Brazil: ASL Xingu project

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The purpose of the Project is to enhance the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources in selected areas in the Lower Xingu region through conservation mechanisms and sustainable production alternatives that improve the connectivity between landscapes, ecosystem services, and environmental services. Its specific objectives include: (a) to strengthen the management of protected areas at the landscape scale, based on consolidated conservation models and use of natural resources assigned for their categories; (b) to foster and support the development of economic activities based on forests and waters, thus generating income and benefits for local communities and strengthening the management of the individual areas and their integration into the landscape; (c) to propose action plans for public policies for conservation and local development for the Lower Xingu region, with active social participation to guide government action in the territory while strengthening opportunities for civic participation; and (d) to reinforce the instruments and means for the integrated management of information and knowledge in the Lower Xingu region, based on local social, technical and scientific potential, thereby leveraging opportunities for greater visibility and fundraising. The Project is divided into four components: management of protected areas, sustainable economic development, enabling policies, and knowledge and communication management, and project management, monitoring and evaluation.Component 1: Strengthening conservation and management of selected areas. This component aims to improve the management of the Project’s selected areas, through strengthening technical capacity and supporting implementation of both specific and integrated management tools, such as living natural resources management, and increasing participation in territorial management and species monitoring in the face of climate change. This component will help protect native vegetation, enhancing carbon storage in soils and vegetations thus contributing to climate mitigationComponent 2: Socio-bioeconomy enhancing sustainable production. The concept of socio-bioeconomy is still fluid and evolving. The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) and state of Para have been developing bioeconomy strategies fostering a transition to a low carbon economy, resilient to the impacts of climate change, to generate social, environmental, and economic benefits and to overcome poverty through the socio-bioeconomy. These strategies are based on three thematic axes: (a) research, development, and innovation; (b) productive chains and sustainable businesses; and (c) genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge. This component aims to incentivize socio-bioeconomy and enhance local livelihoods by supporting the participation of IP and TPC, small farmers, family farmers, and their enterprises in socio-bioeconomy initiatives linked to the production, including forest restoration value chain. The component will emphasize enhancing women’s skills, engagement, and leadership.Component 3: People, water and forest: reinforcing enabling environment. This component aims to improve the implementation of public policies for territorial governance and management, while strengthening spaces for citizen participation.Component 4: Edu-communication, and integrated knowledge and information management. This component aims to strengthen production, use and dissemination of local and regional information, promote knowledge management and capacity building.Component 5: Project management, monitoring and evaluation. This component will support overall project management, including financial management (FM), procurement, social and environmental risk management, monitoring and evaluation activities, and coordination with the ASL ProgramThe Project considers an integrated landscape approach, allocating and managing land use to achieve social, economic and environmental objectives, and strengthen climate resilience. Close coordination and collaboration with the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Regional Project and all other national ASL projects, with the current Brazil ASL Project (P158000), is considered critical for the successful implementation of the proposed Project. The Project will also be coordinated with other programs and projects in the Amazon biome.