The Colombian rainforest provides both local and national resources (of land and first nature) and global public goods (the ecosystem services of biodiversity) for which international funding and governance arrangements exist. They also provide a home for indigenous communities long the custodians of these forests. How can these pressures and trade-offs best be reconciled?
Project goals: To examine how the protection and management of Colombian rainforests is enabled and shaped by different (international) funding practices, and to explore how these practices can be improved to facilitate local community guardianship and the co-creation of a more sustainable biodiversity protection agenda.
Results and effects: • Mapping of the types of biodiversity funding and their effects. • Assessment of the »value» that different types of funding create • Transferable policy lessons for financing of global public goods (like biodiversity)
