Project profile — Community-based conservation of coastal-marine biodiversity in Honduras

• Honduras (100.00%)

• Environmental policy and administrative management:
Environmental policy and administrative management (41010) (10.00%)
Biosphere protection (41020) (30.00%)
Bio-diversity (41030) (40.00%)
Site preservation (41040) (10.00%)
Environmental education/training (41081) (10.00%)

• Biodiversity (principal objective)
• Indigenous Issues (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)

This project aims to improve biodiversity and key ecosystem health along Honduras’ Atlantic and Pacific coasts using nature-based solutions. It responds directly to Canada’s commitment to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to safeguard and restore biodiversity. The project focuses on people dependent on these ecosystems, particularly women, youth, and Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples, whose livelihoods remain threatened by climate change, habitat loss, and ecosystem degradation. Project activities include: (1) strengthening protected areas governance and management; (2) restoring ecosystems and recovering threatened species through nature-based solutions; (3) improving agroforestry, agriculture, ecotourism and cattle ranching sustainability through model nature-based solutions; (4) strengthening public sector biodiversity policy framework; and (5) enhancing women’s empowerment and Indigenous people’s rights.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved gender-responsive and rights-based protection of natural coastal-marine ecosystems using nature-based solutions with benefits especially for local women and girls, and indigenous peoples; (2) improved gender-responsive and rights-based sustainable use of productive coastal-marine ecosystems implementing nature-based solutions benefiting especially local women and girls, and indigenous peoples; and (3) improved gender-responsive and rights-based restoration of productive coastal-marine ecosystems implementing nature-based solutions benefiting especially local women and girls, and indigenous peoples.

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• Proactive disclosure