Human and Biodiversity Resilience in the Mesopotamian Marshes

About this project

The overall objective of the project is to improve the healthy nexus between ecosystems and indigenous people of the Mesopotamian Marshes in the face of climate change, given their close relationship and mutual dependence. The project aims at increasing the climate resilience of the Marshlands communities, protecting biodiversity and ecosystems by encouraging laws and regulations with womens rights at their core, raising awareness, diverting livelihoods from over hunting and illegal fishing, and creating healthy habitat for restoring wildlife biodiversity. The proposed activities aim at contributing to building resilience of local communities to climate change impacts, tackling root causes of biodiversity degradation, and restoring the wildlife population, through and for women empowerment, while bringing co-benefits across poverty reduction, social cohesion, and climate mitigation.

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land

Published by

United Nations Development Programme · Multilateral

Countries

Iraq

Sectors

Environmental policy and administrative managementBiodiversity

Funded by

Dept of Forgn Afrs Trade & Dev, GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

Implemented by

UNDP

Accountable

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Published by United Nations Development Programme to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-41114-PROJECT-01000541.

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