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Strategic Direction 5:
Reinforce and sustain the conservation gains achieved as a result of the initial 5-year CEPF investment in this region

Consolidating Key Management Actions in Indio Maiz Biological Reserve, Nicaragua, Phase II
Consolidate the conservation results achieved by earlier CEPF grants in Southeast Nicaragua, with a focus on Indio Maiz Biological Reserve, by promoting mechanisms for social, institutional, and financial sustainability.  This grant promotes several options for sustainable financing, expands sustainable cacao production, strengthens the institutional capacity of FUNDAR, and builds the capacity of an alliance of local NGOs and government agencies to promote sustainable development and conservation.

Amount $300,000
Grant Term 03/11 - 07/12
Grantee Fundación Amigos del Río San Juan
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Consolidating Key Management Actions in Indio Maiz Biological Reserve, Nicaragua
Consolidate the conservation results achieved by earlier CEPF grants in Southeast Nicaragua, with a focus on Indio Maiz, by promoting mechanisms for social, institutional and financial sustainability. Activities include promoting several options for sustainable financing of the Southeast Reserve system, further build the capacity of local nongovernmental organizations and government agencies to enhance their engagement in decisionmaking, and training local communities in sustainable development and conservation.

Amount $100,000
Grant Term 06/09 - 05/10
Grantee Fundación Amigos del Río San Juan
Project Documents - Final report, Español (PDF – 2 MB)
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Consolidation of the Conservation Actions and Management of Biodiversity in Cerro Silva and Punta Gorda Reserves
Consolidate the conservation results achieved by earlier CEPF grants in protected areas of Southeast Nicaragua, with a focus on Cerro Silva and Punta Gorda. Activities focus on promoting agreement between stakeholders (particularly between mestizo and Rama-Kriol indigenous communities) on environmental, development and land tenure policies. The project will also consolidates initiatives for the conservation and sustainable use of the Southeast reserves system and promote financial sustainability of these initiatives.

Amount $300,000
Grant Term 06/09 - 06/12
Grantee Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense
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Consolidating Civil Society Participation in the Conservation of the La Amistad Biosphere Reserve
Consolidate the conservation results made possible by previous CEPF grants in La Amistad Biosphere Reserve by promoting mechanisms for institutional, financial and social sustainability. Activities include establishing mechanisms for stakeholder collaboration in the management of La Amistad; mitigating the impacts from infrastructure and development projects; promoting financial sustainability through the establishment of a trust fund and development of economic projects; and further strengthening institutional capacity.

Amount $595,000
Grant Term 04/09 - 03/12
Grantee Fundación Para el Desarrollo Integral, Comunitario y Conservación de los Ecosistemas en Panamá
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Consolidating the Financial, Institutional and Social Sustainability of the La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, With a Focus on the Indigenous Territories of the Caribbean
Consolidate the results achieved by previous CEPF grants in La Amistad Biosphere Reserve by promoting mechanisms for institutional, financial and social sustainability. In particular, activities will target the Caribbean sector of the biosphere reserve and seek to establish mechanisms for stakeholder collaboration in the management of La Amistad; mitigate the impacts arising from infrastructure and development projects; promote financial sustainability; and strengthen institutional capacity of local organizations.

Amount $30,000
Grant Term 04/09 - 04/12
Grantee Asociación de Profesionales y Técnicos Ngöbe Bugle
Project Documents - No final report is available for this project.

Consolidating Local Conservation Capacity in the Biosphere Reserves of Southeast Nicaragua and La Amistad in Panama
Sustain and expand upon the conservation gains achieved by the first phase of CEPF funding by working closely with local partners to build sufficient local organizational and technical capacity within key environmental organizations and partner alliances to allow for their self-sufficiency beyond CEPF funding, ensure greater financial sustainability of efforts started by CEPF and its partners, and promote greater collaboration and participatory decisionmaking on key development and conservation issues.

Amount $319,382
Grant Term 10/08 - 12/11
Grantee Conservation International

 
 
 
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- Final reports: Project leaders detail results and lessons learned