Building a Comprehensive National Protected Areas System: A Financial and Operational Framework

The key focus of the proposed GEF Alternative will be setting up the framework for the new System that would increase the effectiveness of on the ground action. It will thus provide an umbrella function to all Protected Area work in Chile - including those funded through GEF – through a Programme Approach to BD-1 in Chile further described in section E. In this sense, the proposed Project will work very closely with other planned and ongoing national and GEF biodiversity projects by levering increased impacts from project-specific, on the ground pilot actions and innovative approaches to strategically selected issues. It will do this by providing a systemic framework at the national, regional and local, which will increase synergies and efficiencies between PAs and ensure replication of best practices elsewhere in other protected areas in Chile through setting up harmonized and comprehensive regulatory, institutional, operational and funding procedures and strategies within a unified and sustainable framework for PA management.