Costa Rica
FONAFIFO - National Fund for Forestry Financing
As a public entity founded in 1996, the National Forestry Financing Fund dedicates its efforts to financing small and medium producers of forestry goods and services, through the management and administration of resources of national and international origin (distributed among patrimonial and extinguishable funds). Fonafifo seeks to support the development of the forestry sector in Costa Rica through the direct execution of projects, the channeling of economic incentives, the establishment of public-private partnerships and the management of international cooperation agreements in forestry matters. Fonafifo focuses its operation on 3 strategic lines defined from the financing, sustainability and institutional management of the forestry sector, which is reflected in its executions on biological corridors, basins, private lands in protected wildlife areas, indigenous territories, among others.