Brazil Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Project Phase 2

The objectives of the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Project are to expand the area under legal protection and improve management of Protected Areas, and increase the area under restoration and sustainable management in the Brazilian Amazon. There are four components to the project, the first component being amazon protected areas system. This component aims to expand and consolidate an over-60-million-ha PA system in the Brazilian Amazon and advance ongoing efforts to secure its long-term financial sustainability by capitalizing the ARPA Transition Fund. The ARPA Transition Fund seeks to gradually increase the resources provided by federal and state governments to ARPA, while decreasing donor-based investments, so that, after a period of 25 years, these governments will finance 100 percent of ARPA costs without any support from the Transition Fund itself or any other donor funds. The second component is the integrated landscape management. This component aims to promote integrated landscape management in the Amazon through complementary strategies that foster the recovery of native vegetation, develop sustainable productive systems, strengthen productive value chains, and implement innovative management arrangements between PAs. The third component is the policies for protection and recovery of native vegetation. This component focuses on strengthening the capacity of national and state governments to develop and implement sectoral policies and financial mechanisms to reduce deforestation and promote forest recovery. Finally, the fourth component is the capacity building, cooperation, and project coordination. The project will promote reforestation and forest recovery by strengthening the capacity of national and state governments for sustainable management.