The mentoring project between the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund – Funbio (mentor) and the BioGuinea Foundation – FBG (mentee) aimed to share knowledge about evaluation and design of financial mechanisms – FMs. It is a Funbio’s expertise and a theme with rare capacity-building opportunities, since the literature on the subject is very limited and there are few environments where there are training on these mechanisms. At the same time, it was a relevant need of the FBG, because it is a fundamental knowledge to respond to the design of projects and programs according to local context and to institutional and funder’s expectations. There was, therefore, an opportunity for the exchange of experience between Funbio and FBG, which represented the continuity of a partnership started in 2013.
The project developed a work plan with an initial phase of face-to-face alignment on FMs, on innovation in financing and on mapping, analysis and prioritization of funding sources. Then we worked together on a continuous activate of preparation (planning) of the training, including the adaptation to the local context, the development of the support material and the creation of a “virtual library”.
