Outline• Overview of conservation finance portfolio• Overall approach to Conservation Finance• Focus of Conservation Finance Program (Africa, Asia, Central-Latin America)• Current and planned portfolio

• Overview of delivery systems • Staffing • Expertise • Tools • Gaps

• Role in the Conservation Finance Alliance • Needs• Contributions

Actual Status on Ministry Level

• Ministry recognizes the crucial problem of sustainable financing and is willing to reflect about structural and institutional solutions

• At the moment the favorized option to establish a national trust fund (GO and private enterprises) with global outreach cannot be realized, but has to be actively followed on political and technical level

• BMZ is in favor of supporting a reduced number of local trust funds under active participation of sponsors (strategic partnerships)

• A pre-feasibility in Präparation, synthesizing risks and advantages of off-shore funds on different levels (national, EU, Global)

• A pre-selection has to be made concerning the implementation of a strategic partnership pilot action for a Protected area/protected area system, including buffer zone development

Staffing in Biodiversity Protected Area Programs

• Sectoral Department within the Ministry (6)

• Sectoral Department within GTZ HQ (3)

• Special Project „Protected Areas Management and Buffer zone Development“ (1)

• Special Project „Biodiversity“ (3)

• Within Projects all over the world (ar.30) organized in regional networks for „Regional Development (sub-Groups CBNRM)“

• Short-Term experts for financing questions (limited).

Current Portfolio BMZ

• Bilateral Technical assistance around 25 Mio US $/year for around 45 projects/programs

• Bilateral Financial Assistance• Contributions to NRO‘s (IUCN, WWF etc)• Contributions to Global Environmental

Facility (GEF)• Contributions to EU

German Nature Conservation Projects Africa

German Nature Conservation Projects Asia

German Nature Conservation Projects Latin-America

Adress:Rolf-Peter Mack

ABS-LISTRAGTZ Eschborn Mail:

Rolf.Mack@gtz.deFon: 0049- 06196-79-

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WEB:http:/www.gtz.de/listra/index.html

Supraregional ProjectProtected Area Management and Livelihood Systems and Tropical Forest

Areas (ABS-LISTRA)