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
Appendix B Project Cash Flow and ECCC funding (Revisions TBC April 2025)
Appendix E Work Plan for GCXE23C023 Biosphere Reserve CA 2022-2026 (Revisions TBC April 2025, reflected in workplan below)
Reported to ECCC
Year 1: Annual Project Report
Year 2: Annual Project Report
Year 3: Annual Project Cash Flow update
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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