The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is assisting the Government of the Republic of Macedonia to implement a Global Environmental Facility (GEF), which aims to create an enabling environment for PA establishment and management in terms of policy, governance, institutional capacity, and management know-how. The objective of the project is to conserve the country’s biological diversity by strengthening the management effectiveness of the country’s PA system as prescribed by its recent Law on Nature Protection. The proposed project will develop the institutional and systemic capacity of the country’s PA agencies to: (i) strengthen the national knowledge systems and apply appropriate technologies to support the design and development of a more representative and viable PA network, (ii) strengthen the decision-support tools needed to secure the legal tenure of, and expand, the PAs in the network, and (iii) locally test these decision-support tools and mechanisms in the formal re-proclamation processes of two pilot protected areas. The project will seek to ensure that PA lands in the country graduate in status from poorly managed to well-managed.