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Preliminary Program of Action for the Conservation Finance Alliance
Although the Alliance is currently in a formative stage and many of the details regarding membership, governance, collaborative activities, etc. will be solidified in the coming months, participants in the initial retreat to create the Alliance did agree on a Preliminary Program of Action.
 

  
 

Preliminary Program of Action

1. Informing and engaging key constituencies

  • As part of a Conservation Finance Communication Strategy, craft messages and materials articulating the importance of sustainable conservation finance mechanisms and highlighting success stories.

  • Present these messages and materials directly to government decision-makers, donors and other constituencies at targeted events (e.g., Biodiversity Convention meetings, GEF Participants Assembly, IUCN World Parks Congress).

2. Training and technical assistance

  • Develop and refine training tools, including the CD-ROM Training Guide to Conservation Finance Mechanisms and customized tools based on the content of the Guide.

  • Provide targeted trainings to government officials, NGOs, etc.

  • Provide targeted joint technical assistance.

3. Mobilizing financial resources

  • As a first necessary step, map conservation funding supply and demand, and correlate demand with execution capacity.

  • Consider and possibly establish Seed Funds for catalyzing new conservation finance mechanisms (e.g., support for feasibility studies).

  
 

Participants in Inaugural Meeting of Conservation Finance Alliance*orangutan

  • African Wildlife Foundation (AWF)
  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat
  • Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
  • International Finance Corporation (IFC)
  • International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
  • IUCN - The World Conservation Union
  • Forest Trends
  • German Government (GTZ and KfW)
  • Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature
  • Ramsar Convention Secretariat
  • RedLAC (Network of Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Funds)
  • The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
  • The World Bank
  • UN Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
  • World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

    * Inclusion on this list does not necessarily indicate membership in the Alliance, since the formal membership is still evolving.
 		  
 

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