The French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM)
The French Facility for Global Environment supports innovative projects in favour of the environment in developing countries. Created in 1994 by the French government following the first Earth Summit, it has already supported 333 projects in over 120 countries, two-thirds of them in Africa.
The FFEM works in partnership with public, private or civil society actors, both from the north and the south, with other donors and international organizations. The projects it finances generate local environmental, social and economic benefits. They help preserve biodiversity, climate, international waters, lands and the ozone layer and fight against chemical pollution. The particularity of the FFEM: to rely on pilot projects to learn from them and disseminate their innovations on a larger scale.
Founded in 2017, the Audemars-Watkins Foundation (FAW) is a private philanthropic foundation based in Geneva.
It supports projects for the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems, particularly oceans, wetlands and forests, as well as initiatives in education and capacity building.
The Foundation favours locally rooted projects, particularly in emerging countries, that take an integrated approach to preserving nature sustainably, with and for the benefit of local communities.