Completed projects

• 262% of the placement of hectares in PSA within the priority areas selected for biodiversity conservation.
• An increase of 130% against the goal of women participating in the PPSA.
• An increase of 882% compared to the original goal of land belonging to indigenous communities in the program.
• The project was evaluated as: "highly satisfactory" by the independent Blue Ribbon Panel.
• This project with a rating of 99% was classified by the World Bank as the second best project in the world for this year
• Provide additional sources of funding to expand the PPSA.
• Refocus the PPSA in its entirety on global and regional biodiversity conservation priorities, as well as the interests of the national society.
• Strengthening of the institutional and technical capacity of Fonafifo.
• Increase in the efficiency of the PPSA, making it a model to follow for other countries.

This project emerged under two objectives:

Development objective: promote, the conservation of biodiversity of global importance, in the Costa Rican territory and guarantee the long-term sustainability of this diversity by supporting the development and implementation of market instruments to promote the conservation of forests in zones of buffering protected areas and in the biological corridors that connect them.

Environmental objective: to improve the conservation of globally significant biodiversity and ensure its long-term sustainability by supporting the development and implementation of market-based instruments in order to promote forest conservation in the buffer zones of protected areas and biological corridors that communicate them.

• Incorporated 3.5 million trees into the farms in PSA-SAF during the period.
• Designed and implemented the assessment matrix for the selection of farms that generate the most environmental services.
• Increased the participation of farms of less than 100 hectares (at the beginning of the project 1,900 and at the closing more than 4,700 small and medium participating producers).
• Establishment of the indigenous Territories as priority areas for the PPSA.
• Increase in the participation of women owners of PES projects by 173%.
• Implementation of 3 Basin Management Plans.
• Efforts were initiated to evaluate the potential effects on both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
• Increased to 297,432 hectares in its different modalities, exceeding the initial goal of at least 288,000 hectares.
• Constitution of the Sustainable Biodiversity Fund (FBS).
• Registration of a MDL-Forestry project to the Convention on Climate Change.
• Supported the start of the REDD + Strategy and the Carbon Neutrality Country Program.
• Technical strengthening at Fonafifo.
• Monitoring and follow-up of contracts.

Contribute to improve the net balance of CO2 emissions in Costa Rica and increase other positive external effects derived from forests.

• 95% of the resources were invested in the PPSA and the remaining 5% covered consulting costs and acquisition of equipment to strengthen the institutions involved.
• Under the project, Fonafifo managed to formalize 840 PSA contracts, equivalent to an area of 74,083 hectares, practically doubling the initial goal established (42,700 hectares).
• Provision of resources (vehicles, field equipment and computer equipment) to 4 sub-regional offices of the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) involved and to 2 regional offices of FONAFIFO.