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Story 19 Oct, 2020

Strengthening trans-frontier conservation in Southern Africa 鈥 SADC & 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 sign Implementation Agreement for the TFCAs Financing Facility

The Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Areas (SADC-TFCAs) Financing Facility implementation agreement has been signed by 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 ESARO and SADC Secretariat, marking an important milestone in the history of the newly established SADC TFCA Financing Facility project.

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Photo: Great Limpopo TFCA

By Kudakwashe Chigodo

The Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Areas (SADC-TFCAs) Financing Facility implementation agreement has been signed by 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 ESARO and SADC Secretariat. The agreement which was signed in August 2020 marks an important milestone in the history of the newly established SADC TFCA Financing Facility project

The signing of the implementation agreement was effected by Dr.聽Stergomena Lawrence Tax the Executive Secretary of SADC Secretariat and Luther Anukur, the Regional Director for 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 ESARO.

The goal of the SADC TFCA FF programme is to use the facility as a new regional financing mechanism to contribute to the sustainable protection of biodiversity and promote trans-frontier conservation areas in the SADC region.

Through the TFCA Financing Facility, investments in tangible measures strengthening ecological, economic, cultural and institutional connectivity within SADC TFCAs will be leveraged in a flexible, demand-and performance driven way. The measures shall integrate three dimensions:

  • Improved habitat connectivity, especially for elephants and large carnivores as flagship species (鈥渟pecies鈥 dimension),
  • Improved management effectiveness and governance of TFCAs and Protected Areas PAs (鈥渉abitat鈥 dimension) and
  • Improved livelihoods for communities affected by human-wildlife co-habitation (鈥減eople鈥 dimension)

Virtual inaugural meeting of the Project Steering Committee

The signing of the implementation agreement was followed by a virtual inaugural meeting of the Project Steering Committee (PSC) held in September 2020. The meeting which brought together SADC Secretariat, SADC Member States (Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe), 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 ESARO team and KfW. provided the PSC with an orientation to the TFCA FF project and an understanding of their Terms of Reference.聽

Speaking at the virtual inaugural meeting, Mr. Domingos Gove, the Director Food Agriculture and Natural Resources, SADC Secretariat said: 鈥淗igh level political commitment is essential for sustainable conservation of biological resources that require transboundary collaboration.鈥澛

鈥淭he TFCA Financing Facility is key in securing sustainable long-term financing to improve the resilience of critical ecosystems encompassed by the SADC TFCAs, especially in times of crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic which has greatly constrained the flow of resources to protected and conserved areas,鈥 said Luther Anukur, Regional Director, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 ESARO.

The virtual inaugural meeting has set the stage for future high level PSC meetings where key decisions for the TFCA Financing Facility will be made. Further, Nils Meyer, KfW Project Manager reiterated that the Financing Facility is expected to create a mechanism that is performance based and effective in achieving results with a focus on impacts at the project level.