GMS Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative

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Greater Mekong Subregion
Core Environment Program and Biodiversity
Conservation Corridors Initiative ADB TA
6289 Executing Agency ADB Implementing Agency
GMS countries Co-financed by the PRC Fund, the
Governments of Netherlands and Sweden Presented
by Huynh Thi Mai Department of Environment
MONRE Hanoi, 22-23/5/2007
Photo Zhu Hua
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CONTENTS
I. CEP-BCI in GMS 1. Background 2.
Objectives 3. Activities, finance II. BCI in
Vietnam 1. Time and Pilot sites 2. Activities and
results 3. Capital 4. Implementing organization
Photo Zhu Hua
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GMS Economic Corridors and Priority Landscapes
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Declining Resource Base

• Forests Decline in natural forest cover
• 27 billion annual disinvestment
• Fisheries Declining freshwater catch
• Agriculture Increasing soil degradation
• Industry Reduced water quality

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2nd GMS Summit Declaration

• - CEP-BCI was proposed at the GMS-WGE 10 Meeting
  on September 2004 in Hanoi
• CEP-BCI was endorsed at the GMS environment
  Ministers Meeting in Shanghai, China in May 2005
  and the second GMS summit in Kunming, China in
  July 2005
• CEP-BCI was approved on December 2005 by ADB and
  adopted on April 2006 at the GMS-WGE 12

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Core Environment Program (CEP)Vision a
poverty-free and ecologically-rich GMS
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CEP Components

1. Sector strategy environmental assessments
2. Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative
3. Environmental performance assessments (EPAs)
4. Capacity building for environmental management
5. Sustainable financing

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Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative
Component 2

• Aim
• Establish sustainable development and management
  regimes in the GMS biodiversity conservation
  corridors
• Activities
• Initiate at least six biodiversity corridor pilot
  sites within GMS economic corridors
• Link biodiversity conservation to poverty
  reduction

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BCI Components

• Improved livelihoods and reduced poverty
• Harmonized land management regimes
• Ecosystem restoration
• Capacity Building
• Sustainable financing

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• GMS Economic Corridors, Priority Landscapes and
  Biodiversity Corridor Pilot sites
• ECONOMIC CORRIDORS
• 3 North-South ECs
• 2 East-West ECs
• 1 Southern Coastal Corridor
• PRIORITY LANDSCAPES
• There are 9 priority landscapes
• BCI PILOT SITES
• (Phase I 2006 2008)
• There are 6 BCI Pilot sites

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Biodiversity Landscapes

• Nine landscapes of particularly high biodiversity
  value in the GMS
• Western Forest Complex
• Tonle Sap Inundation Zone
• Cardamom Mountains
• Northern Plains Dry Forest
• Eastern Plains Dry Forest
• Tri-Border Forest
• Central Annamites
• Northern Annamites
• Mekong Headwaters
• Six pilot sites within the landscapes selected to
  restore habitat linkages via corridors

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BCI Pilot Sites
Cambodia Thailand Cardamom Mountains
Lao PDR Cambodia Xe Pian-Dong Hua Sao-Dong Ampham
PRC Myanmar Lao PDR Xishuangbanna
Thailand Myanmar Tenasserim Western Forest
Viet Nam Lao PDR Ngoc Linh-Xe Sap
Cambodia Viet Nam Eastern Plains
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Expenditure and finance
- Regional project is managed by ADB and is implemented by five GMS countries. Implementing duration 10 years, phase I 2006-2008 Total estimated cost for CEP 36,11 million dollars Total cost for technique assistance managed by ADB 25,570 million dollars Co-financed by the PRC Fund, the Governments of Netherlands and Sweden and ADB fund program as an aid modality GMS countries 600.000 USD in kind
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Viet Nam
Viet Nam has large shares of three important
biodiversity landscapes All are affected by GMS
economic corridors (East West 1 and 2) One pilot
site selected to relink habitats in Central
Annamites
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BCI Activities in Vietnam

• BCI was approved by the Prime Minister on
  7/9/2006
• Implementing agency
• MONRE and related ministries and agencies
• Quang Nam and Quang Tri provinces
• NGOs WWF, IUCN, Birdlife Inter.
• Pilot sites Quang Nam and Quang Tri provinces
• Duration 2006-2008 for phase I

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BCI Activities in Vietnam

• Main Activities and Results
• 1. National level
• Support to develop the Biodiversity Law
• Procure equipments for the projects office
• Project supporting staffs
• Operation costs
• Field trips
• National Steering Committee meetings
• National consultants

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BCI Activities in Vietnam

• 2. Provincial level
• Support in poverty reduction
• Harmonize land management mechanism
• Restore the ecosystems connection and
• biodiversity conservation
• Strengthen capacity
• Disseminate program, supervise and provide
  sustainable finance

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BCI Activities in Vietnam
Total capital Total sponsor 6,314 millions
USD National activities 914 000 USD (include
about 70.000 for IUCN) Quang Tri and Quang Nam
activities 5,4 tri?u USD (WWF manages)
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BCI Activities in Vietnam

• Implementation organization
• - Establish a project office at DOE/MONRE
• Establish national and provincial
• steering committees
• - Establish provincial project implementing unit
• - Build the organizational and
• activities regulations
• Appoint National Project Coordinator
• Establish working group
• Recruit supporting staffs and consultants

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• Thank You
• www.adb.org/projects/core-environment-program
• www.adb.org/projects/gms-biodiversity
• Project Office for CEP-BCI in Vietnam
• 85 Nguyen Chi Thanh, Hanoi
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax. [phone]
• Email maiht2004_at_yahoo.com