Pact's SCAPES Initiative
In September 2009, Pact in partnership with Fauna & Flora International, BirdLife International and ACDI/VOCA was awarded the Sustainable Conservation Approaches in Priority EcosystemS (SCAPES) Leader with Associates (LWA) award by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Through this program the Pact consortium promotes the conservation of globally important biodiversity at the landscape/seascape level by focusing on current conservation needs and on the long-term sustainability of conservation efforts. Click to learn more about USAID's SCAPES award.
Our Approach
We seek to ensure that critical biodiversity flourishes within landscapes by the enabling of ecological processes and through sustainable management and equitable governance of the landscape which also contributes to sustainable development based on human needs and aspirations. This vision is accomplished through interventions in ecology, governance and economy.
Associate Awards
SCAPES associate awards will focus on Landscapes and Seascapes: an area of land and/or water of sufficient size and shape to provide the ecological connectivity needed to ensure the survival of the range of biodiversity found there. The Pact Consortium has a People Centered Landscape Vision that acknowledges the role that human populations play within varied landscapes. We aim to establish common conservation goals with the stakeholders of the landscapes in which we work and consider the distribution, organization, cohesion and aspirations of humans living there. The desire that landscapes and the biodiversity that thrives there must also persist over time adds a temporal dimension to our conservation targets and dictates that both biological and cultural responses to a changing climate are included in our approach.
As this is a global LWA, USAID Missions and Bureaus are able to develop stand-alone associate awards with the Pact Consortium. These associate awards will need to fit within the overall SCAPES approach which emphasizes Landscape or Seascape level biodiversity conservation activities or policy initiatives.
