Knowledge base

The Workbook provides an innovative, stepwise and adaptable approach that enables countries to: Assess the policy, institutional, and economic context for biodiversity finance and map existing finance solutions; Measure current biodiversity expenditures, from the public and private sectors, donors and NGOs; Make a reliable estimate of the finance needed to achieve a country’s biodiversity goals, and compare this to current biodiversity expenditures; and develop a biodiversity finance plan that identifies and mobilises the resources and policies required to implement the most suitable finance solutions

The Workbook provides an innovative, stepwise and adaptable approach that enables countries to: Assess the policy, institutional, and economic context for biodiversity finance and map existing finance solutions; Measure current biodiversity expenditures, from the public and private sectors, donors and NGOs; Make a reliable estimate of the finance needed to achieve a country’s biodiversity goals, and compare this to current biodiversity expenditures; and develop a biodiversity finance plan that identifies and mobilises the resources and policies required to implement the most suitable finance solutions

This free, seven-week MOOC will provide you with the tools to assess the policy, institutional, and economic context for biodiversity finance; conduct a financial needs assessment to achieve a country’s biodiversity goals; and develop a biodiversity finance plan that identifies the most suitable finance solutions. This course will teach you how to develop financially sound and politically feasible biodiversity finance plans. The course is aimed at conservation planning and biodiversity finance practitioners and policymakers, but is open to anyone.

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The PIR has been completed and is being readied for publishing. The process included a review of the policies, legal instruments and institutional set ups for biodiversity financing. Through the PIR, Botswana has been able to identify the priority sectors of focus for BIOFIN as well as recommendations of some of the finance solutions for consideration. Good policies and strategies are in place to guide the processes, however, weak institutional mechanisms to support implementation, fragmented responsibilities, and resource inadequacies, centralised decision making which also results in the resource burden on the side of government.

Executive Summary of the 2018 edition of the BIOFIN Workbook

Executive Summary of the 2018 edition of the BIOFIN Workbook

Executive Summary of the 2018 edition of the BIOFIN Workbook

Executive Summary of the 2018 edition of the BIOFIN Workbook

Executive Summary of the 2018 edition of the BIOFIN Workbook