The Verde Ventures Fund (VV), an enterprise investment fund for biodiversity protection at Conservation International Foundation (CI), with the support of Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial (FFEM), is seeking to engage a service provider to convene and facilitate a Conservation Investors workshop in Nairobi, Kenya.
CI’s Verde Ventures Fund invests directly in SMEs by providing debt financing to businesses that benefit healthy ecosystems and human well-being, such as businesses in the sectors of alternative energy, agroforestry, ecotourism, sustainable harvest of wild products and marine and fisheries initiatives. VV’s investments enable such business partners to advance the important role of small business in conservation and responsible development. They employ local people in jobs that give them and their communities a personal and economic stake in safeguarding their local natural resources.
CI intends to convene a Conservation Investors workshop in Kenya in October 2016. The objectives of the workshops are:
Provide an platform for CI and its investees to share their experience running the Verde Ventures invested businesses
Provide a platform for other conservation investors to share their experiences
Be a peer exchange, learning and co-creation forum
Networking and business linkages
The workshop will yield into continued opportunities for interaction and information exchange amongst Conservation Investment players
The workshop aims at bringing together key decision makers drawn from private sector, development sector and relevant government institutions that share the ambition of transforming SMEs into environmentally sustainable business entities. We expect participation from approximately 50 institutions.
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HOW TO APPLY:
Interested parties are requested to submit an Expression of Interest containing both technical and financial aspects to Amos Thiongo (athiongo@conservation.org) by the close of business September 10, 2016. Detailed Terms of Reference are available upon request.