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.
December 11, 2014

BioCultura Programme: resource mobilization and co-management practices

FUNDESNAP presents the financial resource leveraging plan for the BioCultura Programme, which is co-managed between the Fund and other stakeholders. Resources were raised from multiple domestic and foreign donors.
December 12, 2014

Biodiversity impact offset: partnering with the extractive sector in Colombia

A detailed account of the partnership between Fondo Acción and AngloGold Ashanti, a gold mining company. The case presents three initiatives, including the development of a biodiversity impact offset strategy for the company.
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.
December 12, 2014

Compensation at Rio de Janeiro: the Biodiversity Conservation Mechanism

Funbio presents a detailed account of its project in partnership with the government of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The financial mechanisms manages and executes resources from private companies that must meet mandatory compensation targets.
October 21, 2019

Cultivating Successful Cooperation Between Environmental Funds, Donors and Investors

This handbook was prepared for the 1st workshop of Project K (Knowledge for Action project). It focuses on how to negotiate with the private sector and address international cooperation for EFs.
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 MAR Fund, Pacífico, and the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund

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.
December 10, 2014

Environmental Funds and Payment for Ecosystem Services

The handbook defines main concepts for payment for ecosystem services, presents a step by step approach to develop a PES project and proposes the main roles […]
December 12, 2014

Extractive Industries and the financial sustainability of protected areas in Bolivia

A strategic partnership between FUNDESNAP and Gas Oriente Boliviano is presented in this case. The company partly owns and operates a gas pipeline that runs across Bolivia. FUNDESNAP acts as an administrator and facilitator between stakeholders.
December 12, 2014

Extractive Industries and the Role of Environmental Funds

The handbook discusses the contemporary context of extractive industries in Africa and explores how EFs can work with these companies. It is completed by analysis of examples and challenges.
December 11, 2014

Flexible resource mobilization in Ecuador: the Socio Bosque Fund

FAN introduces the flexible and adaptable Socio Bosque Fund. The case details how various funding sources are able to make use of the same financial mechanism.