PROJECT BRIEF
1. IDENTIFIERS:
PROJECT NUMBER:
PROJECT TITLE:
DURATION:
IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY:
EXECUTING AGENCIES:
To be assigned later
Regional (Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan):
In situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives Through
Enhanced Information Management and Field Application
5 years
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Armenia: Ministry of Nature Protection; Ministry of Agriculture;
Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bolivia: General Directorate on Biodiversity, Vice Ministry of
Environment, Natural Resources and Forest Development.
Madagascar: Ministry of Scientific Research, National Centre for
Agricultural Research for Rural Development.
Sri Lanka: Ministry of Environment; Ministry of Agriculture,
Plant Genetic Resources Centre.
Uzbekistan: State Committee of Republic of Uzbekistan on
Science and Technology, Institute of Genetics and Plant
Experimental Biology.
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute:
Headquarters, Via dei Tre Denari, 472/a, 00057 Maccarese
(Fiumicino), Rome, Italy
Regional Offices:
Europe
c/o IPGRI’s Headquarters
Americas
Apartado Aéreo 6713
Cali, Colombia
Sub-Saharan Africa
PO Box 30677
Nairobi, Kenya
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Asia, Pacific and Oceania
P.O. Box 236
Serdang, 43400 Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
Central Asia Office, Central and West Asia and North Africa
P.O. Box 4564
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
REQUESTING
COUNTRIES:
ELIGIBILITY:
GEF FOCAL AREA:
GEF PROGRAMMING
FRAMEWORK:
Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan
The requesting countries have all ratified the Convention on
Biological Diversity: Armenia on 14.05.93; Bolivia on 03.10.94;
Madagascar on 04.03.96; Sri Lanka on 23.03.94; Uzbekistan on
19.07.95
Biodiversity
OP # 13 (Agrobiodiversity) with OP # 4 (Mountain ecosystems)
2. SUMMARY
The outcomes of this project are the safe and effective conservation of crop wild relatives and
their increased availability for crop improvement in Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka
and Uzbekistan, together with an international information system that can support crop wild
relatives’ conservation throughout the world. Within each partner country, information
management systems will be created that bring together information on crop wild relatives held
by different institutions. The conservation status of crop wild relatives in the participating
countries will be determined. Decision-making procedures that allow countries to identify
priority conservation actions will be developed and tested and those of the highest priority will
be carried out. Benefit sharing issues relevant to crop wild relatives’ conservation will be
investigated, and programmes undertaken to increase the involvement of country decision
makers and the public in conservation of crop wild relatives. Internationally, an information
management system will be created and tested by the partner countries and international
partners that allows dispersed information, held by individual countries, international agencies
and other institutions, to be brought together and used to support conservation decision-making
at global level.
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3. COSTS AND FINANCING (US$):
GEF:
-Project
-PDF
: 5,827,025
: 335,000
: 6,162,025
Subtotal GEF
Co-financing:
-Project
: 6,380,969
-IPGRI
-BGCI
-USDA
-WCMC
: 1,305,000 in-kind
: 184,610 in-kind
20,690 cash
: 280,000 in-kind
: 121,000 in-kind
263,000 cash
: 113,650 in-kind
: 250,000 in-kind
-
: 1,000,000 cash1
-FAO
-IUCN
-Governments (in-kind)
Armenia
: 206,200
Bolivia
: 1,038,860
Madagascar : 491,992
Sri Lanka
: 282,625
Uzbekistan
: 196,990
-Governments (cash)
Armenia
:
0
Bolivia
:
0
Madagascar :
228,122
Sri Lanka
:
69,359
Uzbekistan
:
124,871
-PDF
-Governments
-IPGRI
-FAO
-DIVERSITAS
-IUCN
-WCMC
- BGCI
Subtotal Co-financing
Total Project Cost
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:
340,000
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
60,000
110,000
90,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
: 6,720,969
:12,578,994
Discussions ongoing with donor. To be finalized before submission of Project for Endorsement.
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4. ASSOCIATED FINANCING (US$):
5. OPERATIONAL FOCAL POINT ENDORSEMENT:
Vartan Ayvazyan
Minister of Nature Protection
Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
27 February 2002
Lic. Hernán Cabrera Francidakiz
Viceministro de Medio Ambiente,
Recursos Naturales y Desarrollo Forestal
Ministero de Desarrollo Sostenible y Planificacion
La Paz, Bolivia
18 February 2002
Roger Edmond
General Secretary
Ministry of Environment
Antananarivo, Madagascar
12 February 2002
A.H.N. Jayasekara
Acting Secretary
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources,
Sri Lanka
13 February 2002
Sergey V. Myagkov
Deputy Director,
Hydro-meteorological Institute (SANIGMI)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
22 February 2002
6. IA CONTACT:
Ahmed Djoghlaf, Director
UNEP Division of Global Environment Facility Coordination
PO Box 30552
Nairobi, Kenya
Telephone: 254 2 623257
Fax: 254 2 624041
e-mail: Ahmed.djoghlaf@unep.org
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