China Trust Fund provides $300,000 USD grant for the South-South Capacity Building for Ecosystem Management in the Greater Mekong Subregion Project

On 14 December 2012, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (China MEP) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) signed a framework agreement on strategic cooperation.

This agreement involved China MEP committing $2 million annually to the China Trust Fund which focuses on environmental protection in African, ASEAN, and Central Asian countries.

According to a 2017 Final Report from UNEP, $300,000 USD from the China Trust Fund was allocated to the South-South Capacity Building for Ecosystem Management in the Greater Mekong Subregion Project (T2-P1) (p. 58). This project took place in Southwest China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

It began in March 2015 and ended in September 2016.

The expected outcome of the proposed project is enhanced basin-wide institutional capacity for ecosystem management to integrate ecosystem approach into national plans and regional cooperation strategies through identifying and prioritizing capacity needs of key stakeholders of the GMS (Project document, 2015 report).

The project outputs were to include engagement of key stakeholders and an assessment of capacity needs (p. 58).