Rapid Review of Conservation Trust Funds

This Rapid Review of Conservation Trust Funds presents an overview of experience with the creation, operation and evaluation of conservation trust funds (CTFs) and provides a rationale for further investment in CTFs.

The Review is not intended to replicate the Global Environment Facility‘s 1999 comprehensive Evaluation of Experience with Conservation Trust Funds, but rather to review the current status of CTFs worldwide, focusing on those that have been in operation for at least five years. It identifies best practice standards for effective governance and administration of CTFs, and provides guidelines for monitoring and evaluating CTFs‘ operations and biodiversity impact.

The Conservation Finance Alliance Working Group on Environmental Funds commissioned the Review, with support provided by the French Development Agency, French Global Environment Facility, German Development Bank, Conservation International and World Wide Fund for Nature.

The CFA’s Working Group on Environmental Funds was created in 2007 to encourage promotion, knowledge transfer and exchange about environmental funds in support of the protection of global biodiversity.