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 1 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. 2 3. COSTS AND FINANCING (US$): GEF: -Project -PDF : 5,827,025 : 335,000 : 6,162,025 Subtotal GEF Co-financing: -Project : 6,380,969 -IPGRI -BGCI -USDA -WCMC : 1,305,000 in-kind : 184,610 in-kind 20,690 cash : 280,000 in-kind : 121,000 in-kind 263,000 cash : 113,650 in-kind : 250,000 in-kind - : 1,000,000 cash1 -FAO -IUCN -Governments (in-kind) Armenia : 206,200 Bolivia : 1,038,860 Madagascar : 491,992 Sri Lanka : 282,625 Uzbekistan : 196,990 -Governments (cash) Armenia : 0 Bolivia : 0 Madagascar : 228,122 Sri Lanka : 69,359 Uzbekistan : 124,871 -PDF -Governments -IPGRI -FAO -DIVERSITAS -IUCN -WCMC - BGCI Subtotal Co-financing Total Project Cost 1 : 340,000 : : : : : : : 60,000 110,000 90,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 : 6,720,969 :12,578,994 Discussions ongoing with donor. To be finalized before submission of Project for Endorsement. 3 4. ASSOCIATED FINANCING (US$): 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 4