Environmental Funds Working Group
About the Environmental Funds Working Group
The EF Working Group was established in 2007 and is now comprised of 122 members from 33 countries.The focus of this group is the development of Environmental Funds as a mechanism for conservation finance. The mission of the CFA's Environmental Funds Working Group is to encourage promotion, knowledge transfer and exchange about environmental funds among relevant funds, donors and NGOs. The purpose of these environmental funds, and thus the WG’s aim as well, is the protection of global biodiversity.
Specific areas of interest include:
Governance issues and best practices
Asset management, including endowment funds
Analysis and promotion of various revolving revenue opportunities
Innovative financing for Environmental Funds
Operational practices
Monitoring and evaluation
Specifically, the activities of the Environmental Funds Working Group include:
Analysis and communication of best practices in designing and managing environmental funds
Development and maintenance of tools to help create new environmental funds and to improve the management of existing environmental funds
Raise awareness and disseminate updated information on environmental funds
Management and enhancement of the Environmental Funds Toolkit (online).
Chairs: Zdenka Piskulich & Robbie Bovino
Zdenka Piskulich is the former Executive Director of Costa Rica por Siempre and has been working as a co-chair of the Environmental Funds Working Group since August of 2019.
Robbie Bovino is a Senior Policy Advisor supporting The Nature Conservancy's Caribbean, Latin America and International Government Relations programs. In ten years at the Conservancy, Robbie has focused much of his effort on conservation finance, supporting the design, establishment, and operations of a regional financing architecture in the Caribbean comprised of nine unique environmental funds, and advising other Conservancy business units on the design and establishment of environmental funds and sustainable financing mechanisms. A qualified attorney, Robbie has a Bachelor's degree from McGill University and a law degree from the American University in Washington DC.
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Upcoming Events
As a follow-up to the publication of the 2020 edition of the Practice Standards for Conservation Trust Funds, we are pleased to announce a series of monthly webinars exploring these Standards in more depth. Each webinar, to be held on the third Tuesday of the month, will focus on specific content of the 2020 edition (Core Areas and/or Cross-Cutting Themes). The webinars are hosted by the CFA's Environmental Funds Working Group.
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Conservation Trust Funds 2020:
Global Vision, Local Action
A comprehensive analysis of CTFs, including findings and trends from the past decade, with a look ahead to the future.
In 2019, the Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA), along with a strong task force of experienced volunteers from CTFs and donor organizations, and in collaboration with the networks of Conservation Trust Funds – RedLAC (the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds), CAFÉ (the Consortium of African Funds for the Environment) and APNET (Asia-Pacific Conservation Trust Fund Network) began the planned updating of the Practice Standards with the aim of maintaining the same evidenced-based norms that have proven so useful for the CTFs and the institutions and individuals who support them.