CEPF | 2019
Reward Program for Conscious Producers - Restoring Ecosystem Services in the Cerrado
About the Project
Financier
Year
Notice
Support Value
Duration
Objective
CEPF - Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
2019
Funding in support of this Agreement is made available from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (“CEPF”), a joint initiative of Conservation International (“CI”), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (“IBRD”), the Global Environment Facility through IBRD as implementing agency and through CI as implementing agency (“GEF”), the Government of Japan through IBRD as administrator of funds provided by the Ministry of Finance (“Japan”), the French Development Agency (l'Agence Française de Développement, “AFD”) and the European Union (“EU”).
US$ 400 thousand
26 months (May 2019 to June 2021)
The central objective of the PIPC is to establish and implement a strategy to restore the provision of ecosystem services in the basin in the long term through a process of effective engagement with producers and local stakeholders.
Partner Institutions
DATERRA Donation of 30 thousand seedlings
IMAFLORA - Investment of 25 thousand reais in the construction of indicators.
SEBRAE - Investment of R$ 36,440.00 in the diagnosis of expansion basins.
Serra do Salitre City Hall - Hiring field workers to restore the areas.
Serra do Coromandel City Hall - Hiring field workers to restore the areas.
IEB - Support in coordination with partners and potential financiers.
Cerrado region of Minas Gerais - Engagement of stakeholders, communication about the CCA
Cerrado Seed Networks - Partnership in course development. Cerrado Seed Course. Training for collectors and restorers.
EMATER - Property diagnosis and evaluation of PIPs (Individual Property Plans).
LAPIG/UFG - Impact analysis of basins of action.
Federal University of Viçosa (Rio Paranaíba Campus) - Partnership in the construction and execution of the workshop to update strategies for smart agriculture.
Beneficiaries
Directly:
73 properties
57 producers
495 men and 434 women participated in the course "Seeds of the Cerrado - Training of Seed Collectors and Restorers of the Cerrado" and 43 producers and 2 women received training and guidance on climate-smart agriculture strategies.
10 field workers
5 office employees
Indirectly:
100 thousand residents of Patrocínio and Serra do Salitre
