South Pacific Biodiversity Conservation Programme (SPBCP) Terminal Evaluation Mission Final Report

Abstract

The South Pacific Biodiversity Conservation Programme (SPBCP) was a multi-country conservation initiative undertaken from 1992 to 2001, with grant funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), managed by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The SPBCP was designed to "develop strategies for the conservation of biodiversity by means of the sustainable use of biological resources by the people of the South Pacific." It was to work through country Lead Agencies to trial approaches to local community-based conservation.