Monitoring the Impact of Environmental Fund Projects    7
                      on Biodiversity Conservation in Protected Areas
                            RedLAC Capacity Building Project for Environmental Funds
        Scaling up Conservation Finance
        The Latin America and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds – RedLAC – was created in 1999 and  cur-
      rently includes 25 funds from 15 countries. Its mission is to set up an effective system of learning, capacity building 
      and cooperation through a Network of Environmental Funds (EFs) aimed at contributing to the conservation and 
      sustainable use of natural resources in the region. 
        RedLAC, with the support of the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation and the French Fund for the Global 
      Environment (FFEM, for its name in French), implements a capacity building project with the objective of strength-
      ening the capacity of EFs to develop innovative financial mechanisms for biodiversity conservation, reducing their 
      dependence on donations, and supporting the establishment of new EFs, by systematizing and sharing proven best 
      practices in funds day-to-day operations.
        This project, coordinated by the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund – Funbio - on behalf of the RedLAC membership, 
      has the goal of promoting the implementation of new revenue streams for the Funds’ portfolios, creating financially 
      sustainable sources of funding for these institutions to invest in conservation. Having knowledge management as 
      its core, the project will systematize the existing information on different topics of interest for EFs and build new 
      content based on the collective experience of the Funds’ community.
        This manual was prepared to support the seventh workshop of the capacity building initiative, focusing on im-
      pact monitoring of biodiversity conservation by Environmental Funds in Protected Areas. This manual emerges from 
      the work developed by the RedLAC Impact Monitoring Working Group, which debated the theme in 2012 with the 
      support of experts and case study analysis. Funbio organized this workshop in collaboration the Profonanpe, in the 
      city of Lima, Peru on November 09 to 11, 2012.
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                                                                                         Contents
                                                                                      Contenido
                                               5        Summary
                                               7        Introduction
                                               11 Overview of Impact Assessment Approaches
                                               17 Environmental Fund Experiences
                                               21 A RedLAC System for Assessing Impacts on 
                                                        Biodiversity – a First Approach
                                               27 Looking Forward
                                               29 Bibliography
                                               33 Annexes
                                               58 Case Study: Monitoring Biodiversity In Alto 
                                                        Chagres
                                               64 Case Study: CLMA FUNDESNAP Monitoring
                                               75 Conclusions
      Authors: Allen D. Putney and Paquita Bath
      Authors of the cases:
      Vilna Cuéllar (Fundación Natura Panamá), Rafael Samudio (SOMASPA) and Julieta Samudio (SOMASPA)
      Imke Oetting (FUNDESNAP)
      RedLAC Impact Monitoring Working Group (participants in 2012): Alberto Paniagua,  Carlos 
      Hernández, Favio Ríos, Humberto Cabrera (Profonanpe); Ana Beatriz Barona (Patrimonio Natural), 
      Christine Valerio, Natalie Rosado, Nayari Díaz (PACT Belize), Claudia Correa, Maria Elena Santana 
      (Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez), Edgard Espinoza, Pamela Castillo, Zdenka Piskulish (Costa 
      Rica por Siempre), Edmilce Ugarte (Fondo de Conservación de Bosques Tropicales Paraguay), Fabio 
      Leite (Funbio), José Santamaría, Vilna Cuellar, Maylleli Cabrera, Rosa Montañez (Fundación Natura 
      Panamá).
      Invited specialists: Carlos Quintela (RedLAC Capacity Building Project Committee), Curan Bonham 
      (Conservation International), Rudy Valdivia (SERNANP).
      Coordination: Camila Monteiro (Funbio).
           Monitoring the Impact of Environmental Fund Projects on Biodiversity 
         Conservation in Protected Area:  RedLAC Capacity Building Project for 
         Environmental Funds / Allen D. Putney and Paquita Bath. – Rio de Janeiro: 
         RedLAC, 2012.
         Authors of the cases:
           Vilna Cuéllar (Fundación Natura Panamá), Rafael Samudio (SOMASPA) and 
           Julieta Samudio (SOMASPA)
           Imke Oetting (FUNDESNAP)
         66p.: il; 29cm.     
                               
         1. Impact Monitoring. 2. Protected Areas. 
           3. Biodiversity conservation.             
                    
                                                                             
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