Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund 2

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The Global Second Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Project's (CEPF-2) Objective is to strengthen the involvement and effectiveness of civil society in contributing to the conservation and management of globally important biodiversity. The first project component is strengthening protection and management of globally significant biodiversity. CEPF-2 would focus on key biodiversity areas and address threats to biodiversity across broad landscapes that include a matrix o f land uses, including protected areas, biological corridors and high value conservation sites in production landscapes, including indigenous reserves, community and private lands managed for a conservation objective. The second component is to increase the local and national capacity to integrate biodiversity conservation into development and landscape planning. Mobilizing civil society to play a more effective role in this process is the CEPF niche. Grantees range from individuals, farming cooperatives and community organizations to research institutions, private sector organizations, and national and international NGOs. The third component is monitoring and knowledge sharing. This component would support monitoring and evaluation o f individual projects and programs and deriving and sharing lessons learned within the hotspot. The fourth and final component is the ecosystem profile development and project execution. This component would support three subcomponents a) the development o f ecosystem profiles; b) the role o f the Regional Implementation Teams as an extension service and in grant-making; and c) overall execution and administration o f the global program by CI, through the CEPF Secretariat.