Conservation Trust Funds 2020: Global Vision, Local Action
This publication describes the evolution of Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) over the previous decade (2010 to 2020) and provides insights into the expanding roles they could play in the coming years. This report was organized by the Conservation Finance Alliance’s (CFA) Environmental Funds Working Group (EFWG), in collaboration with the three networks of Conservation Trust Funds: the Network of Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Funds (RedLAC); the Consortium of African Funds for the Environment (CAFÉ); and the Asia-Pacific Conservation Trust Fund Network (APNET) and through funding by a generous group of donors. Results presented in this report are based on over 65 interviews with CTF representatives, donors, and stakeholders; the 2020 Global CTF Survey completed by 50 CTFs (Annex 1), and regular feedback from a CTF Study Task Force to the lead authors from Aligning Visions (Paquita Bath), Wolfs Company (Amílcar Guzmán-Valladares and Viviana Luján-Gallegos) and the CFA (Katy Mathias).
Practice Standards for Conservation Trust Funds - 2020 edition
The goal of the update to the Practice Standards was to build on the much-used 2014 edition, by adding content that was not included in the original version due to time constraints, or that emerged from user feedback over the course of five years. After extensive stakeholder consultations, the consulting team of Wolfs Company and Aligning Visions, in partnership with the 2020 CTF Projects Task Force, identified and incorporated the following additions and changes:
New Core Area for Risk Management and Safeguards
Operations Core Area divided into two new Core Areas: Institutional Effectiveness and Programs
New Asset Management standard on aligning a CTF’s investment policy with its mission and values
Cross-cutting themes recognizing standards that appear in more than one Core Area: Communications, Human Resources, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Technology
A new Annex on assessment against the Practice Standards, including sample assessment tools
A new Annex on prioritizing the Practice Standards at different stages of CTF evolution
One consolidated Glossary, with glossary terms hyperlinked to facilitate document navigation
Identifying and Prioritizing a Portfolio of Marine and Coastal Conservation Finance Solutions | Guidance Note - Pilot Version
Coastal and marine ecosystem management and governance institutions face a wide array of choices when it comes to conservation finance mechanisms. The following tool presents a systematic method for brainstorming, defining, and prioritizing suitable finance solutions. This approach is rooted in the definition of conservation finance as "mechanisms and strategies that generate, manage, and deploy financial resources and align incentives to achieve nature conservation outcomes." In most cases, supplementary funding for nature, especially consistent and adequate funding, is a critical but insufficient component of a project's conservation finance portfolio. This approach seeks to take the practitioner through a range of perspectives to generate ideas on how to solve their conservation challenges and respond to opportunities.