Consolidating Local Conservation Capacity in the Biosphere Reserves of Southeast Nicaragua and La Amistad in Panama

Sustain and expand upon the conservation gains achieved by the first phase of CEPF funding by working closely with local partners to build sufficient local organizational and technical capacity within key environmental organizations and partner alliances to allow for their self-sufficiency beyond CEPF funding, ensure greater financial sustainability of efforts started by CEPF and its partners, and promote greater collaboration and participatory decisionmaking on key development and conservation issues.