Germany – Foreign economic-aid-related services – 81322411-Estudio de evaluación del impacto socio-ambiental y económico de medidas de Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas

Brief information about the project The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is implementing the project "Resilient Puna: Ecosystem-based adaptation for communities and sustainable high Andean landscapes in Peru". The project is financed by the German cooperation (BMZ), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Canadian Cooperation (GAC), in addition to the counterpart of the Peruvian government. The project works with the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI), Profonanpe (Peru's environmental fund), the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (SERNANP) and The Mountain Institute (IdM). The "Resilient Puna" project contributes to restoring, conserving and better managing the ecosystem of the Peruvian puna. To this end, it promotes ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) measures, which serve to make agriculture, livestock and communities more resilient to climate change in the prioritized districts of the departments of Arequipa, Cusco, Puno, Lima (Yauyos) and Apurimac, and its promote their active and equitable participation in agricultural and livestock value chains. It also supports the establishment of a long-term financial mechanism for communities to restore wetlands, grasslands and water reservoirs. Finally, the project aims to align and leverage public and private financing for EbA measures and Climate Resilient Value Chains and incorporate EbA approach in different multilevel public instruments, also considering the mainstreaming of gender, intergenerational and intercultural approaches. The project activities are organized into three components: - Component 1: Puna ecosystems are better restored, conserved, and managed to support climate-resilient livelihoods, through the implementation of EbA measures. - Component 2: Public and private investments aligned and leveraged to scale EbA measures. - Component 3: Multilevel territorial governance for the incorporation of EbA measures. According to the intervention logic proposed by the Resilient Puna project, through component 1, communities will receive funds to implement Local Initiatives that consist in integrating EbA measures into value chains (e.g Andean crops and camelids) to make them more resilient. These communities will conform Community Monitoring Committees that will set up a baseline, and they will collect information the measure the impact of the EbA measures. They will lead and facilitate the community monitoring process to assess socio-economic, ecosystem and ecosystem service impacts.