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Tutorial - Sustainable finance for protected areas

This tutorial explores the range of sustainable finance solutions available to support Protected and Conserved Areas (PCAs) using practice guidance from IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. Learners will gain a foundation in PCA finance, understand finance planning, and examine four Practice Guidelines for PCA finance. They will also explore how to develop a comprehensive financing strategy for a fictional park, putting their new knowledge into practice.

Tutorials
Start : 2026-02-16 Status : Ongoing

Tutorial Syllabus

Module 1: How can finance help my protected area?

1.1 Protected Area Finance Overview
  • Introduction
  • Ecosystem Services
  • The Case for Protected Areas Finance
1.2 Fundamentals of Protected Area Finance
  • Challenges of PA finance
  • Creating enabling environments for PA finance
  • Implementation Guidance - The Good Practice Guidelines
  • Taxonomy of finance solutions

Module 2: Is there a process to develop finance options? (Finance Strategy & Planning)

1.1 Finance Strategy & Planning Overview
  • Introduction
  • Finance Planning Benefits
2.2 Key Elements and Steps
  • Finance Planning Process
  • Preparing our Park for Business Planning

Module 3: What is the financing context, issues, and needs? (Situation Assessment)

3.1 Understanding Situation Assessments
  • Introduction
  • What is the purpose of situation assessments?
  • Conducting a situation assessment
3.2 Situation Assessments in Practice
  • Understanding key stakeholders for our park
  • Grounding the finance plan in the vision and goals of the park

Module 4: How should we define our finance objectives?

4.1 Establishing Finance Needs and Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Finance needs assessment
  • Defining the park's activities and finance needs
4.2 Good Practice Guideline A - Optimize Resource Efficiencies
  • Introduction
  • What is Guideline A?
  • Reducing inefficiencies in our park
4.3 Good Practice Guideline B - Discourage Harmful Actions
  • What is Guideline B?
  • Reducing beach-related threats in the park

Module 5: What finance solutions are best for my conservation context? (Portfolio of Finance Solutions)

5.1 Understanding Finance Solutions Portfolio Development
  • Introduction
5.2 Good Practice Guideline C - Incentivizing Positive Actions
  • What is Guideline C?
  • Positive behavior change in the park
5.3 Good Practice Guideline D - Increase Capital for Conservation
  • What is Guideline D?
5.4 Developing a Finance Solutions Portfolio
  • How are finance solutions portfolios developed?
  • Developing a finance portfolio for our park

Module 6: What are the next steps? (Presentation, Implementation and Adaptive Management)

6.1 Presenting your Finance Plan
  • Introduction
  • Key presentation features
  • Presenting our park’s business plan

6.2 Adaptive Management

  • Living finance plans
  • Adaptive management in our park over time
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