Honduras Incorporates Aspects of Biological Diversity at the Highest National Planning
Honduras (hn)
2008 reporting
(2008)[1]
Honduras incorporates aspects of biological diversity at the highest national planning tool such as the National Strategy for Poverty Reduction, Environmental Policy in the Policy for the Agrifood Sector and Rural Environment, in Forest Policy, Protected Areas and Wildlife of Honduras, as well as in the National Policy on Water Resources is in the process of consultation. In terms of strategies, are considered in the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, the National Ecotourism Strategy, National Strategy for Environmental Goods and Services.
Sectoral development programs that incorporate elements of biodiversity are the National Forest Programme, the National Fisheries and Aquaculture (PRONAPAC), the National Rural Development Programme (PRONADERS) and the National Action Plan to Combat Desertification .
Budgetallocationscan be reportedare those forBiodiversityManagementin theMinistry of Natural Resourcesand Environmentand the Department ofProtectedAreasand Wildlifein theAFE /COHDEFOR, whose annual valueamounts toapproximately U.S.$ 400,000.00respectively
The country has about 32 NGOs working with co-management agreements in managing protected areas and manage resources from different sources: however, there is no record of them.
2010 reporting
(2010)[2]
2.5 Identification of national funds and / or international organizations devoted to priority activities
There has been an exercise by which we can deduce what has been the investment made to achieve progress in the implementation of each activity in the strategy, and we can not focus the analysis on "priority actions" because, as previously mentioned, ENB in that classification was not considered. However, the projects have been implemented, such as Forests and Rural Productivity Project, Project Rio Platano Biosphere, Land Administration Project of Honduras and Integrated Ecosystem Management Project, have contributed significant financial resources to strengthen protected areas. The above initiatives are implemented by government agencies, mainly the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, or the now National Institute of Forest Conservation, Protected Areas and Wildlife (formerly Honduran Forest Development Corporation).
The amount of resources allocated in the budget of the Department of Protected Areas and Wildlife COHDEFOR ranged between U.S. $ 500,000 in 1997 to U.S. $ 200.000 in 2004, passing for amounts between $ 800,000 and $ 700,000 between 1998 and 2000 (TNC, 2009). For the period from 2004 to 2006 the average budget of the institution in general was 4.5 million lempiras to cover both wages and salaries and operating expenses for the same period were managed, on average, funds in the order of 51 Millions of Lempiras.
In the case of strategic guidelines regarding in-situ Conservation, developed a financial gap analysis of the National Protected Areas System (Obando, 2008) (Table 40), for the preparation of which used data from 3 years previous work ( 2005-2007), and the general idea, as mentioned in the document ,"... is not to present a thorough analysis, basically emphasizes the need to know how much money you have invested the protected areas, where and how they have invested in recent years. ".
Table 40.EXPENSESBYEXPENDITURECATEGORYSINAPH
PERIOD2005-2007(*)
(Assumesfunding fromown resources,governmentgrantsand /or loans)
Descriptionof the category of expenditureTotal
Personal58,869,677.19
Services 19, 983,118.17
Materials andSupplies13,994,510.24
Team 2,526,500.60
Special Studies19,823,495.19
Investmentin infrastructure22,825,571.43
Another 19, 997,285.10
TotalExpendituresL.174,580,045.30
US$ 8,817,174.00
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(*)Taken and adapted fromObando, 2008
[1] Honduras (2008). Third National Report, Secretaría de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (SERNA), 195 pp.
[2] Honduras (2010). IV Informe de Pais, Secretaría de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (SERNA), 185 pp.