{"id":8137,"date":"2026-03-31T07:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.paprac.org\/projects\/gef-kec\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:05:22","slug":"gef-kec","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/paprac.org\/hr\/projects\/gef-kec\/","title":{"rendered":"GEF &#8211; KEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Partnership<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ministry of Environment Protection and Physical Planning, Croatia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Priority Actions Programme\/Regional Activity Centre<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Geographic scope<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The project covered key karst areas in Croatia, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Park Risnjak\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Park Northern Velebit\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Park Paklenica\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Park Plitvice Lakes\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nature Park Velebit, including adjacent areas\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The geographic scope was defined during the preparation phase, supported by field research conducted in Velebit, Lika and Gorski Kotar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Key objectives<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">conserve biodiversity of karst ecosystems in Croatia\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ensure broad stakeholder involvement in conservation efforts\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">promote economically sustainable approaches aligned with national socio-economic priorities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Main results<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">preparation of project documentation in accordance with GEF standards\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">development of analytical studies, including social and rural development aspects\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">formulation of a comprehensive project framework covering priority protected areas and surrounding regions<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Role of PAP\/RAC<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PAP\/RAC was selected to lead the technical preparation of the project, including the development of studies, formulation of the project, and preparation of documentation required for GEF submission, working in close cooperation with national authorities and international partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11875,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"project-category":[206],"project-status":[194],"class_list":["post-8137","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project-category-other","project-status-completed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paprac.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/8137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paprac.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paprac.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paprac.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paprac.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paprac.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-category?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"project-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paprac.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-status?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}