Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial

Environment, conservation, biodiversity, climate change, land

In the wake of the Rio summit, the French government established the Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial (FFEM) – the French Global Environment Facility – in 1994 to bring its undertakings for protection of the global environment in developing countries into practical effect. The FFEM is a bilateral mechanism that acts to address the degradation of the global environment. The FFEM is an instrument of French cooperation and development policy in the areas of climate change, biodiversity, international waters, land degradation (including desertification and deforestation), persistent organic pollutants and protection of the ozone layer.

Policy

All developing countries, priority is given to the Mediterranean and Africa

Grant

All the projects presented to the FFEM must demonstrate that they allow for meeting eight criteria - contributions to the preservation of the global environment, - contributions to local development, - innovative nature or contributes to disseminating or changing the scale of innovations, - demonstrative nature and reproducibility, - economic and financial sustainability after the project, - ecological and environmental viability, - social and cultural acceptability, - appropriate institutional framework.

This document summarizes the project idea. It is called a Project Opportunity Note (PON). It can be downloaded from the website. To submit this PON, you have to contact one of the six FFEM members institutions (Ministry of Finance, Foreign Affairs, Sustai

AFD, 5 Rue Roland Barthes, 75598 PARIS CEDEX 12, FRANCE; [email protected]

Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Land

Africa