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easier for policy makers to consent management actions designed to rebuild and
sustain resilience.
Similarly, the indicators contribute greatly to resilience-focused SEPLS governance. They offer a method for assessing landscape changes as perceived by local
landscape users, and evaluating landscape interventions as part of an adaptive management process. As such, they represent a potentially powerful tool for governance
and sustainability planning. Community-based management actions based on their
use have already proven effective in protecting local biodiversity while enhancing
rural livelihoods and revitalizing local cultures in landscapes and seascapes covered
under the COMDEKS program (UNDP 2018).
6.3.2 Using the Indicators for Community Benefits
Under the “GEF-Satoyama Project”
The project “Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable
Management in Priority Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes”
(or the “GEF-Satoyama Project”) was developed with the aim of achieving societies
in harmony with nature with a sustainable primary production sector based on traditional and modern wisdom, to make significant contributions to global targets for
conservation of biological diversity. The project consists of three mutually interacting components: on-the-ground demonstration, with investments in ten subgrant
projects in ten countries from the Indo-Burma, Tropical Andes, and Madagascar and
Indian Ocean Islands Biodiversity Hotspots; knowledge generation through case
studies and mapping; and capacity-building and awareness raising. The GEFSatoyama Project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented by Conservation International and executed by Conservation International
Japan in cooperation with UNU-IAS and the Institute for Global Environmental
Strategies (IGES).
The indicators were applied for baseline and progress monitoring under the
GEF-Satoyama Project. All ten proponents of the site-based projects
1
conducted
assessments using the indicators of resilience at the beginning and end of the implementation of their projects’ interventions to document the status of landscape or
seascape resilience. The assessment is designed as a participatory process that
engages a variety of stakeholders including community members, civil society organizations, government agencies, and others. The use of the indicators enables the
1 The subgrant proponents are: Asociación Amazónicos por la Amazonia (AMPA), Peru; Dahari,
Comoros; Environmental Protection and Conservation Organization (EPCO), Mauritius; Fauna
and Flora International (FFI), Myanmar; Fundación para la Investigación y Desarrollo Social
(FIDES), Ecuador; Green Islands Foundation (GIF), Seychelles; Inter Mountain Peoples’
Education and Culture in Thailand (IMPECT), Thailand; The Energy and Resources Institute
(TERI), India; Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Colombia; and Wildlife Conservation
Society (WCS), Madagascar.
W. Dunbar et al.
easier for policy makers to consent management actions designed to rebuild and
sustain resilience.
Similarly, the indicators contribute greatly to resilience-focused SEPLS governance. They offer a method for assessing landscape changes as perceived by local
landscape users, and evaluating landscape interventions as part of an adaptive management process. As such, they represent a potentially powerful tool for governance
and sustainability planning. Community-based management actions based on their
use have already proven effective in protecting local biodiversity while enhancing
rural livelihoods and revitalizing local cultures in landscapes and seascapes covered
under the COMDEKS program (UNDP 2018).
6.3.2 Using the Indicators for Community Benefits
Under the “GEF-Satoyama Project”
The project “Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable
Management in Priority Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes”
(or the “GEF-Satoyama Project”) was developed with the aim of achieving societies
in harmony with nature with a sustainable primary production sector based on traditional and modern wisdom, to make significant contributions to global targets for
conservation of biological diversity. The project consists of three mutually interacting components: on-the-ground demonstration, with investments in ten subgrant
projects in ten countries from the Indo-Burma, Tropical Andes, and Madagascar and
Indian Ocean Islands Biodiversity Hotspots; knowledge generation through case
studies and mapping; and capacity-building and awareness raising. The GEFSatoyama Project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented by Conservation International and executed by Conservation International
Japan in cooperation with UNU-IAS and the Institute for Global Environmental
Strategies (IGES).
The indicators were applied for baseline and progress monitoring under the
GEF-Satoyama Project. All ten proponents of the site-based projects
1
conducted
assessments using the indicators of resilience at the beginning and end of the implementation of their projects’ interventions to document the status of landscape or
seascape resilience. The assessment is designed as a participatory process that
engages a variety of stakeholders including community members, civil society organizations, government agencies, and others. The use of the indicators enables the
1 The subgrant proponents are: Asociación Amazónicos por la Amazonia (AMPA), Peru; Dahari,
Comoros; Environmental Protection and Conservation Organization (EPCO), Mauritius; Fauna
and Flora International (FFI), Myanmar; Fundación para la Investigación y Desarrollo Social
(FIDES), Ecuador; Green Islands Foundation (GIF), Seychelles; Inter Mountain Peoples’
Education and Culture in Thailand (IMPECT), Thailand; The Energy and Resources Institute
(TERI), India; Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Colombia; and Wildlife Conservation
Society (WCS), Madagascar.
W. Dunbar et al.