In late December professionals from the International Cooperation Depository Fund (Sparkasse) organized and executed a two-day, interactive training for two of ECF’s beneficiary communities in Azerbaijan; Gonaghkend Tabiat Dostlari and Khinalig Tabiat Dostlari communities. Representatives from both communities attended seminars and workshops from December 20-21, 2018 discussing basic financial decision making related to savings strategies, family cash flow and investments as

The final months of 2018 were busy and eventful for ECF Georgia. On December 14th a signing ceremony was held at Hotel Courtyard Marriott in Tbilisi to celebrate and finalize the signing of two conservation agreements. Welcome speeches were delivered by multiple high-profile guests. The Georgian Minister of Environment Protection and Agriculture, the Head of Development Cooperation from the South Caucasus/German Embassy, the Regional Governor of Satmtskhe-Javakheti Region and

On December 9, 2018 the village communities of Qalayhudat, Khinalig, Hapit and Alik, gathered in the Guba region of Azerbaijan to participate in a presentation and awards meeting. This meeting was, in part, a celebration of the successful implementation of ECF’s Financial Participatory Approach (FPA) tool as a framework for nature conservation in the area. Sixteen representatives from the four participating villages attended the meeting. Malak Shukurova, the National Coordina

Armenia’s ECF team is excited to announce that WWF Armenia's Save the Earthbeat visual campaign was announced as a winner in the Yerevan Advertising Festival in the category of Best Social Advertisement of 2018 in Armenia. The Save the Earthbeat campaign was developed in the with the assistance and guidance of the ECF project. The campaign’s catchy graphic and animation show a pulsing heart beat on a heart monitor, morphing into images of animals that the nature conservation