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PARCC West Africa Protected Areas Resilient to Climate Change in West Africa Project Overview

PARCC West Africa Protected Areas Resilient to Climate Change in West Africa Project Overview. Protected Areas. PAs: major tool in conserving species and ecosystems West Africa region: 6.3% of land area protected Rich biological heritage (diversity, endemism) Ecosystem services

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PARCC West Africa Protected Areas Resilient to Climate Change in West Africa Project Overview

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  1. PARCC West AfricaProtected Areas Resilient to Climate Change in West AfricaProject Overview United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre

  2. Protected Areas • PAs: major tool in conserving species and ecosystems • West Africa region: 6.3% of land area protected • Rich biological heritage (diversity, endemism) • Ecosystem services • In some countries: data are in need of verification 2

  3. Climate Change • Expected impacts: • Modification of precipitation • Change in temperature • Sea level rise • In turn, this will affect: • Species and habitat distribution • Ecosystem composition • Human population distributions • As a consequence, PAs and their ecosystem services are under threat 3

  4. Climate-shifted distribution Climate change impacts on biodiversity Latitude Migration/ Invasion Country Y Country X Protected Area Local extinction Original distribution Depth Adapted from Cheung, 2009

  5. The PARCC project • The aim: • “Build capacity in the region to better integrate the likely effect of climate change on protected areas, and develop new management approaches” • Characteristics: a regional approach; 5 countries; 5 years (2011-2015); $15.6m ($3.5m GEF and $12.1m of co-financing) Expected outcomes: • Tools for assessing vulnerability of Protected Areas to climate change • (2) Strategies to strengthen resilience of PAs to CC impacts • (3) Capacity building for using these tools and strategies 5

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  7. Project Components and Timeline C 1 Vulnerability assessments and risk reduction strategies C 2 Ecological gap analysis C 3 Policy support and implementation, pilot projects and training C4 Knowledge management, communication and M&E 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 7

  8. C1 Vulnerability assessments and risk reduction strategies • Data review (Done) • National data collection (Now!) • Climate change modeling • Vulnerability assessments of species, PAs, and also socio-economic vulnerability 8

  9. C2 Ecological gap analysis and spatial planning • Effect of CC on communities and PAs • PA coverage and connectivity for regionally important areas • Update the status of globally threatened species • Map legal and policy frameworks • Review resource management practices 9

  10. C3 Policy support, Pilot projects and training • Training: regional and national workshops • Pilot corridor management plans • Support for policy implementation • Long term monitoring system as part of PA management 10

  11. C4 Knowledge management, communication and M&E • Development of a communication strategy for an efficient project implementation (Done) • Knowledge management: website and data portal • Regional framework for long term monitoring of the effects of CC on Pas • CC impact monitoring tool for individual PAs 11

  12. Rapid analysis of vulnerability assessment tools • and proposed framework • Vulnerability of PA network to climate change in the West Africa region • A variety of approaches: descriptive methods, scenarios, qualitative / quantitative / spatial assessments, syndrome analyses, indicators or indices, narrative models or based on simulations / scenarios, cross-disciplinary approaches • Proposed framework : • Integrate information thanks to indicators • Visualize the data through spatial mapping • Include socio-economic factors • A participatory approach with the contribution of national experts 12

  13. Organisational Chart • CHAD • NLO National Liaison Officer • GAMBIA • NLO • National Liaison Officer • MALI • NLO • National Liaison Officer • l • S. LEONE • NLO • National Liaison Officer • TOGO • NLO • National Liaison Officer IUCN PAPACO RMU Regional Management Unit Technical Advisory Group (TAG) PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEE (PSC) UNEP WCMC PMU Project Management Unit UNEP DEPI / GEF 13

  14. Technical Advisory Group UNEP DEPI / GEF Project Management Unit (PMU) TAG Chair Scientific Advisors Regional Management Unit (RMU) • Vulnerability Assessmemt • IUCN SP • Birdlife & Durham University • National consultant • Climate Change Modelling • Hadley Centre • National consultant • Systematic Conservation Planning • DICE • National consultant • Transboundary Protected Areas • ONGs • National consultant 14

  15. Objectives of the national inception meeting • Data Collection: • Protected Areas • Climate • Species • Other GIS data • Identification of missing data • Design of a national action plan for data collection 15

  16. A World Where Biodiversity Counts www.unep-wcmc.org 16

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