International network

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a global non-governmental organization whose mission is the conservation of nature.
Through its mission, IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and biodiversity of nature, and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.

It is composed of both governments and civil society organizations. It harnesses the experience, resources and reach of its more than 1,400 Member organizations and the input of more than 17,000 experts. This diversity and vast expertise makes IUCN the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.

FAPBM is a full member of IUCN and benefits from the exchanges and learning offered by this platform.

In 2020, IUCN launched its Global Standard on Nature-based Solutions. FAPBM is fully convinced of this new approach and will aim to apply it in its own interventions.

FAPBM has become a Member of the Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) in 2020. The CFA gathers conservation finance, protected area financing and environmental funds experts.

This registration gives access to a range of resource materials published by the CFA and its partners. As well, it allows FAPBM to participate in working groups that strengthen its networking within the field of protected area and biodiversity financing. These working groups specialize in protected areas finance, environmental funds, innovative financing themes, and financing of marine and coastal areas.

In 2010, the CFA published the Practice Standards for Conservation Trust Funds which has stand as a reference for all Environmental Funds in Africa and Latin America. FAPBM was granted the support of its capital contributors, notably KfW and FFEM, to comply with these standard principles. In 2020, these standard principles were updated. FAPBM took part in the panel at the RedLAC General Assembly in October 2020 to present the revised standard principles.

The Consortium of African Funds for the Environment (CAFÉ) is a member-based network of environmental funds in Africa. It has been operational since 2011. CAFÉ has a total of 18 Member Funds that, among other things, manage over 90 parks and reserves covering more than 140,000 square kilometers across 12 countries in Africa. Currently, the CAFÉ Secretariat is hosted by the Malawi Environmental Endowment Trust (MEET) in Malawi.

Active involvement in the network

The Foundation takes part in the Annual General Assembly which are organized successively by the Member Funds. So, FAPBM hosted the CAFE General Assembly in 2013.

Beyond the statutory aspects, CAFE meetings are a privileged opportunity to exchange trust funds best practices in Africa and to benefit from capacity building workshops. For example, FAPBM participates in the work of subcommittees set up by the CAFE Executive Secretariat to address topics of general interest.
CAFÉ, a link to the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds (RedLAC).

Through a partnership agreement between CAFE and the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds (RedLAC), FAPBM participates attends in the annual general assembly of RedLAC and benefits from capacity building. Members of the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds (RedLAC) manage a total of 53 environmental funds in the South American region.

The COMBO project, financed by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM), are aimed at developing the compensation mechanism, or offset. Implemented in Madagascar by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, in partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society, Biotope and Forest Trend, the project objective is to reconcile economic development with biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services through activities targeting an Absence of Net Biodiversity Lossmech.

The project operates in four African countries: Madagascar, Mozambique, Uganda, and Guinea Conakry for a period of four years (2016 to 2020).

FAPBM's experience in managing the QMM offset program will be shared within the framework of the COMBO project.