We manage funding for innovative projects committed to sustainable development.
We are the bridge connecting international cooperants, local institutions, communities, and MSMEs. Our track record has earned us the support of various international organizations that believe in our work of supporting and helping innovative and sustainable solutions in every corner of the country.
We look for sustainable solutions and innovative projects that help meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here are some of the projects we manage:
INNOVA-VERDE is an ideas competition jointly funded by the European Union and the German government for the purpose of financing innovative projects that contribute to mitigating carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions in the Costa Rican livestock sector.
At least 20 innovative ideas will be selected to receive grants for up to a total of 300,000 euros. The competition is being run by Fundecooperación para el Desarrollo Sostenible, coordinated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, co-funded by the European Union, German Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection, and International Climate Initiative (IKI), and implemented by GIZ Central America, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), CRUSA Foundation, and UNDP CR.
The importance of this initiative lies in its ability to drive and speed up sustainable solutions in the country’s livestock sector. The idea is to maintain the sector’s efficiency and profitability while at the same time reducing its environmental impact and fortifying its capacity to adapt to climate change.
The results of the Adapta2+ program show the need for continued support for small agricultural producers, fishers, and Indigenous peoples, particularly women and children in their local markets, to build even greater resilience and ensure food security for the sectors most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
This is why the Scale-up program, funded by the Adaptation Fund, was conceived. Building on the lessons learned from Adapta2+, it introduces new challenges through innovation and ventures aimed at solving different problems and building capacities for dealing with the impacts of climate change.
Project Name: Adapta2+ Scale-up program “Building the Resilience of Vulnerable Populations in Costa Rica through the Scale-up of Adapta2+”.
Goal: Boost the resilience of vulnerable populations in Costa Rica, particularly women, by expanding adaptation actions and strengthening the climate finance, value chains, and community-based organizations of food systems.
First Component
Enhanced adaptative capacity of food systems and the communities involved in territorial development, with a gender perspective
Second Component
Stronger access to climate financing for nature-based adaptation investment.
Third Component
Capacity building and knowledge sharing for local, national, and regional decision-making.
Projects being developed within the framework of the Scale-up program include Tu-MoDeLo (Tourism – Local Development Engine), an initiative that identifies market opportunities in the tourism sector for sustainable agricultural and fishery products adapted to climate change.
The project “Public Innovation Laboratory with a Territorial Approach to Strengthen Environmental and Climate Action through the Circular Economy” seeks to support and foster, from a territorial and ecosystemic perspective, public policy that promotes strengthening of the circular economy, driving institutional coordination among the different public sector, civil society, and private sector levels. The project is being jointly implemented by Fundecooperación para el Desarrollo Sostenible and the Spanish Cooperation Training Center in Antigua (CFCE Antigua).
This initiative builds capacity to integrate climate action into regional and municipal planning in the country’s regions, beginning with a pilot program in 20 cantons for effective integration of adaptation actions into planning mechanisms. It is being extended with climate risk assessments, methodological guides and training to identify adaptation needs in the remaining 62 cantons and includes adaptation financing strategies and a monitoring and evaluation mechanism.
The idea of this initiative is to share experiences, information, and products (videos, guides, standards, articles, infographics, etc.) generated by the Adapta2+ program. The goal of sharing this Adapta2+ knowledge is to promote good practices and facilitate scalability of climate change adaptation in the agricultural, water resources, and coastal sectors.
Tu-MoDeLo (Tourism – Local Development Driver) is an initiative that identifies market opportunities in the tourism sector for sustainable agricultural and fishery products adapted to climate change. At present it is being developed in the country’s northern zone and Guanacaste.
The initiative is the fruit of a public-private partnering of Fundecooperación, the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT), and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), together with local tourism associations, institutions, and private sector partners. Together, they demonstrate that Costa Rica’s tourism industry is a driver of local well-being in agricultural communities by generating jobs and economic growth, thereby improving the lives of communities vulnerable to climate change.
Key activities of the project include:
Mapping tourism regions with the potential for becoming local markets
Selecting value chains and taking inventory of current suppliers
Building business capacities of producers
Facilitating access to financial resources.
Incentivizing demand for local, sustainable products among tourism enterprises and signing sustainable sourcing commitments.
Engaging tourists to generate demand.
More information about Tu-MoDeLo
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ADAPTA2 is a program funded by the United Nations Adaptation Fund to support adaptation programs in developing countries that are vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.
The goal of the initiative is to reduce the vulnerability of communities to the impact of climate change and enhance resilience in the following sectors that have been classified as critical: agriculture, water resources and coastal areas, and capacity-building.
Adapta2+ has supported more than 40 national initiatives expecting to impact 483 farming families and benefitting more than 50 water operators that provide water to more than 50,000 people in different communities around the country, so that they can adapt to climate change.
This program is executed by Fundecooperación, as the implementing entity, with the support of the Office of Climate Change in the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG).
Adapta2+ in Agriculture
The Adapta2+ program has an impact on the agricultural sector because of its efforts to improve the technical and productive conditions of those benefitting from climate change adaptation actions such as irrigation, fodder, genetic improvement, and the use of slurry, worm composters and biodigesters for biofertilizers.
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Completed Projects 1994-2023
Fondo de Recuperación Urbana Verde
The program was carried out between 2007 and 2012, with a budget of $13 million; it was executed by Fundecooperación as Secretariat and financed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It consisted of a successful model of cooperation between Costa Rica in Central America, Benin in West Africa and Bhutan in South Asia, which resulted in 43 multilateral projects to develop innovative solutions to common challenges in the four interconnected pillars of sustainable development: economic development, social development, environmental protection and gender equity.
