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Discovering the Mangroves of West Africa: Environmental Education Manual
This Environmental Education Manual was produced as part of the “Rice and Mangrove” project implemented by the Guinea-Bissau Institute for Biodiversity and Protected Areas (IBAP). It presents mangrove...
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‘Underpinning action and efficiency to put impetus behind current and future projects’
In creating a position dedicated to capitalisation in September 2020, the FFEM has strengthened capitalisation as a strategic direction for the coming years. Clémentine Dardy, who holds the position,...
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Record level of financial commitments in 2021
By the end of 2021, the FFEM had achieved record-level financial commitments of €30m across 16 projects.
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Event to showcase the FFEM’s expertise
On 16 November 2021, the FFEM presented the challenges and perspectives from its Evaluation and Capitalisation strategy using evaluations of 3 capitalisation approaches from previous projects. After o...
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ACT-DDP side event at COP26
Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann spoke at this ACT-DDP side-event at COP26. The event presented the first lessons learned from this project led by Ademe and IDDRI, concerning the low-carbon transition of c...
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FFEM-supported project to combat coastal erosion in Senegal cited in Jeune Afrique
This issue of the pan-African weekly news magazine looked at solutions to combat coastal erosion in Senegal, including fencing made from typha reeds, as used in an FFEM-supported project.
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The Cocoa of Excellence project on RFI
The FFEM-supported “Cocoa of Excellence” project in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador was featured on the Spanish language programme “Escala en París” on Radio France Internationale (RFI).
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Sealing a public-private partnership for sustainable excellent cocoa and zero deforestation
On 12 October 2021, the FFEM appeared alongside the French Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition, the company Kaoka and its partners at a press conference to formalise their partnership aim...
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Guiana's Amazonian Park Cooperation Project: publication of new thematic overviews
Within the framework of the RENFORESAP project, coordinated by the Amazonian Park in partnership with Suriname and Guyana, whose innovative approach was supported by the FFEM, thematic overviews focus...
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Signing of the Plast’ile project to combat plastic pollution in the Mediterranean
On 9 September 2021, as part of the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress, the FFEM has signed a financing agreement with the NGO SMILO to support the island pilot site of Kerkennah in Tunisia in impleme...
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The Mangroves Initiative at the World Conservation Congress (IUCN, 2021)
With a strong presence at the IUCN Congress, the Mangroves Initiative presented various results at three events:
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IUCN 2020 Congress: Mangroves Thematic Session
As part of the World Conservation Congress, the IUCN, the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM), and the Research Institute for Development (IRD) are organizing a mangroves thematic session: “...
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Meeting days on the sidelines of the IUCN Congress
On the sidelines of the IUCN Congress to be held in Marseille from September 3 to 11, the FFEM is organizing two days dedicated to the Mangroves Initiative.
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Signing of an agreement between WCS and CIB-OLAM for the conservation of biodiversity in the northern Congo
On 8 August 2021, the Government of the Republic of Congo, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB), a subsidiary of OLAM International, signed a trilater...
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The FFEM publishes a new capitalisation on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
This publication is the first component of a new FFEM series on capitalisation and looks back at 40 projects financed and supported by the FFEM in MPAs over the last 25 years, with a view to learning...
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Intersecting capitalisation of the Small-scale Initiatives Programmes (Programme Petites Initiatives - PPIs) A...
Since 2006, the Small-scale Initiatives Programmes (PPIs) have supported African civil society in conserving nature and improving local living conditions. Launched by the FFEM in 2006 and supervised b...
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Datawall of the 2020 - 2021 FFEM activity report
The FFEM invites you to discover its 2020 - 2021 activity report through a new digital medium, a datawall gathering all the testimonies present in the report and the major news published on our websit...
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The FFEM playing an active role at the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in Marseille, from 3 to 11 September...
The French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) will be working with its partners ahead of the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress, to be held 3 - 11 September 2021 in Marseille. Organised every four...
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The FFEM’s 2020 – 2021 Activity Report
Midway through its 2019 - 2022 strategic cycle, the FFEM is publishing its latest Activity Report covering the full range of its actions in 2020 and 2021
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Tropical Forest & Rural Development (TF-RD), a 2021 Equator Prize winner
Tropical Forest & Rural Development, a long-term partner of the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) supported by the FFEM, is one of the 10 winners of the 2021 Equator Prize. Organised by the Unit...
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