World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Established in 1988, the World Conservation and Monitoring Centre (WCMC) is a wing of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with a remit to develop and share data and knowledge-based tools to help decision-makers understand how they depend on and impact biodiversity. This grant aims to assess the potential impacts of specific commodities on the natural habitats in the Lake Victoria Basin to assess potential impacts of developmental pressures including agricultural expansion, energy production and other sectors and predict the impacts of various scenarios.

To provide baseline information and analyses of current and potential future impacts of major commodities on ecosystems and biodiversity in the Great Lakes of East and Central Africa, the Greater Mekong Headwaters and the Watersheds of the Andes (over two years).

To develop maps of logging concessions in six countries (over two years).