About the Green and Biodiverse Urban Recovery Fund
The project “Green and Biodiverse Urban Recovery Fund – FRUV” seeks to be a mechanism to support Non-Governmental Organizations, Associations, Grassroots Groups and MSMEs for the implementation of innovative green initiatives that are selected from the receipt of project profiles submitted through an open call. In this way, the beneficiaries contribute with their innovation to a greener and more biodiverse city that contributes to the economic recovery of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this way, one of the fundamental criteria for selecting the initiatives that obtained co-financing is that they have a positive environmental component and allow their actions to contribute to the National Biodiversity Strategy 2016 – 2025, the country’s National Decarbonization Plan and the National Adaptation Policy. Likewise, to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Visión de Primera Línea
VPL 2019 is a project of the Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Risk Reduction (GNDR), funded by the European Union, which aims to enhance inclusion and collaboration between governments, people at risk, and civil society on policies and practices to reduce risk and strengthen community resilience.
Microfinanzas para la Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas
Microfinancing for ecosystem-based adaptation, known as MEbA, offers solutions that enable microfinance institutions (MFIs) and their customers to build capacities to manage climate risks and implement ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) alternatives.
The project’s goal is to benefit more than 23 micro-financers worldwide, with Fundecooperación coordination, UN Environment implementation, and financing from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).
Because of its sustainability approach, Fundecooperación has been selected to be a part of this initiative, the idea being to build the adaptive capacity of rural communities and especially agricultural producers while it develops its credit program with innovative financial services and products for dealing with climate change.
MEbA implementation strengthens Fundecooperación’s Customized Credit Program by adding new, innovative financial products that improve the way climate change is addressed.
Through the direction and management of these international climate action programs and capacity-building with the sharing of success stories, lessons learned and knowledge manuals, Fundecooperación helps Costa Rican producers and their families learn how to carry out adaptation and mitigation actions and identify the necessary and effective tools.
Fondo Ciudad Verde
The Green City Fund (FCV) was created thanks to an alliance between the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE), the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), Fundecooperación para el Desarrollo Sostenible and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ). FCV promotes “greening” initiatives within the Interurban Biological Corridors (CBI) Rio Torres Biosphere Reserve and Rio Maria Aguilar, such as reforestation, rehabilitation of green spaces, tourism, recreation, agriculture and urban gardening, and green architecture, among others. The aim is to value, conserve and make use of the benefits of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the city.
FCV is implemented under two financing modalities:
- Non-reimbursable and competitive
- Refundable with customized credit conditions, applicable with special attention to the territories:
- Within the Interurban Biological Corridors of the Torres River Biosphere Reserve and the Maria Aguilar River.
- Within or around the other Interurban Biological Corridors in the Central Conservation Area: Garcimuñoz; Cobric Surac; Pará-Toyopán; Achiote.
- Other territories interested in interventions for a greener city.
Both modalities are subject to FCV guidelines.
ICAT Iniciativa para la Transparencia
Improve transparency in climate data of mitigation actions in the National Climate Change Metrics System. Completes development of guidelines for analysis of sustainable development and transformational change impacts of mitigation actions. Generates information for decision making and policy design based on accurate and timely data.
Iniciativa de Fortalecimiento de Capacidades para la Transparencia-CBIT y Paquete Reforzado para la Acción Climática-CAEP
Supports the development and strengthening of climate data quality management tools and national capacities to meet the reporting requirements of the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework (EIF) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in order to track and demonstrate compliance with its climate targets.
Partners for Review
Creates an online multi-stakeholder reporting mechanism to make visible the contributions of non-state parties signatories to the National Pact for the Advancement of Sustainable Development Goals, which seeks to make the 2030 Agenda a country commitment, in a way that facilitates access, monitoring and accountability of the SDGs through alternative data.
Fortalecimiento de Capacidades en Porcicultores de Costa Rica
The “Virtual Field Days” were aimed at transferring knowledge among producers through success stories and lessons learned to implement sustainable practices in their production systems. Topics addressed included: nutrition, waste management, breeding techniques, reproduction, biosecurity, management of production records and costs, legal aspects and permits for the sustainable development of production activities.
Program for South-South Cooperation (PSC) between Benin (Africa), Bhutan (Asia) and Costa Rica (Central America)
Carried out between 2007 and 2012 with a budget of $13 million, the program was implemented by Fundecooperación, as Secretariat, and funded by the Netherlands. It consisted of a successful model of cooperation between Costa Rica in Central America, Benin in West Africa, and Bhutan in South Asia that led to 43 multilateral projects for developing innovative solutions to common challenges of the four interconnected pillars of sustainable development: economic development, social development, environmental protection, and gender equality.
Triangular Cooperation between Costa Rica, Morocco and Germany
In 2013, Costa Rica, Morocco and Germany launched a cooperation project to strengthen management and sustainable use of forests, protected areas and watersheds in the context of climate change, creating joint actions through knowledge-sharing among the three countries.
This project is considered an example, nationally and internationally, for its concrete results, confirming the positive impact of south-south and triangular cooperation.
Proyecto de Gestión Integrada del Recurso HídricoIntegrated Water Resource Management Project
The goal of this project was to promote integrated management and conservation of water resources in the Térraba-Sierpe National Wetland and Grecia areas through experience-sharing, social participation, and the strengthening of ASADAs (local water management associations) and other local organizations.
Developed with CRUSA funding, the project was implemented by Fundecooperación in collaboration with the University of Costa Rica.
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