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PUBLIC SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS
Engagement with the public sector provides a route
to scale for many of our most important programmes
and priorities.
It enables us to influence international financial frameworks to mobilize
a level of resources we'd never be able to match on our own, while playing
a leading role in their deployment on the ground. And as sustainability
becomes an increasingly important factor in development planning and
government policy, we can offer significant expertise and experience.
In 2016, we became an international implementing entity of the Green
Climate Fund, the climate change funding mechanism set up through
the Paris Agreement - meaning we'll be able to draw on the fund to
support governments in designing climate programmes and projects.
As a project agency for the Global Environment Facility, which
invests in the planet's biggest environmental issues, we have been given
a role to help governments fulfil their environmental goals and priorities.
We work on several projects, including helping to expand Madagascar's
marine protected areas with the Malagasy government and the
World Bank.
We were one of the key contributors to the Africa Development Bank's
influential African Economic Outlook Report, launched in May
2016. Our expertise - underpinning the section on Sustainable Cities
and Structural Transformation - means we're able to help define
development pathways across the continent, highlighting the
importance of environmental sustainability in economic growth.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the long-term support of
our development partners USAID and the German development bank
KfW enabled WWF-DRC to sign an agreement with the Congolese
Institute for Nature Conservation to co-manage the Salonga National
Park, the largest in Africa. We'll be assuming technical leadership of
the project, working with partners like Oxfam in the park's vicinity
on rural development and sustainable agriculture. Vital funds and
resources to the tune of €17 million are provided by the European
Union Development Fund.
We also received the prestigious Energy Globe Award for our
EcoMakala project in the eastern DRC. The project is an important
example of different partners coming together and of conservation
supporting development. The project enables local people to grow
wood for charcoal, while introducing more efficient stoves to reduce
energy use. This helps to protect natural forests in crucial areas around
Virunga National Park, while improving people's health and generating
much needed income.
Partners include the European Union, the Centre for International
Forestry Research, the International Fertilisers Development Centre,
the Département International de l'Office National des Forêts, the
Swedish International Development Agency, the Norwegian Agency
for Development Cooperation, and the African Development Bank.
Co-ordinating contributions from multiple partners is a challenge,
but enables us to play to our strengths while multiplying our impact.
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