NaturAfrica -Connecting Livelihoods and Landscape (CoLiLa) - Improving community resilience and biodiversity conservation across the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area

About this project

Contract related to: NaturAfrica -Connecting Livelihoods and Landscape (CoLiLa) - Improving community resilience and biodiversity conservation across the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area - The overall objective of the NaturAfrica initiative is to tackle biodiversity loss through restoring and protecting a network of protected areas and high value ecosystems and promoting the sustainable management of surrounding landscapes whilst creating decent incomes and jobs in green sectors for local populations. Through the financing of the conservation and restoration of natural habitats and ecosystems, and the sustainable management and development of key landscapes, the EU aims also to enhance ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, soil fertility, water cycle regulation, disaster risk reduction, etc. as well as benefits for the local populations.The NaturAfrica initiative intends to work in Key Landscapes for Conservation and Development (KLCD) for (i) increasing the conservation of areas with high biodiversity value and high carbon content, and developing green economy activities by and for the neighbouring local communities and (ii) improving the inclusive governance of these landscapes to improve territorial planning, reduce conflicts and mobilise carbon finance. The transboundary nature of biological resources, their ecosystems and habitats species and communities calls for interventions at regional level through transboundary landscapes. Key transbound…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 2Zero Hunger
• 5Gender Equality
• 6Clean Water and Sanitation
• 15Life on Land

Published by

European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships · Other public sector

Sectors

Rural developmentBiodiversity

Focus

Environment · Main focusBiodiversity · Main focusClimate adaptation · Main focusDesertification · Also contributesDisaster risk reduction · Also contributesGender equality · Also contributes

Places

1027 - CIIP-SDTF_10, 1027 - ACP EU Development Minerals Programme

Funded by

European Commission

Implemented by

ZOOLOGISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FRANKFURT VON 1858 EV

Accountable

MULTILATERAL ORGANISATIONS

Passes funds through

Directorate-General for International Partnerships

Published by European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 29 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XI-IATI-EC_INTPA-2025-PC-37215.

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