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ASA Project / Unsupported conservation areas
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ASA Project / Unsupported conservation areas
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ASA Project / Unsupported conservation areas
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ASA Project / Unsupported conservation areas
Period
2019 – Permanente
Beneficiaries
PNB, RNP, PNM
Partners
ANAC
Annual Budget
Approx. USD 300,000
The ASA Project was established to support publicly managed Conservation Areas that, by 2019 (when the project began), had little or no external assistance. Hence its name “Áreas Sem Apoio” – Unsupported Areas (ASA). The project is financed exclusively through BIOFUND’s endowment returns and has an open-ended implementation period, covering Banhine and Mágoè National Parks and Pomene National Reserve. It is the first project to be fully funded (since inception) by BIOFUND’s endowment annual income, with an average annual budget of about USD 300,000.
The project ensures coverage of essential operating costs in the three beneficiary areas and provides provisional salary support for about 30 rangers and support staff at Mágoè National Park. Between 8 and 14 seasonal workers are hired annually for road maintenance, beach cleaning, and operational tasks in Pomene National Reserve.
It also strengthened community governance by training 17 Natural Resource Management Committees (CGRNs) in the buffer zone of Banhine National Park. Conservation actions include fire control, mangrove replanting, and training of over 100 rangers, later integrated into the national system. Community awareness activities have already reached 5,783 community members, promoting the dissemination of results and goals from the Banhine National Park Management Plan 2022–2032.
These activities were co-financed with funds from the State Budget, Peace Parks Foundation, the BIO Emergency Fund Project, MozRural (World Bank funding), and PCB (SIDA funding), the latter three through BIOFUND.
