May 15, 2019

A Carbon Fund to Reduce Deforestation and Improve Living Conditions of population in the Sangha Tri-National forest complex

Sangha Tri-National Trust Fund (FTNS) designed the project to put in place a carbon fund which will contribute to the sustainable management of community forests surrounded TNS national parks through a mechanism based on payment of carbon credits sold in the voluntary carbon market.
September 4, 2019

Biodiversity Offsets in Mozambique inside the Protected Areas Network via a Conservation Trust Fund

In this case study,BIOFUND has supported the creation of a national enabling environment for offsets implementation in partnership with the Government of Mozambique, COMBO Project (consortium of WCS, Biotope and Forest Trends) and UNDP/BIOFIN Project, with co-financing from RedLAC/CAFÉ and USAID/Counterpart International (CPI).
May 15, 2019

Carbon Neutral Organic Banana Project

The mechanism proposed by Profonanpe consists of the creation of a fund for the conservation of biodiversity and the mitigation and adaptation to climate change with resources from the production and marketing of organic bananas with the carbon neutral seal in the Piura region in the north of Peru.
May 15, 2019

Design of a FM for socioeconomic development of territories in the surrounding of large scale infrastructure projects by supporting sustainable forest chains

FUNBIO presents the “Forest Innovation” financial mechanism (FM) which lies at the intersection between socio-economic development and sustainability in territories around large infrastructure projects through the local environmental potentialities (environmental assets).
November 27, 2019

Developing a M&E Strategic Plan for Environmental Funds Focused on Biodiversity Impact

This Plan was prepared from the monitoring and evaluation working group of Project K (Knowledge for Action Project). Its focus is on the processes of monitoring and evaluation of EFs at the institutional level.
May 15, 2019

EF-to-EF Mentorship program between Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (Funbio) and BioGuiné Foundation (FBG)

The mentoring project between the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund – Funbio (mentor) and the BioGuinea Foundation – FBG (mentee) aimed to share knowledge about evaluation and design of financial mechanisms – FMs. It is a Funbio’s expertise and a theme with rare capacity-building opportunities, since the literature on the subject is very limited and there are few environments where there are training on these mechanism
May 15, 2019

EF-to-EF Mentorship program between Fondo Acción and Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust Fund (MMCT)

This case study presents the activities, outcomes, benefits and challenges of a mentorship exchange between Malawi Environmental Endowment Trust (MEET), as the mentee, and Profonanpe, as the mentor, in order to facilitate knowledge transfer and mutual learning around direct access modalities for climate financing through the Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
May 15, 2019

EF-to-EF Mentorship program between Fundación Natura Panama and Fondo de las Américas del Perú (FONDAM)

Through this mentorship with Natura Panama Foundation, FONDAM aimed to develop a short – term strategy to publicize its services and experiences through social media (Facebook and LinkedIN) and its website. In the long-term, this strategy will promote fundraising from the private sector in order to implement climate change adaptation projects through a financial mechanism.
May 15, 2019

EF-to-EF Mentorship program between La Fondation pour le Tri-National de la Sangha (FTNS) and Fondation des Savanes Ouest Africaines (FSOA)

Through the program with FTNS, the FSOA (mentored) could clearly identify the issues and steps of regionalising its financial mechanism which has had significant progress.
May 15, 2019

EF-to-EF Mentorship program between Malawi Environmental Endowment Trust (MEET) and Profonanpe

This case study presents the activities, outcomes, benefits and challenges of a mentorship exchange between Malawi Environmental Endowment Trust (MEET), as the mentee, and Profonanpe, as the mentor, in order to facilitate knowledge transfer and mutual learning around direct access modalities for climate financing through the Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
May 15, 2019

EF-to-EF Mentorship program between Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature, A.C. and Patrimonio Natural Fund

Strengthening between funds recovers and disseminates the most significant experience and learning of the Peer-to-Peer Virtual Presence Project supported by the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature, A.C. (FMCN) and the Patrimonio Natural Fund of Colombia (PN). The main goal was strengthen the capabilities of Patrimonio Natural and FMCN through the joint design of a knowledge management strategy, around strategic issues that make viable the financial sus-tainability of Colombia’s protected areas.
May 15, 2019

Payments for Environmental Services (PES): Lichenya River Catchment Environmental Restoration Action

Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust (MMCT) is facilitating yet to be the first Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) action within the watershed catchment of Lichenya River on Mt Mulanje in the Southern Malawi. The commitment was made available to Mulanje Electricity Generation Agency (MEGA) – a social enterprise,to finance repair of one hydropower generation scheme in exchange for a long-term financial obligation to support upstream catchment landscape management.
October 21, 2019

Practice Standards for EFs: focus on Asset Management & Sustainability

This handbook was prepared for the 2nd workshop of Project K (Knowledge for Action project) “Using the Practice Standards". It focuses on the development of evidenced-based norms, the Practice Standards, for use by EFs and those institutions and individuals who provide financial and technical support to them.
May 15, 2019

Program related investment initiative for climate change adaptation

The Forever Costa Rica Association (FCRA) is launching a Program Related Investment (PRI) Initiative that will catalyze investments, with capital procured from the Debt-for-Nature Swap between Costa Rica and the United States, in small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) or businesses developing sustainable use programs within and surrounding the Second Debt-for-Nature Swap prioritized geographical areas.
November 10, 2019

Programme Monitoring & Evaluation processes in Environmental Funds

This handbook was prepared for the 4th workshop of Project K (Knowledge for Action project). It focuses on monitoring and evaluation processes for EFs.