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The IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) operates in twenty four countries in the Horn of Africa, eastern Africa, southern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. IUCN ESARO engages directly in biodiversity conservation in the region through its innovative thematic programme, Conservation Areas and Species (CAS). The CAS programme draws on evidence-based and best practice approaches to enhance the conservation and management of biodiversity and ecosystems in Eastern and Southern Africa. CAS operates through a “One Programme” approach working closely with IUCN members and Commissions to engage in a diverse set of biodiversity conservation actions ranging from the implementation of field projects to influencing policy and institutional frameworks at local, national, regional and global levels. The CAS programme is focused on enhancing management effectiveness, governance and equity of protected and conserved areas, strengthening multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder engagement to improve biodiversity conservation at landscape and seascape level, and supporting effective local community engagement in biodiversity conservation. The thematic programme also contributes to building the capacity of IUCN Members and partners, as well as the ESARO Secretariat to tackle new and emerging biodiversity conservation challenges in the region and to implement relevant international conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) , Convention on Illegal Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. The programme also links closely to relevant work and regional priorities of Regional Economic Communities, the African Union and the United Nations Environment Assembly.
Conserving Natural Capital and Enhancing Collaborative Management of Transboundary Resources in East Africa (CONNECT) is a four-year project funded by USAID. The project is designed to contribute to the USAID Kenya and East Africa’s (USAID/KEA’s) Regional Development Cooperation Strategy (RDCS) and the USAID/KEA’s regional environmental program. Specifically, it will contribute towards the achievement of Intermediate Results 1.1. “Conservation and management of natural capital improved” identified in the RDCS Framework and the following three Sub-purposes and associated Outcomes:
Sub-Purpose 1: Collaborative Management and Conservation of Transboundary Natural Resource Management Enhanced
• Outcome 1: Strengthened regional policy dialogue, learning and decision-making on management of transboundary natural resources
• Outcome 2: Improved sustainable management of key transboundary landscapes
Sub-Purpose 2: Perceived value of living wildlife increased
• Outcome 3: Increased awareness of the economic and intrinsic value of living wildlife
Sub-Purpose 3: Wildlife poaching and trafficking reduced
• Outcome 4: Reduced demand for wildlife products
• Outcome 5: Improved regional and bilateral collaboration on enforcement and prosecution
This project aims to contribute to the above Sub-Purposes and associated Outcomes by capitalising and building on existing conservation initiatives, information, methodologies, best practices, resources and approaches to combating illegal wildlife trade, as well as injecting new and innovative thinking to strengthen wildlife conservation action and policy at regional level for the benefit of the Partner States of the East African Community (EAC).
The project has three main implementing partners: IUCN, WWF and TRAFFIC. It will have a specific focus on supporting the implementation of the EAC’s Strategy to Combat Poaching, Illegal Trade and Trafficking of Wildlife and Wildlife Products. The project will also support the development of the capacities, leadership and political in the EAC to address a wider range of transboundary natural resources management priorities working closely with the EAC Secretariat, Partner States, relevant EAC structures and other key stakeholders and technical partners.
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