Ilhas de Sotavento

Ilhas de Barlavento

São Domingos

Brava

São Filipe

Boa Vista

Santa Catarina

São Miguel

Santa Catarina do Fogo

São Lourenço dos Órgãos

Santa Cruz

São Salvador do Mundo

Maio

São Vicente

Mosteiros

Tarrafal

Paul

Tarrafal de São Nicolau

Porto Novo

Praia

Ribeira Brava

Ribeira Grande

Ribeira Grande de Santiago

Cabo Verde

Local CSOs and CBOs in landscapes-seascapes around the world access grant financing and technical assistance, including capacity development and knowledge sharing to maintain and enhance their socio-ecological resilience, well-being and socio-economic conditions for global environmental benefits.

Enhance Cabo Verde’s agri-food systems’ adaptive capacity through strategic investments in the enabling environment, nature-based solutions and innovations, and in knowledge and learning.

SGP-OP8 builds on 30 years of successful experience in empowering local CSOs and CBOs in community driven initiatives that have enhanced wellbeing, increased awareness and resilience, and generated global environmental benefits. With economic development pressures intensifying in the developing world and the associated rising inequalities, local communities, particularly vulnerable and disadvantaged groups are becoming increasingly marginalized. The objective of Part 1 of SGP OP8 is to engage local CSOs/CBOs in landscape-seascape approaches across the 99 participating countries, providing them access to knowledge and information, capacitating them through learning-by-doing, skills development, and delivering technical and grant assistance for interventions that enhance socioeconomic conditions and generate global environmental benefits. In line with the GEF-8 SGP Implementation Arrangements Paper, core SGP resources are to be allocated equally among all eligible countries.

The proposed strategy, elaborated through four complementary outcomes, reflects the key features of GEF Small Grants Programme 2.0, including new approaches to support youth, women and Indigenous Peoples, linking up with complementary partnerships, cooperating with the two additional GEF agencies, and leveraging opportunities with other GEF programs. SGP-OP8 will facilitate opportunities for innovation and scaling up, catalyze multi-stakeholder alliances, and leverage dialogue platforms for greater impact.

An important comparative advantage of SGP is the focus on social inclusion and vulnerable groups, including women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, the elderly and youth. Expected results under OP8-Part 1 include 225,000 ha of land and ecosystems under restoration, 3,800,000 ha of landscapes under improved practices, 90,000 ha of marine protected areas under improved management, 270,000 ha of marine habitat under improved practices, and 500,000 direct beneficiaries, of whom 250,000 are women.

The programme will promote climate-resilient system that combines the absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities of social-ecological systems of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and STP. The programme will support agrarian systems to recover from climatic shocks and stresses, while positively withstanding against the effects of climate change. The following three mutually reinforcing components (i) implementation of climate-resilient agricultural practices; (ii) capacity building to sustain project interventions; (iii) monitoringevaluation and learning. Throughout the planning and implementation of each activity within the components, there will be regular sharing of information and experiences with the different stakeholders that are involved in climate resilience in agriculture in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and STP. This will ensure that lessons are learned as the programme progresses and that each country builds on the experiences and knowledge of each other. Concrete adaptation measures include the adoption of integrated, climate resilient farming, production, water access and use, landscape rehabilitation, post-harvest and marketing systems. New technologies on water through desalinization, will be introduced, as well as best practices aimed at promoting the paradigm shift and behavioral change in the crop, and fishery value chains and increasing linkages to markets.

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Cabo Verde

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