Start date: 15 March 2023 
End date: 15 March 2029 
Status: Ongoing 
Project Office: Samoa MCO 

Brief Description of the Project

The ENUA project aims to reduce and mitigate negative environmental impacts of the key development sectors (agriculture, infrastructure, tourism), which are the main national drivers of biodiversity and habitat degradation, through mainstreaming integrated, sustainable management of land and coastal waters across the National Environment Service (NES), Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI), Cook Islands Tourism Corporation (CIT), and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). Building upon the achievements of the GEF-5 ridge-to-reef project, the GEF-7 project strategy also includes improving management effectiveness of target protected areas, as well as expansion of the protected area system through establishment of a 118-ha community conserved area safeguarding globally significant biodiversity within the cloud forests of Rarotonga.

The project has 4 main components:

• Component 1: Mainstreaming safeguards to conserve biodiversity and maintain ecosystem services across key development sectors
• Component 2: Improving the management framework to effectively conserve a national protected areas system representative of Cook Islands
• Component 3: Raising awareness, managing knowledge, mainstreaming gender and monitoring, evaluating and disseminating project results  
• Component 4: Monitoring and Evaluation 

Implementing Partner

National Environment Services (NES)

Donors

Global Environment Facility  

Total Contributions

USD3,502,968.00