The author wishes to thank the World Bank’s Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program team, in particular Ana Maria Gonzalez Velosa, ASL Coordinator, who provided early guidance and advice in the survey design, identifying key contacts, and review of this report, and Maria Belen Duran who provided support in the review of the report. Genevieve Connors, Practice Manager for the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice in Latin America and the Caribbean, provided advice and quality assurance. Peer review for the report was provided by Nancy Lozano Gracia, Lead Economist, World Bank; Nicholas Menzies, Senior Governance Specialist, World Bank; Enrique Ortiz, Senior Program Director, Andes Amazon Fund; Thomas Rhodes, Director, Amazon Regional Environment Program, USAID; Yves Lesenfants, Sustainability & Inclusion Senior Specialist - Forest Conservation, IDB; Tatiana Schor, Unit Chief of the Amazon Region, IDB; and Santiago Monroy Taborda, Operations Specialist, IDB. Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep (Harsh), Hrishikesh Prakash Patel, and Isabel Maria Ramos Tellez from the World Bank Disruptive Knowledge, Information & Data Services team skillfully applied their creativity and expertise to update an online version of this report with dynamic data visualizations. The author would also like to thank Renata Zincone for her graphic design work.
We would also like to thank the numerous individuals from all the participating organizations who were patient and supportive in providing input, answering questions, and verifying data entries throughout the data collection process. Without their support, this analysis would not be possible. Among these we would like to thank: Karen Colin de Verdière (Agence Française de Développement); Rodrigo Tosta (Amazon Fund); Megan MacDowell and Peter Oesterling (Andes Amazon Fund); Antoon Van Broeckhoven (Belgium); Amanda Paulson (Bobolink Foundation); Cecilia Guerra (CAF); Diana Munoz (Canadian Embassy in Bogota); Daniela Pinto (Charles Stewart Mott Foundation); Vedantha Kumar (Children’s Investment Fund Foundation); Laura Wood and Luciana Honigman (Conservation International); Jack Tordoff (Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund); Lorena Serrano (Denmark); Florian Theus (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit - GIZ); Dan Sarles (Eaglemere Foundation); Paulo Vicente Cruz (Ford Foundation); Marina Kvashnina (Forest Carbon Partnership Facility); Livia King (Full Circle Foundation); Juliana Strobel (Fundación Avina); Marcia Soares and Nathalia Cipoleta (Fundo Vale); Svenja Kühnle (Germany Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety); Pascal Martinez and Teayeon Kim (Global Environmental Facility - GEF); Simon Siantidis (Good Energies Foundation); Adilene Moreno (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation - GBMF); Benjamin Singer and Tara Patterson (Green Climate Fund – GCF); Luma Teixeira Dias and Renata Piazzon (Instituto Arapyaú); Barbara Zimmerman (International Conservation Fund of Canada); Adam Mehl and Yves Lesenfants (Inter-American Development Bank - IDB); Klaus Koehnlein (KFW); Ashley Valle and Malia Wilson (Land Innovation Fund); Ivana Fertziger (Margaret A. Cargill Foundation); Justine van den Bergh (Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Nathalie Gonçalves Aurélio (Netherlands Embassy in Brasilia); Aura Robayo Castañeda (Norwegian Embassy in Bogota); Hex Picot and Yuting Xiang (Oak Foundation); Iago Hairon (Open Society Foundation); Walt Reid and Kristine Ashfield (Packard Foundation); Aaliya Ahmed (Quadrature Climate Foundation); James Lewis and David Dellatore (Rainforest Trust); Joaquin Carrizosa (Re:wild); Jess McDonald (Sequoia Climate Foundation); Tanya Pham (Skoll Foundation); Karin Metell and Kim Andersson (Sweden); Rosemary Hitchens (Swift Foundation); Gabriel Cárdenas Barrera (Swiss Embassy in Bogota); Frineia Rezende (The Nature Conservancy); Meg Cushing (Tinker Foundation); Alex Berland, Estefania Liehr, Lotte Blair and Katherine Read (United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office); Tom Rhodes, Catherine Hamlin, Katia Villanueva, Elizabeth Cushion and Jessica Rosen (US Agency for International Development); Jenny Martinez (US Fish and Wildlife Service); Andrea von der Ohe (US Forest Service); Najeeb Kahn (World Bank); Hector Maciel, Sandra Valenzuela and Cristiano Cegana (World Wildlife Fund); Chris Killingsworth (Wyss Foundation).
Amy Juelsgaard
Ana Maria Gonzalez Velosa – Senior Environmental Specialist, World Bank
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The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL Program), is an Impact Program funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) with the objective to improve integrated landscape management and ecosystem conservation in priority areas of the Amazon in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname. It aims to strengthen management effectiveness of more than 87 million hectares of protected areas, facilitate the creation/expansion of 4.4 million hectares of protected areas, promote sustainable practices on 3.7 million hectares, restore 48,500 hectares of forests, and directly benefit 60,079 people. The ASL national projects are led by the countries’ Ministries of Environment and are being executed collaboratively between public and private entities. The World Bank (lead agency), WWF, CAF, FAO, UNIDO, IFAD, and UNDP act as GEF Implementing Agencies providing support and supervision. A regional coordination project, implemented by the World Bank, provides technical assistance and knowledge management opportunities to the participant countries.
ASL Coordinator
Ana Maria Gonzalez Velosa asl-info@worldbank.org
ASL website:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/amazon-sustainable-landscapes-program
ASL Community of Practice:
https://collaboration.worldbank.org/content/sites/collaboration-for-development/en/groups/amazon-sustainable-landscapes-program-cop.html