FFEM (Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial)

FISP Climat. Call for expressions of interest

FISP CLIMAT, a new funding operation from the FFEM

Launch of the innovation facility for the public sector in the field of climate change

Call for expressions of interest

2012 Forum on Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean, 25 to 28 November in Antalya, Turkey

A unique Forum on the Sea, to benefit societies around the Mediterranean

For the first time in the Mediterranean region, a Forum hosting 300 key players in marine issues from the 21 Mediterranean countries.

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2012 Forum MedMPA

Presentation of the FFEM Annual Report 2011

In 2011, the FFEM committed 26 billion € to 18 sustainable development projects. 84% of its grants were for Africa and the Mediterranean.

2011 Annual Report

2011 Annual Report

Conference – Biodiversity in the Sahel and Sahara

Meeting the challenge of biodiversity preservation in the Sahel and Sahara: Niger’s Termit and Tin-Toumma National Nature Reserve

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Biodiversity

Conference on "Feedback from experience and forward-looking discussions on sustainable forest management in the Congo Basin"

What is the outlook for the Congo Basin’s forests by the year 2040? What are the lessons to be drawn from twenty years of efforts towards sustainable management of these forests?

Conférence on Congo Basin

The Quirimbas National Park in Mozambique is a pilot site for ecosystem management to address the challenges of climate change.

The project’s goal is to preserve the integrity of natural resources for the benefit of local people in the Park area.

Natural resources & adaptation

Franco-Colombian cooperation - strengthening capacities for the use of climate change mitigation mechanisms

A new project under contract with CORMAGDALENA to develop potential for implementing the CDM and REDD+ mechanisms in the Rio Grande de la Magdalena Basin

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Colombia – REDD+ and CDM

Cameroon: partner NGOs trained on financial and accounts management

07/05/2013

Organized for 13 representatives of NGOs that are recipients of funding from the Small Initiatives Programme (SIP) and currently executing biodiversity conservation projects in Cameroon (4) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (1), the training workshop ...
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Recruitment of a consultant to conduct a training for Central African environmental NGOs

01/04/2013

In the frame of the Small-Scale Initiatives program (PPI-3) of the FFEM, IUCN – Papaco is seeking a qualified consultant specialized in planning, preparing, management and monitoring of projects for the facilitation of a training workshop in Yaounde. ...
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Innovation facility for the private sector in climate change - FISP CLIMAT

Private sector companies, are you fighting against climate change in the Sub-Saharan Africa, Caribbean and Pacific zone or in the North Africa - Mediterranean region or, more generally, in developing countries? Send your project proposal to the FFEM in the framework of FISP-Climat.

To submit an application, please read the call for expressions of interest file and reply before 8 April 2013, Paris time.

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The FFEM

The FFEM (the French Global Environment Facility/Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial) has been working to promote protection of the global environment in developing countries since it was established by the French government in 1994.
Overall strategy

Our activities are in line with the strategic priorities of French development assistance policy.
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FFEM 2011 annual report - (PDF - 7752 Ko)

ACTIVITIES

The FGEF is mandated to cofinance development projects with high environmental component in the areas of biodiversity, the greenhouse effect, international waters, land degradation and desertification, persistent organic pollutants and the stratospheric ozone layer.
Biodiversity protection and preservation
Climate change action

Preserving the ozone layer - Montreal Protocol

PROJECTS

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Small Scale Initiatives

SMALL-SCALE INITIATIVES PROGRAMME

Created in 2006, the FFEM's Small-Scale Initiatives Programme (SSI) aims to support African civil society groups working on biodiversity and climate change by providing grants to small-scale projects.
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SSI Phase 3

The third SSIP phase covers the period July 2011 - July 2013 .

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Small initiatives for a full-scale program (2012) - (PDF - 4081 Ko)

This brochure provides an overview of projects on SSIP financing since 2006. In 7 years 100 projects funded in 25 countries for a total amount of € 5.1 million FFEM .

SSI programme (2010, only in French) - (PDF - 4186 Ko)

This brochure provides an overview of projects on SSIP financing between 2006 and 2010.

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This section describes all FGEF publications.
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FFEM 2011 annual report - (PDF - 7752 Ko)