Developing Incentives for Community Participation in Forest Conservation through the Use of Commercial Insects in Kenya

Overall Goal: The national protected area system of forest reserves is strengthened through improved incentives for real collaborative forest management with communities. Objective: To demonstrate in three different forest sites that the biodiversity of Kenya’s forest protected area system can be maintained through collaborative management systems using incentives based on income from commercial insects.

Financial mechanism
GEF
Date of approval
Status
Completed
Countries
Managing organisations
ICIPE - The International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology
Implementing organisations
UNDP
Project ID
2237
GEF project type
Medium size
GEF project phase
GEF - 3
GEF Cofinancing
$2.250.000
GEF project grant
$1.000.000
Executing Agencies
ICIPE - The International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology