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Global Conservation Fund (GCF)

May 2010

Effectiveness monitoring

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Why a successful model?

- Developed in collaboration between donor and grantee

- Serves multiple ends/needs

- Clear objective setting at portfolio and project levels at appropriate time scales (the purpose!!)

- Cost effective (<2K/PA/yr)

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Global Conservation Fund

The Global Conservation Fund finances the creation, expansion, and long-term management of protected areas in the world’s biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas, and important marine regions.

- Creation and expansion of PAs- Effective management - Financial viability

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Purpose of monitoring

To understand whether the protected areas GCF has invested in are:

• Sufficiently financed in order to cover recurring protected area management costs (financial sustainability)

• Effectively managed to achieve conservation (biodiversity conservation)

• * also monitor GCF efficiency as a Fund

Monitoring framework:Portfolio level

~110 PAs ~30 projects / funds

Biodiversity Conservation Financial Sustainability

Underlying structure(process)

Outcome(result)

Protected area

management effectiveness

Successful biodiversity conservation

e.g., deforestation

Management indicators

Management indicators

Effective fund

management

Adequate financing

Financial return on

investment & flow of funds to protected

areas

Goal Measured by Goal Measured by

Underlying structures (process)

What success looks like!!

Portfolio management (to target TA)

Conservation Results: Harapan CC

Area (without buffer): 1,013 km2

Deforestation Rate for project site 1990-2000:

0.64% per year

Buffer Area:

3,907 km2

Deforestation Rate for buffered area 1990-2000: 8.26% per year

Total carbon stored: 83,648,475 t CO2 e

Estimated emissions avoided:

5,182,023 t CO2 e

Financial Results: Portfolio

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Challenges

- Start up cost (time burden - required months of dialogue between GCF and GBMF)

- Requires technical capacity and considerable support

- Results focus is a major shift in thinking - needs to be acknowledged

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Opportunities

- Design for utility to grantee, donor/grantee, and donor

- Cost efficient

- Model for PAs and can be applied to conservation projects generally

- Need to articulate clear results to avoid the dung beetle dillema