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About the Conservation Finance Alliance
In order to meet the global conservation funding
challenge, greater collaboration is needed among governments ,
public agencies and NGOs so that information is shared more
systematically, expertise and resources are pooled, and forces are
combined to support specific conservation finance mechanisms
on-the-ground. The Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) was created
in February 2002 to respond to this challenge.
The CFA has now held its second annual meeting in November 2005 and a
summary of what transpired is available
here. A summary of our first annual meeting,
which took place in June 2004, can be found
here.
One of
our most recent developments is the formation of a CFA
Business Planning Committee.
We will post presentations
related to that topic as they become available.
Our CFA
brochure has more description on the need for additional long-term sustainable
financing and the justification for creating the Alliance.
You
will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read most of the documents on this site. If you don't have it, get
it for free at
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Current members of the CFA include:
- Conservation Development Centre (CDC)
- Conservation International (CI)
- DANIDA, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
- FUNBIO, Brazilian Biodiversity Fund
- GTZ
- IUCN, The World Conservation Union
- KfW
- National Parks and Conservation Association
(NPCA)
- The Nature Conservancy
- Latin American and Caribbean Network of
Environmental Funds (RedLAC)
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
- The Royal Society for the Protection of
Birds
- Tropical Forest Conservation Act Secretariat
(USAID)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - Man and the Biosphere Program
(MAB)
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
First-year observer:
- Chemonics International Inc.
To join the CFA, institutions and
organizations must sign a Letter of Intent. Read it
here!
Associate members include:
Conservation
Finance Guide
Prior to the creation of the actual Conservation Finance Alliance,
many of the same organizations that attended the February 2002 retreat
collaborated in the fall of 2001 to produce the CD
Conservation Finance
Guide. The Guide is designed
to help expand the use of
sustainable
 finance
mechanisms to
support the conservation
of biological diversity. It covers a broad cross section of finance mechanisms (e.g., conservation trust funds, tourism user fees, debt-for-nature
swaps, the GEF, bilateral donor agencies, etc.) and contains highly practical,
user-friendly tools to support the use of these mechanisms. We are pleased to be able to offer the
full
contents of the CD online. We also have the full Guide available in
French, and certain chapters
available in Spanish and one
chapter available in
Russian!
ð
Conservation Finance Guide
in English
ð
Conservation Finance Guide
in
French
ð
Conservation Finance Guide
in
Spanish
ð
Conservation Finance Guide
Chapter
in
Russian
A joint project of:
- Conservation International
- Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar,
1971)
- Global Environment Facility
- Biodiversity Planning Support Program
- GTZ
- IUCN: The World
Conservation Union
- National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA)
- The Nature Conservancy
- RedLAC
- UNEP
- Wildlife Conservation
Society
- World Bank
- World Wildlife Fund
CFA History
In February 2002, a retreat was held to create the Conservation Finance
Alliance:
Initial Retreat Participants
Retreat
presentations and discussion papers
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