Main funding partner
FFEM (Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial) has been working to promote protection of the global environment in developing countries since it was established by the French government in 1994. The fund contributes finantially to development projects with a significant and sustainable impact on one of its major global environmental topics. These can be biodiversity, climate change, the High Seas, land degradation from desertafication and deforestation, persistant organic polutants and the ozone layer.
Principal sources of co-financing
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). An intergovernmental organisation, FAO has 194 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organisation, the European Union. Its employees come from various cultural backgrounds and are experts in the multiple fields of activity FAO engages in. FAO’s staff capacity allows it to support improved governance inter alia, generate, develop and adapt existing tools and guidelines and provide targeted governance support as a resource to country and regional level FAO offices. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, FAO is present in over 130 countries.
Our three main goals are: the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; the elimination of poverty and the driving forward of economic and social progress for all; and, the sustainable management and utilisation of natural resources, including land, water, air, climate and genetic resources for the benefit of present and future generations.
The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, consisting of the central University and colleges. The central University is composed of academic departments and research centres, administrative departments, libraries and museums. The 38 colleges are self-governing and financially independent institutions, which are related to the central University in a federal system.
The Department of Zoology is at the centre of Oxford's research and teaching in whole organism biology. Research is centered on the four themes of behaviour, disease, ecology and evolution.
Main executing partners
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France. The Muséum’s scope of research is broad. Knowledge of the past sheds light on the future as researchers study the natural and environmental sciences and all of the elements that compose them: minerals, plants, animals and microorganisms, as well as the relationship between humans and nature. Its mission is four-fold: fundamental research and its application; management and conservation of its collections; teaching and raising awareness; and finally, building expertise.
The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) is a non-profit policy research institute based in Paris. Its objective is to determine and share the keys for analyzing and understanding strategic issues linked to sustainable development from a global perspective. IDDRI helps stakeholders in deliberating on global governance of the major issues of common interest: action to attenuate climate change, to protect biodiversity, to enhance food security and to manage urbanisation.
The Oceans and Coastal Zones Programme strives to identify and promote strategies to address these challenges, focusing on decisive avenues for action, including: (i) the transformation of economic sectors, such as fisheries, which are currently on an unsustainable development path; (ii) the evolution of private actors’ practices towards better integration of environmental demands, for example in extractive activities; (iii) the construction of management systems—political, legal and institutional frameworks— that help to ensure better governance of the oceans and coasts, through the articulation between global and regional organisations in particular; and (iv) the strengthening of linkages between scientific expertise and decision-making processes.
The IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) is a French research organisation, original and unique on the European development research scene.
Emphasizing interdisciplinarity, the IRD has focused its research for over 65 years on the relationship between man and its environment, in Africa, Mediterranean, Latin America, Asia and the French tropical overseas territories.
Its research, training and innovation activities are intended to contribute to the social, economic and cultural development of southern countries.
The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, consisting of the central University and colleges. The central University is composed of academic departments and research centres, administrative departments, libraries and museums. The 38 colleges are self-governing and financially independent institutions, which are related to the central University in a federal system.
The Department of Zoology is at the centre of Oxford's research and teaching in whole organism biology. Research is centered on the four themes of behaviour, disease, ecology and evolution.
