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BACKGROUND

There are three recently established Marine Management Area (MMA) Conservation Zones and three existing terrestrial protected areas units in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. Only the Central Forest Reserve National Park was established primarily for ecological conservation, and there are no legally declared terrestrial protected areas on the island of Nevis. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) investment, through the Conserving Biodiversity and reducing habitat degradation in Protected Areas and their areas of influence Project (Conserving Biodiversity Project), will expand the protected areas system from two terrestrial sites totaling 5,260 hectares to four terrestrial sites totaling 8,810 hectares and three marine sites totaling 11,693 hectares, The project will further enable support for improved ecosystem representation in the protected areas system through the establishment of these new conservation / protected areas, strengthening of the institutional, policy and legal/regulatory frameworks development of sustainable finance mechanisms and the establishment and strengthening of protected areas management operations at key sites. However, for effective support for conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems of national, regional and global significance, there needs to be appropriate and sufficient data to inform effective decision-making.

As part of the overall development and operationalization of a system of protected areas, the project aims to enhance both opportunities for gender responsive sustainable livelihoods in and around its network of protected areas as well as community participation and collaboration in effective management of the sites and their resources. This would entail gender responsive community participation for increasing community members’ access to and capacity for livelihood opportunities in keeping with the goals and objectives of the protected areas. As such, the Project will contract a consultant to carry out a gender responsive feasibility assessment for sustainable financing of SKN PA system and develop corresponding gender responsive sustainable finance plans for 3 terrestrial protected areas and 3 Marine Management Area (MMA) Conservation Zones, incorporating existing sustainable finance plans (2017, 2012, to be provided to consultant), including supporting the implementation of a visitor/user fee system, as outlined in the Conserving Biodiversity Project. Furthermore, enhanced gender responsive sustainable livelihoods, including small- and micro-enterprises that support protected area objectives and conservation, will be integrated into overall financial planning for the protected area sites and the 6 site-based financial plans developed through this consultancy. These gender responsive sustainable site-based finance plans will build on outputs of the ongoing gender responsive socio-economic and livelihood assessment, of the communities around the protected areas and that depend on the natural resources for their livelihoods, as appropriate. These sustainable finance plans are intended to further support long-term sustainability of livelihoods, the protected area sites, and the overall management and institutional growth of the system of protected areas for St Kitts and Nevis.