The Biodiversity Finance Initiative – Phase II (BIOFIN Nepal)

About this project

The Biodiversity Finance Initiative – BIOFIN – is a global programme that developed, piloted, and is continuously improving a methodology to measure existing biodiversity expenditure levels, assess future financial needs, and design comprehensive plans to use finance tools and solutions that increase financing, effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity management in up to 132 countries. BIOFIN’s first phase (2012-2018) enabled full assessments and initial implementation of finance plan elements in target countries. Significant scaling up of finance solutions is required in all countries to address the biodiversity finance challenge.BIOFIN’s second phase enables up to 132 countries to complete the design and implementation of priority finance solutions and allowed a further 11 countries to undertake the assessments and create the finance plan. At the central level, knowledge management platforms will be expanded and additional guidance produced for most valuable finance solutions.The project aims to achieve the above-mentioned objectives through the following pathways and results:• Output 1: Effective advocacy and partnership strategy informs biodiversity finance practices• Output 2: Knowledge management infrastructure in place to generate and share knowledge on biodiversity finance that capacitate practitioners and decision makers• Output 3: Enhanced data and market intelligence database and index for biodiversity finance practitioners• Output 4: Prioritised biodiversity…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 15Life on Land

Published by

United Nations Development Programme · Multilateral

Countries

Nepal

Sectors

Biodiversity

Funded by

Federal Office for the Environment-FOEN, UNDP Funding Windows, GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY, GOVERNMENT OF UNITED KINGDOM, NORWEGIAN AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

Implemented by

UNDP

Accountable

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Published by United Nations Development Programme to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-41114-PROJECT-01002724.

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