Our Partners
Our partners offer unique perspectives and share a common desire to implement conservation projects safeguarding wildlife and biodiversity, protecting and restoring habitats, and generating economic opportunities and social benefits for surrounding communities who are necessarily the long-term stewards of local natural resources.
"It’s the experience that comes from those NGOs and volunteers that are assisting in this wider effort to come up with long-term solutions that will protect species far into the future."
In PictureChairman Ed Royce, Founding Co-Chair of the U.S. Congressional International Conservation Caucus.
Partnership Spotlights
Partnering with the GEF
Since 2011, the ICCF Group has filled a niche for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), achieving policy results by building political will and providing on-the-ground solutions through its legislative caucus model. The ICCF Group has successfully served as a tool for GEF to achieve policy successes over the past decade and is advancing to support efforts toward policy coherence on a larger scale.
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In PictureCarlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), addresses participants of the ICCF Group's policymaker conference in Costa Rica (February 17-21, 2022).
The Africa Keystone Protected Area Partnership
The Africa Keystone Protected Area Partnership was launched by five African heads of state, with the support of the Rob Walton Foundation, at an ICCF reception in September, 2025. This bold new partnership is bringing together African governments, communities, NGOs, and funders to protect 162 of Africa’s most irreplaceable protected areas by 2035. The partnership responds to calls by African leaders, such as the Maputo Declaration on the Miombo Forest, to invest in African-led conservation.
The Miombo Initiative
Eleven African governments signed the Maputo Declaration on the Miombo Forest to launch the Miombo Initiative, with the support of the ICCF Group. As one of the largest conservation and restoration projects in the world, the Miombo Initiative mobilizes finance to restore, sustainably govern, and advance nature-aligned development in the 1.9 million km2 miombo woodlands ecosystem. This irreplaceable landscape supports 300 million livelihoods and conserves one of Africa’s largest reserves of natural capital, carbon, and biodiversity. However, rapid deforestation is endangering the miombo woodland’s long-term ability to support Africa’s growing population and economy.
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