Caribbean Biodiversity Fund
Tanja Lieuw is a highly experienced professional in conservation finance and environmental policy, currently serving as the Conservation Finance Program Manager at the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund since August 2022. Prior to this role, Tanja worked as a Climate Change and Environment Policy Officer with the FAO from June 2019 to August 2022, and as a Climate Change Consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank between July 2017 and May 2019. Tanja also has expertise in monitoring and evaluation, having held the position of Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the National Institute for Environment and Development in Suriname, focusing on the REDD+ project. Earlier career experiences include consultancy roles with the World Wildlife Fund and the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Programme, as well as academic contributions as a part-time lecturer in Hydrology at the University of Suriname. Tanja holds a degree in Conservation of Biodiversity from the University of the West Indies and another in Water Management from Delft University of Technology.
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Caribbean Biodiversity Fund
Established in September 2012, the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) is a regional Environmental Fund whose objective is to provide a sustainable flow of resources to support activities that contribute substantially to the conservation, protection and maintenance of biodiversity in the Caribbean. The CBF mobilises resources and channels support to partners and projects. Currently, the CBF manages approximately USD 70 million through 2 financial instruments: The Endowment Fund With about USD 43 million, the endowment is a permanent funding source to the National Conservation Trust Funds (NCTFs), who in turn lead grant-making programs at the national level. One of the CBF’s endowment key principles is that national partner funds must create sustainable finance mechanisms to trigger a minimum of 1:1 match to the CBF endowment resources. The revenue sources can be private and/or public. Donors to date include the Government of Germany through the German Development Bank (KfW), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) — through the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) — and The Nature Conservancy. The EbA Facility With about USD 26.5 million, this is a sinking fund to provide resources directly to selected national and regional projects on Ecosystem-based Adaptation to climate change. The EbA Facility funded projects will be selected by a technical committee (the EbA Committee) in a competitive basis, through Calls for Proposals that will start to be launched in 2018. The fund initial donation was fully contributed by Government of Germany through the German Development Bank (KfW) and has an estimated duration of 5 years. The CBF continues to raise non-permanent and permanent funding to bring on additional countries and for regional conservation and sustainable development actions.