Project profile — Amazon Business Alliance

• Peru (100.00%)

• Agriculture: Agricultural development (31120) (20.00%)
• Forestry: Forestry development (31220) (15.00%)
• Biosphere protection:
Biosphere protection (41020) (30.00%)
Bio-diversity (41030) (15.00%)
• Other Multisector: Rural development (43042) (20.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (significant objective)
• Climate change mitigation (principal objective)
• Climate Change Adaptation (significant objective)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project focuses on mitigating climate change and conserving biodiversity in the Peruvian Amazon. The objective is to limit deforestation and forest degradation by restoring degraded ecosystems, while creating and strengthening bio-enterprises in the region that generate income for vulnerable populations, particularly women and indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Project activities include: 1) creating a public-private financing platform for bio-enterprises; 2) providing technical assistance to producers in commercial and financial management, as well as in the sustainable management of natural resources and land; 3) developing national and regional laws, policies, regulations and programs favorable to bio-enterprises.

The expected results of this project include: 1) increased sustainable management of natural ecosystems and biodiversity in the Amazon by sustainable and gender-sensitive communities and bio-enterprises that address climate change; 2) an improvement in the gender-sensitive enabling environment and climate governance for the growth and emergence of bio-enterprises that improve the conservation and use of biodiversity.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) enabled more than 18 bio-enterprise projects (entrepreneurs or farmers) to benefit from financial services and entrepreneurial development services to achieve sustainable management of natural resources; (2) allowed 18 bio-enterprise projects to generate more than US$13 million in co-investment for environmental purposes from the public and private sectors; (3) 67,903 hectares of biologically important areas have been subject to improved natural resource management and restoration of forest cover; (4) facilitated the proposal, adoption and implementation of laws, policies, regulations or standards dealing with the conservation of biodiversity and other environmental themes officially proposed, adopted or implemented as a result of project assistance and promoted gender equality and interculturality; and (5) more than 4,332 people, including 1,361 women, gained benefits (monetary or non-monetary) associated with the implementation of sustainable activities for climate change adaptation.

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