negative impacts on biodiversity resources in and around protected areas, and community negative impacts on conservation areas biodiversity resources in and around 7 Category II Step up: protected areas thus Good practices ensuring benefits for replicated and scaled up community outside SGP supported livelihoods, areas, as appropriate contributing to sustainability. SGP BD Outcome 1.2: Benefits generated at the To implement at least community level from Number of 4 projects aimed at conservation of community members community level biodiversity in and with improved actions to protect wild around protected areas livelihoods related to animals and plants and community benefits from that are among conservation areas protected species included into Category II Step up: the Red Book of Number of SGP case studies. Sustainable financial Belarus. significant species mechanisms for benefit with maintained or SGP grantee data generation identified and To implement at least improved from innovative piloted, as appropriate 3 projects aimed at conservation status monitoring approaches community level SGP BD Outcome 1.3: actions in SPT for Number and hectares Increased recognition sustainable utilization of significant and integration of of swamp ecosystems ecosystems with community conservation and peat bogs, maintained or areas in national including restoring improved protected area systems and utilizing of conservation status swamps, peat bogs Category II Step up: that are not under Information industrial use any recognition of more, renaturalizing indigenous and of wetlands (swamps) community conservation etc. areas within national level protected area systems shared through an established network, as appropriate SGP OP5 Immediate Objective 2 Mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into production landscapes and sectors through community initiatives and actions Hectares of SGP BD Outcome 2.1: To implement at least Improved community production 2 projects aimed at level sustainable use of landscapes GEF SGP database, community level biodiversity in improved sustainable SGP Web-site, project actions aiming at production landscapes use practices, leading, reports and monitoring conserving biological through community where possible, to visits. and landscape based initiatives, certification through diversity in case of frameworks and market recognized SGP case studies and agricultural mechanisms, including environmental photo stories production with the recognized standards that most efficient environmental standards incorporate
negative impacts on biodiversity resources in and around protected areas, and community conservation areas Category II Step up: 7 Good practices replicated and scaled up outside SGP supported areas, as appropriate SGP BD Outcome 1.2: Benefits generated at the community level from conservation of biodiversity in and around protected areas and community conservation areas Category II Step up: Sustainable financial mechanisms for benefit generation identified and piloted, as appropriate SGP BD Outcome 1.3: Increased recognition and integration of community conservation areas in national protected area systems Category II Step up: Information recognition of indigenous and community conservation areas within national level protected area systems shared through an established network, as appropriate Number of community members with improved livelihoods related to benefits from protected Number of significant species with maintained or improved conservation status Number and hectares of significant ecosystems with maintained or improved conservation status SGP case studies. SGP grantee data from innovative monitoring approaches negative impacts on biodiversity resources in and around protected areas thus ensuring benefits for community livelihoods, contributing to sustainability. To implement at least 4 projects aimed at community level actions to protect wild animals and plants that are among species included into the Red Book of Belarus. To implement at least 3 projects aimed at community level actions in SPT for sustainable utilization of swamp ecosystems and peat bogs, including restoring and utilizing of swamps, peat bogs that are not under industrial use any more, renaturalizing of wetlands (swamps) etc. SGP OP5 Immediate Objective 2 Mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into production landscapes and sectors through community initiatives and actions SGP BD Outcome 2.1: Improved community level sustainable use of biodiversity in production landscapes through community based initiatives, frameworks and market mechanisms, including recognized environmental standards Hectares of production landscapes improved sustainable use practices, leading, where possible, to certification through recognized environmental standards that incorporate GEF SGP database, SGP Web-site, project reports and monitoring visits. SGP case studies and photo stories To implement at least 2 projects aimed at community level actions aiming at conserving biological and landscape diversity in case of agricultural production with the most efficient
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