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Umzimvubu Catchment Partnership Programme: Building Local Institutions, Innovative Strategies and Financial Sustainability for Restoration and Conservation of the Umzimvubu Catchment

Grantee Name: Conservation International

Hotspot
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
Location
South Africa
Amount
$301,884
Dates
Sep 2012 – Jun 2015
Keywords
Biodiversity mainstreaming, Climate adaptation, Climate mitigation, Conservation planning, Erosion, Land use planning, Livelihoods, Networks, Payment for Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem resilience, Landscape Resilience
Create a formally recognized Water Management Forum; improving knowledge of ecosystem values, restoration techniques, and climate vulnerability; promoting institutional alignment for formalizing and coordinating communal and commercial stewardship efforts outside the protected areas within the Umzimvubu Watershed; and establishing baseline monitoring information on the ecology, and social and economic development of the region.
Strategic Direction : 3 Maintain and restore ecosystem function and integrity in the Highland Grasslands and Pondoland corridors

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