Posted on_ November, _
LOCATION: Africa
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What we do
We are an independent conservation organisation, striving to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife. From individuals and communities to business and government, we are part of a growing coalition calling on world leaders to set nature on the path to recovery by 2030. Together, we seek to protect and restore natural habitats, stop the mass extinction of wildlife, and make the way we produce and consume sustainable.
Context and Justification:
Influencing policy for effective change in the manner humans interact with nature is an important focus of WWF work especially in Africa. In Africa, we have seen in the last decades an evolution in the policy and partnership landscape and increasingly Africa at different global fora going in as a block and not as individual countries. Equally we have seen emerged policy agendas like the Kunming - Global Biodiversity Framework, AU 2063 Agenda on the Africa we Want, the African Development Bank’s new Ten-year Strategy (2024 - 2033), the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals, but also emergence of new policy issues like marine plastic, nature-based solutions to climate change, energy transition, deep sea mining, etc. WWF clearly recognizes these trends and engages in numerous partnerships and cooperative arrangements and understand that good partnerships provide strong opportunities for leveraging to influence policies to better reflect sustainable development needs.




In a bid to ensure Africa’s development is sustainable and considering the growing role of African institutions in the global policy and decision-making space, WWF has forged partnership with key pan-African and regional institutions, both formal or informal. Some of the key institutions include the African Development Bank, the African Union Commission, the African Union Development Agency, the regional economic communities (SADC, ECCAS and EAC), as well working relationship with ECOWAS, UNEP and UNECA. After many years of engaging with these institutions, it is critical for WWF to look back at the effectiveness of these partnerships and collaborations and assess what impact they have been able to have on the different policy and institutional level processes as well as financial planning and programming at, integral, regional and sub-regional levels and the extent these outcomes have cascaded to the national level.
Overall Goal:
Undertake an assessment of the performance of WWF partnership with African institutional partners and how such partnerships have contributed towards meeting the WWF mission on the continent.
Specific Objectives:
Assess the extent to which WWF’s partnership with institutional partners in Africa has contributed to changing their perception, influencing their goals, and mission towards issues related to conservation and environmental protection i.e. determine the value and validity of the partnership approach that contributes towards effectively and efficiently meeting the partnership’s objectives. What has been WWF’s added value?




Based on information from the different partners and guided by the WWF’s mission and strategies in Africa, identify potential redundancies and gaps in current WWF institutional partnerships, including how WWF can re-purpose itself to become a go-to-organization in Africa in terms of policy framing and implementation.
Development of a framework and roadmap/action plan for WWF’s future partnerships strategy in Africa.
Scope of Work:
Through a review of partnership agreements and other documentation, as well as interviews, questionnaires and other tools, assess the impact of WWF’s current institutional partnerships in Africa which will include the following:
The African Development Bank
The African Union
The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
The East Africa Community (EAC)
The Economic Community of Central Africa States (ECCAS)
The Southern African Development Community (SADC)
The Central Africa Forest Commission (COMIFAC)
Review potential institutional partners that are currently not in WWF’s WWF’s partnerships portfolio (at regional or sub-regional levels) but are that are increasingly becoming major players in the environment and development space. This will include but not limited to the following:
The regional development banks (Development Bank of Southern Africa, the East Africa Development Bank, the Central Africa Development Bank, etc.)
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
The Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD)
A quick review of the WWF - AfDB Partnership (case study with a focus on the current model of collaboration, lessons learnt and what are the new opportunities to enhance this partnership.Expected deliverab

📌 Assessing The Impact of Wwf Institutional (África)
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