Final Assessment of the CEPF Caribbean Islands Programme

Year

Location

Organization

Role

Description

August 2015 - December 2015

Haiti and Jamaica

Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)/ Conversation International

Project Director - Managed the planning and facilitation of the final assessment (evaluation) of the Caribbean Islands program of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF).

The work focused on an evaluation of the first investment of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (2010-2015). Grants to 68 civil society organizations in eight countries (Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines) and territories were awarded to strengthen the protection and management of 468,268 hectares within high priority Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs). In addition, 111,496 hectares within eight KBAs were brought under new protection. The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) enables civil society to protect the world’s biodiversity hotspots—biologically rich ecosystems that are essential to humanity, yet highly threatened.