elc, versus logging aMmining concessIons (In connecl1ons,not parks)

342 IWork With government etc, topromote enfofC(lment of loggIng bansand licensing agreements (Inconnechons, nat parks

3 4 3 PACE al re lanai level3 4 4 Consul! wJlh government for nlW/

zonln!=! connecllons3 4 5 IDesign possible polley Inlervenllons

for connecllons3 4 6 Ipromote best practices for regional

ooerahons

3 51AwareneSs prOgTam designed andmade oPerational

:3 5 1 ICommunlc strategy Implemented In NQuezon, Qulrlno, Ca!layan

352 ICommunlcatlon strategies as neededInnudel

3 61 Selecl Indlcalor species and promoteresearch on them for Integration atthe corridor level

3 e 1 IIncorporated Inlo 3 13 711nformatlon gathering, integratIon and

analYSIs for core nudellnew Orlargeted biological, social legal and/orleconomic dalal

371 IAssess stakeholders and InsiliullonsIn nuclei

3 7 2 Spallallnlonnallon3 7 3 CoHect and analyze data for

connectIOns for gaps identifIed In 1 6and 1~ln local stakeholders In thesemethods biologIcal, SOCIal, economiC,legal. DOlillcal

FY01 Conservallon tnlernaUonal· USAIDlSlobal Cooperative AgfClement Biodiverslty Gonldor PlannIng and lmplemllnta~cn Program (CCITldor)Revision 10·18.lJO

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AIAI

Al

AI

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PrOlll'llmPhIDpPln~

fYOl FINAl CoJTidCf Imp' Pili" Philipp11lIlS 1001e.ooPhilippines Obj 3- - - - - - - - -

11

- - - - - - - - - -

Program: Philippines

Objective 4:

BIodIVersity comdor of connected core nucleieslabllshed

Year 2 Objective 4 level of effort:USAID-GIENV

4 11 Collect biological, economic, and SOCIaldata to identify pnonty areas forconnection, momtor conidor successand bUild local capacity

4114 21 Design and promote polley

interventIons to alter economIcdeclslon-makmg environment acrosscomdor

4214 31 Select and collect mformatlon on

population genetIcs for monitonng ofcorridor effiCiencY

4314 41 Promote changes In legislation

incompatIble with comdor goals IS

completed441

4 51 Develop market o:mnectlons foralternative certified products/goodsfrom the corridor

4514 611nfonnatlon gathenng, Integration, and

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4614 7 Awareness program designed and

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4 41 Promote changes in legislationIncompatible with comdor goals iscomcleted

4 4 1IInfluence natlonallregllandscapelJocallegislation for enVironment

4 51 Develop market connecllOns foralternative certified products/goodsfrom the comdo(

4 5 11 Design alternatIVe market access forcammunlcs

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