Working with FFEM

Eléphants dans l'eau - Arly, Burkina Faso — G Mauvais UICN

FFEM’s financing focuses on 6 areas of activity, related to the main international conventions or agreements: biodiversity, climate, international waters, land degradation – including deforestation, chemical pollutants and the stratospheric ozone layer.

The FFEM tale actions only in co-financing. Co-financing is funding that contributes directly to the specific objectives of the project, and is necessary for its realisation. The project’s steering and/or management is subject to close synergies between co-financings, including that of the FFEM: the contracting authority or the project steering committee is the same for all co-financings.

How does the FFEM take action ?

To carry out its mission of protecting the global environment in developing countries, the FFEM is committed to collaborating with actors related to its intervention themes. Any legal entity may submit a project as long as it is in line with the mandate and guidelines of the FFEM and meets the eligibility, funding and geographical criteria described below.

In its classic projects, the FFEM always provides minority funding for development projects, in the form of a grant, as a complement to other co-financing provided by project leaders, direct beneficiaries and their other financial partners.

The sharing of the cost of operations, the mobilization of local financial resources, or other partners indeed reflect a better appropriation by project leaders and local beneficiaries. Thus, these co-financing contributions help to ensure the sustainability of the programs that the FFEM encourages.