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Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA II)
ACP/FED/038-593

Agreement No. ACP/FED/038-593: Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA II) for an amount of €60.0 million was signed on 9 June 2017. The programme will be implemented over a period of 72 months excluding the closure phase fixed at 24 months.

Implementation modality

Direct management – procurement of services – administrative arrangement with the Joint Research Centre (JRC);

Direct management – grants – direct award to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Objectives

Specific objective 1: Reference Information Systems for biodiversity and protected areas management are maintained and enhanced at global, ACP and Regional levels;

Specific objective 2: The Regional Observatories (ROs), mandated by regional institutions and hosting the PRIS, are used by stakeholders to improve planning and decision making for biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management and governance;

Specific objective 3: On the basis of the management and governance priorities, planning and implementation of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services and sustainable natural resource management

Expected results

  • PA assessments by national PA agencies, using appropriate assessment tools, are implemented systematically for planning and decision-making;
  • Required management actions, as identified by appropriate management and governance assessment tools, are implemented in pilot Pas in the conservation landscapes, including SIDS.

 

“The programme is ongoing and the implementation period was extended at no-cost to end in   December 2025  due to delays caused by COVID-19 pandemic.

The Mid Term Review (MTR) was completed in the last half of 2021 to assess the design, performance, and impact of the programme and identify lessons learnt to improve its strategy and implementation of activities for the remainder of the programme.

 

The last Programme Steering Committee Meeting was held 27 October 2022.The following are the most recent programme updates: BIOPAMA Mid-term Review recommendations were adopted, to guide the future orientation of all programme components, including the RIS, the regional observatories the grant-making facility, and sustainability of the Programme

 

More programme updates will emerge from the BIOPAMA global  coordination meeting scheduled to be held from 18 September 2023.

 

Regional Observatories are now in place and and continue to be  updated. They can be accessed at the following link; https://rris.biopama.org/dashboard

 

The Global Regional Information Systems (RIS) managed by JRS is in place  and is regularly updated.

 

Major development on the RIS , design improvements, and new backend architecture provides  better user interface and dynamic interactive tools for conservation tracking including Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool (IMET), Protected Area Governance and Equity(PAGE) – refer to, for:Eastern Africa

https://esahub.rcmrd.org/en/

Central Africa

https://www.observatoire-comifac.net/analytical_platform

 

West Africa

https://www.obapao.org/en

 

Caribbeanhttps://caribbeanprotectedareasgateway.com/

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Pacific

https://pipap.sprep.org/

 

 

The Action Grant component for the 2020 call for proposals is ongoing and grantees are being awarded, on an ongoing basis. The following is the grant allocation per region:

·      Caribbean: 3 M allocated, 2.5 M Committed, and 0.5 M remaining.

·      Central Africa 3 M allocated, 0.7 M committed, and 2.3 remaining

·      Eastern Africa 3 M allocated, 2.0 M committed, and 1 M remaining

·      Pacific 3 M allocated, 1.6 Allocated and 1.4 Remaining

·      Southern Africa 3 M allocated, 2.0 Committed and 1M remaining

·      West Africa 3 M allocated, 2M committed and 1 M remaining

 

The final/ last calls for proposals were announced regionally in 2022 –  concluded and awarded.

 

Beneficiary countries

Chad, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea, CAR, Sao tome & Principe, Cameroon, Gabon, Antiqua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Dominican Rep, Guyana, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, PNG, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Palau, Dominica, St. Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Gambia, Cabo Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Botswana, Eritrea, Eswatini, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, South Africa. Regional organisations are: Central African forest commission’s mission of Observation (COMIFAC), ECOWAS, University of West Indies, 9UWI), SPREP. Information links are:

www.biopama.org

For more information, contact: Department of Environment and Climate Action.

Beneficiary countries

For more information, contact: Department of Sustainable Economic Development and Trade