Project Title: Qualifying United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization buffer zones as Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures within the Átl’ka7tsem Howe Sound Biosphere Region, British Columbia

ECCC Funding Agreement 2022-2026

Strategic Context specific to this funding:

Our Purpose

Strengthening collaboration in Átl'ka7tsem / Howe Sound biosphere region

Biodiversity Conservation: Needs are understood and defined, and measures are in place to ensure conservation of critical ecological values.

Strategic Priorities 2021 – 2026

To advance towards the 10-year outcomes, the following are the five-year interim outcomes we need to focus on and achieve…

Advance Biodiversity Conservation: Key partnerships work to further education, monitoring, and research, fill knowledge gaps, and increase stewardship and connection to place.

Strengthen HSBRIS: We are a strong, capable, high-capacity organization with diverse and adequate resources to fulfill our purpose.

ECCC Workplan and Alignment with HSBRIS Program:

1.       Building Networks & Consensus

2.       Generating Information & Capacity, and

3.       Increasing Connection to People & Place

Click through the following four Program Areas contained in our ECCC approved workplan. These plans and budgets are evaluated and approved annually. The total amount of funding is intended to be matched or exceeded, demonstrating our ability to create sustained capacity with this funding.

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