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).
Chair: Zdenka Piskulich
Zdenka Piskulich is the Director of Enduring Earth since 2021, and has been working as a co-chair of the Environmental Funds Working Group since August of 2019, currently serving as chair of the working group. Before joining the Enduring Earth team, Zdenka led Forever Costa Rica since 2010, and was the president on the Network of Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Funds (RedLac). Previously, she worked at The Nature Conservancy for over thirteen years as a Director for Costa Rica’s Program and as Director of the International Private Land Initiative. She also served as Executive Coordinator of the Center for Environmental Law and Resources (CEDARENA). She is a lawyer and has a master’s degree in International Development from the American University in Washington D.C.
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