1. Outline Overview of conservation finance portfolio Overall approach to Conservation Finance Focus of Conservation Finance Program (Africa, Asia, Central-Latin America)AfricaAsiaCentral-Latin America Current and planned portfolioCurrent Overview of delivery systems Staffing Expertise Tools Gaps Role in the Conservation Finance Alliance Needs Contributions

2. Actual Status on Ministry Level Ministry recognizes the crucial problem of sustainable financing and is willing to reflect about structural and institutional solutions At the moment the favorized option to establish a national trust fund (GO and private enterprises) with global outreach cannot be realized, but has to be actively followed on political and technical level BMZ is in favor of supporting a reduced number of local trust funds under active participation of sponsors (strategic partnerships) A pre-feasibility in Präparation, synthesizing risks and advantages of off-shore funds on different levels (national, EU, Global) A pre-selection has to be made concerning the implementation of a strategic partnership pilot action for a Protected area/protected area system, including buffer zone development

3. Staffing in Biodiversity Protected Area Programs Sectoral Department within the Ministry (6) Sectoral Department within GTZ HQ (3) Special Project „Protected Areas Management and Buffer zone Development“ (1) Special Project „Biodiversity“ (3) Within Projects all over the world (ar.30) organized in regional networks for „Regional Development (sub- Groups CBNRM)“ Short-Term experts for financing questions (limited).

4. Current Portfolio BMZ Bilateral Technical assistance around 25 Mio US $/year for around 45 projects/programs Bilateral Financial Assistance Contributions to NRO‘s (IUCN, WWF etc) Contributions to Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Contributions to EU

5. German Nature Conservation Projects Africa

6. TC-FC-Cooperation TC-project FC-project German Nature Conservation Projects Africa

7. German Nature Conservation Projects Asia

8. German Nature Conservation Projects Latin-America

9. Adress: Rolf-Peter Mack ABS-LISTRA GTZ Eschborn M ail: Rolf.Mack@gtz.deRolf.Mack@gtz.de Fon: 0049- 06196-79-1437 WEB:http:/www.gtz.de/listra/index.html Supraregional Project Protected Area Management and Livelihood Systems and Tropical Forest Areas (ABS-LISTRA)