USAID Biodiversity Conservation Attribution Requirements

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USAID Biodiversity Conservation Attribution
Requirements

• SANREM Technical Committee Meeting
• Blacksburg, Virginia
• April 18 - 20, 2006

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Evolution of the Biodiversity Earmark

• Congressional requirement
• Upward trend in overall earmark (160 million in
  FY 06)
• Increasing scrutiny of activities
• SANREM represents the majority of the Office of
  Agricultures biodiversity requirement target
  730,000 / year

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USAID Biodiversity Attribution Requirements

• Activities must
• Have an explicit biodiversity objective
• Address an identified threat to biodiversity
• Impact a biologically significant area
• Monitor biodiversity impact

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Explicit biodiversity objective

• Can be primary or secondary objective
• It is not sufficient to have a positive
  biodiversity impact as positive externality of an
  activity

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Impact biologically significant area

• Usually focuses on activities proximate to
  biologically explicit areas
• However non-site based activities are possible
• Draw on assessments from Partners biologically
  significant areas

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Monitoring Biodiversity

• Reveals connections between activity and threat
• Activities can tie into ongoing monitoring of
  partner groups

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Address biodiversity threats

• Threat must be explicit
• Common agricultural threats
• expansion of agricultural frontier into protected
  areas
• fragmentation of natural habitat
• Contamination of aquatic ecosystems by
  agricultural wastes, processing,

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Resources

• USAID Biodiversity Code http//www.usaid.gov/our_w
  ork/environment/biodiversity/code.html
• Biodiversity and Tropical Forestry assessments
  (118-119 report required by Congress of all USAID
  Missions) http//dec.usaid.gov/
• Biodiversity Threats assessments and baselines
  conducted by Partners
• USAID Biodiversity Guide http//pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_
  docs/PNADE258.pdf

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Thank You!

• For more information visit the USAID Website
  www.usaid.gov
• USAID Washington Contact
• Chris Kosnik
• ckosnik_at_usaid.gov , [phone]