PIMS 9514 Establishment of Eswatini Big-5 Nature Reserve

About this project

This project is a child project under the GEF-8 GWP Wildlife Conservation for Development Integrated Program (WCD IP) and represents one of the 15 national projects competitively selected for the program. WCD IP forms the GEF-8 phase of the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) and will leverage the existing GWP knowledge platform to enhance collaboration and learning across GEF phases. In this document, WCD IP will hereafter be referred to as GEF-8 GWP to reflect this integration.Wildlife conservation is of cultural and economic significance in Eswatini as reflected in the established institutional and policy frameworks. However, human wildlife conflict due to habitat fragmentation, poaching and IWT threatens biodiversity and wildlife. Key barriers to addressing these drivers include inadequate institutional coordination, inadequate HWC management capacity and mitigation measures, limited community engagement and flow of economic benefits from conservation to communities. The project objective is to enhance human-wildlife co-existence and ensure gender inclusive benefits to communities from conserved landscapes for improved livelihoods and climate resilience. The proposed solution is organised around three components: 1. Co-existence of People and Wildlife across Connected Habitats--promote stronger inclusive governance over the landscape through collaborative management frameworks; integrated ecosystem management planning, human wildlife conflict management and anti-poaching measu…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 15Life on Land

Published by

United Nations Development Programme · Multilateral

Countries

Eswatini

Sectors

Biodiversity

Funded by

Global Environment Fund Truste

Implemented by

SWZ-Min. of Tourism&Env. Aff.

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-01005208.

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