Goal: Concrete and coherent global action for ecological connectivity is mobilized and scaled up.
A key objective of the partnership is to promote the effective implementation of connectivity conservation on the ground. This involves promoting and implementing specific projects, initiatives and activities that translate the partnership’s strategies and objectives into tangible actions.
To this end, the partnership will facilitate the operation and development of a wide range of projects aimed at identifying, assessing, prioritizing, planning, and measuring connectivity, including the active design, governance, and management of ecological corridors and networks with considerations emphasized in integrated biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning. It will support the establishment of well-connected protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMS) for structural and functional connectivity. To scale up these efforts, the partnership will generate case studies and models of existing and emerging initiatives, facilitate project funding, and support and streamline access to financial resources for the realization of impactful projects. The partnership will engage with key decision-makers and actors to advance capacity and implementation. This includes national and subnational governments, the private sector, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and nongovernmental organizations.
Collective Priorities
- Promote and provide support for the national application of existing connectivity guidelines, in particular IUCN ‘Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors’, and identify and promote successful case studies in their application
- Identify GPEC priority intervention areas for joint fundraising efforts
- Promote the adoption and implementation of key actions on connectivity with the corporate sector
- Identify and promote ‘flagship’ connectivity projects in priority land/seascapes and collectively as a partnership accelerate investment and effectiveness of implementation
- Develop best practice tool kit for connectivity
- Promote and support on-the-ground actions to enhance ecological connectivity across all regions and ecosystems