Fondo Ambiental Nacional

Fondo Ambiental Nacional aims to "support financing environmental management towards the sustainable development of Ecuador." about

"We build trust in our work through synergies for conservation with:"

Ecuadorian Government
 * Ministry of the Environment
 * Ministry of Economy and Finance
 * Ministry of Foreign Relations

Local Government
 * Municipality of Guayaquil
 * Municipality of Zamora Chinchipe
 * Provincial Council of Loja
 * Provincial Council of Zamora Chinchipe

Multilateral Cooperation Organizations
 * Andean Development Corporation (CAF)
 * World Bank (WB)
 * Global Environmental Facility (GEF)

Bilateral Cooperation Organizations
 * Federal Republic of Germany: Deutsche Gesellshaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufau (KfW)
 * Kingdom of the Netherlands
 * United States of America: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

International NGOs
 * Conservation International (CI)
 * Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
 * John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
 * Nature Conservancy (TNC)
 * Summit Foundation
 * Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
 * World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
 * World Conservation Union – Netherlands (UICN – NL)

Background
"The Ministry of the Environment (MAE), through the Directorate for Biodiversity, Protected Areas and Wildlife (DNBAPVS), is the entity responsible for the management, administration and coordination of the National System of Protected Areas of Ecuador (NSPA). ..

"The design of the Strategy for NSPA Financial Sustainability has been made possible thanks to technical and financial support from the National System of Protected Areas Project (NSPA-GEF) and to the organizations that make up the so-called “Grupo Promotor” led by the MAE through the DNBAPVS: The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Conservation International (CI), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Fundación Ecociencia, Fundación Natura, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Fondo Ambiental Nacional (FAN)."

Directors
Accessed November 2008:


 * Paul Palacios Martínez
 * Marcela Aguinaga Vallejo
 * Andres Hidalgo Cevallos
 * Roberto Beltran Zambrano
 * Gustavo Chacon Vintimilla
 * Manolo Morales Feijó
 * Jose Javier Guarderas Hidalgo
 * Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro
 * Giovanni Ginatta Higgins
 * Joseph Montgomery Aspiazu
 * Martha Nunez
 * Diego Burneo Aguirre
 * Manuel Haz Alvarez
 * Samuel Sangüeza Pardo

Contact

 * Web: http://www.fan.org.ec

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * MacArthur Foundation: Conservation and Sustainable Development, Recent Grants
 * Ecuador EcoFund