Landscape Conservation Project

Name: Landscape Conservation Project
Duration: October 2005 - August 2009
Donor: Conservation International

Conservation programs in Bolivia must achieve biodiversity diversity aims, but many conservation programs lack the seeds within them to change behaviours and strengthen systems that will eventually support biodiversity conservation gains. Under the Landscape Conservation Program Pact and its partners seek to promote biodiversity conservation in the Apolobamba-Madidi-Pilón Lajas and Amboró-Carrasco landscapes through strengthening sustainable natural resource practices and promoting participation in conservation of key actors, such as municipal governments and indigenous federations. In addition to achieving key biodiversity conservation results, the project aims to create a sustainable conservation legacy through sound public polices, governance, and education strategies and activities. The project employs nontraditional approaches to leave a more strategic, sustainable legacy. Four strategies are key:

• To consolidate environmentally sustainable economic initiatives and strengthen the capacities of local conservation actors to articulate, promote and benefit from biodiversity conservation activities.
• To facilitate the development of public policies to promote sustainability in ecotourism, bio-commerce, environmental services, management of protected areas, and sustainable, development-based territorial planning. This includes strengthening the role of key governmental actors to promote appropriate biodiversity conservation public policies.
• To incorporate the importance of biodiversity conservation in the national and regional education systems, including grounding these themes at the municipal level through the Educational Nucleus Projects (PEN). This includes testing and developing nonformal environmental education instruments and activities.
• To facilitate the concerted use of learning and sharing mechanisms to promote linkages between conservation actors working within the two landscapes and nationally. This strategy includes helping to identify key trends affecting conservation in the region and harvesting and disseminating results to promote scaling up and best practice adoption.

Within this project strategy Pact is primarily responsible for the fourth strategy on learning and sharing, as well as carrying out capacity building activities with three municipal governments and two indigenous peoples federations to increase their capacity for conservation.

Partners

Conservation Internacional Bolivia Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN) Federación de Asociaciones Municipales (FAM) Federation of Municipal Associations and Asociación Boliviana para la Conservación (TRÓPICO)

Staff contacts

	Mary Ngugi Program officer mngugi@pacthq.org