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Support the implementation of an integrated landscape Project level
management approach to natural resource management in
transboundary settings to reduce land-use conflicts, On a project level, the implementation of the CIWA
empower women and men in communities, address climate Biodiversity Framework should include the following
change, improve water and food security, and achieve approaches:
development objectives at the landscape level. This could
include (i) investing in natural capital and nature-based Support to implement the CIWA Biodiversity
solutions as a cost-effective approach to ecosystems Framework’s ToC and its vision, key focus areas, and
management, disaster risk reduction, and climate change results areas.
mitigation; (ii) implementing a natural resource management
approach in riparian restoration to build ecosystems and Development and implementation of a set of biodiversity
socio-economic resilience; (iii) developing and implementing indicators as part of the CIWA Monitoring and Evaluation
partnerships to support more diverse and resilient system that is designed that is designed to improve
biodiversity economies in rural landscapes adjoining programmatic performance and strengthen learning.
protected areas, providing for a range of nature-based
financing and income-generating opportunities; (iv) water Integration of biodiversity considerations into project
towers as areas important for the production of relatively design, planning, and implementation. This should not
large volumes of runoff to sustain local and regional only be aimed at protecting and conserving
economies; (v) transboundary natural resource management environmental safeguards, but also procedures to
through support for the establishment and implementation of enhance biodiversity as part of development projects,
new or existing transfrontier conservation areas; and (vi) key working at an appropriate scale to address all
biodiversity areas and other geographical considerations such cumulative effects of development and to achieve
as protected area expansion and restoration potential. biodiversity-positive outcomes.

Programmatic level
Direct benefits
1. to ecosystems,
Action framework Project level institutions, and
people.
to embed Project
level biodiversity
conservation
considerations and Integrating Tools & solutions
targets in new CIWA biodiversity
pipeline by considerations into Influencing
supporting project design, Nature-based 2. investments in
operations in a planning and solutions biodiversity
landscape level implementation Integrated water
approach - resource
geographical management
targeting based on Integrated
biodiversity landscape
hotspots, natural management Scale up actions
capital, water Wholescape 3.
towers, and approach through World Bank
transfrontier lending operations
conservation
Figure 3: Implementation Approach—CIWA Biodiversity Framework
Tools and solutions Application

As described above, the Global Biodiversity Framework ToC The CIWA Biodiversity Framework will be applied primarily to
outlines how a wide range of tools and solutions must be new programs, projects, and initiatives as a means to embed
developed, implemented, and scaled to reduce the multiple biodiversity conservation considerations in a more structured
threats to biodiversity while ensuring that people’s needs are way into the design and implementation of activities and
met through the sustainable use of biodiversity. These actions initiatives.
are supported by enabling conditions, adequate means of
implementation—including financial resources, capacity, and
technology—and are underpinned by the principles of
responsibility and transparency. Some of these tools and
solutions are outlined in Annex A.
Framework for Action

The implementation of the Framework will be guided by the
development of a Framework for Action. Key focus areas are
proposed for each of the thematic areas, which in turn could
be transformed into activities, sub-activities, timeframes for
implementation, and roles and responsibilities.

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