Partners

Strategic and institutional partners

IUCN initiatives in Asia are developed in close consultation with our strategic partners such as donor agencies, international organisations, government agencies, non-government organisations, academia and private sector, as well as community-based organisations at the grassroots level. In the past two years we have worked with the following strategic partners in Asia:

Multilateral

• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Programme, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (BOBLME)
• European Union (EU)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Nepal and Lao PDR
• Global Environment Facility (GEF) Ramsar Secretariat
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bangladesh and Pakistan
• World Bank, Bangladesh

Bilateral

• Bundesministerium fur wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
• Bundesministerium fur Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU)
• Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Bangladesh and Pakistan
• Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Canada
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
• Netherlands - Directorate General for International Cooperation
• Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
• UK Department for International Development (UKAID)
• US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
• Governments (Asia Region) Central Environmental Authority, Sri Lanka (CEA)
• Coastal Development Authority, Government of Sindh, Pakistan
• Environmental Protection Department, Government of Punjab, Pakistan
• Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
• Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka
• Ministry of Environment, Japan
• Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea
• Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Sri Lanka
• Overseas Environmental Cooperation Centre, Japan

Non-governmental organisations

• CARE Bangladesh
• Flora and Fauna International (FFI)
• Myanmar Environmental Rehabilitation-conservation Network (MERN)
• Oxfam Novib
• WWF Netherlands

Private sector

• Danone
• Elengy Terminal Pakistan Limited
• Holcim Ltd
• HSBC Sri Lanka
• Marriott International, Inc.
• Minh Phu Seafood Corporation
• Tata Steel Limited
• The Dhamra Port Company Limited
• The PTT Exploration and Production Company Limited (PTTEP)
• Toyota Motor Corporation Foundation
• Elion Foundation
• Total Foundation
• INSEE

For more information on private sector engagement, please visit the Business and Biodiversity page. 

Private foundations

• Skoll Global Threats Fund
• The J.M. Kaplan Fund
• Arcus Foundation
• Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund (KNCF)

Others

• ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
• Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft fur lnternationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
• IUCN Netherlands Committee
• Smithsonian Institution
• South-Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP)
• Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS)