Project objective: To support the expansion of a globally significant, representative and effective Marine and Coastal Protected Area (MCPA) system in Brazil, and to identify mechanisms for its financial sustainability.
Marine Protected Areas
LME,Sea
Budget
117,856,000.00 USD
Total Cost of the project
18,200,000 USD
GEF Allocation to project
Partners
The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (Portuguese: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, ICMBio) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm.[1] It is named after the environmental activist Chico Mendes.
Funbio - Brazilian Fund for Biodiversity is a non-profit civil association, with the title of OSCIP, which started its operation in 1996. Its origin was derived from one of the international agreements resulting from Rio 92, the Convention on Biological Diversity, with the objective of providing an agile financial mechanism for the conservation of Biodiversity [2]. The Fund acts as a strategic partner for the private sector and for state and federal public agencies, enabling socio-environmental investments by companies and reducing and mitigating the impacts caused by them on the environment. In the public sphere, Funbio assists in the consolidation of conservation policies and the viability of environmental financing programs.
Contacts
Senior Environmental Specialist/Task Team Leader