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Protected Area Management and Wildlife Conservation Project - Sri Lanka

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Background

In 1997, as part of the country strategy agreed between the Government of Sri Lanka and ADB, ADB approved a Project Preparatory Technical Assistance (PPTA) grant to formulate a project in Sri Lanka to

• conserve wildlife biodiversity
• develop nature-based tourism
• strengthen community participation in protected area (PA) management

Subsequently, the project was found to be eligible, in principle, for co-financing by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The World Bank, as a GEF implementing agency, agreed to jointly process the project with ADB.

An additional technical assistance financed by the GEF was mobilized in October 1999, to modify the project design to be consistent with GEF eligibility criteria and to initiate a policy and institutional reform agenda that was identified during PPTA factfinding.

The Government of the Netherlands also agreed to co-finance the project, given its strategic focus on assisting in the environment sector in Sri Lanka. The PPTA ended in May 2000 with ADB, GEF, and the Government of the Netherlands reaching an understanding with the Government of Sri Lanka on the project's design and accompanying policy dialogue. The corresponding ADB loan was approved in October 2000.

The project is financed by the

• Government of Sri Lanka, $7.6 million
• Asian Development Bank, $12 million loan
• Global Environment Facility, $9 million grant
• Government of the Netherlands $4 million grant

The project commenced in September 2001 and will end in December 2006.

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