Partners
Contractual Partner
AUSTRIAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (ADA) GmbH: ADA is the operational unit of Austrian Development Cooperation. On behalf of the Federal Government, it plans, finances, and supports development programs and projects in the countries of Africa, Asia, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. ADA has provided a EUR 200,000 Business Partnership Grant (with matching co-funding from project leads) to support Phase One of SLLEI.
Implementing Partners
CIFOR-ICRAF: Two of the world’s leading organizations focused on forestry and agroforestry, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF), merged in 2019 to provide innovative solutions to scale up investment in sustainable development and address global challenges. Together, CIFOR-ICRAF delivers actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity, and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives. CIFOR-ICRAF is a specialized, technical-support agency that provides co-funding by way of technical input services to this SLLEI Phase 1 donor-supported—through the Austrian Development Agency--initiative. As an Executing Entity to the project’s grant award, CIFOR-ICRAF provides the needed technical backstopping for implementing and running the fund, providing decision support with data and evidence, and supporting the overall program impact assessments. CIFOR’s operations are EU 7-pillars assessed.
https://worldagroforestry.org/
https://www.cifor.org/our-work/cifor-icraf-merger-faq/
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Germany gGmbH is a not-for-profit, limited-liability company under German law that embodies CIFOR-ICRAF’s activities in Europe. CIFOR Germany provides expertise and support to SLLEI. The participating individual experts—based in Bonn, Germany—have long-term experience with the design and implementation of integrated land management approaches encompassing tree plantations, agroforestry, and sustainable management of natural forests, including for bioenergy purposes, in Latin America, Asia and Africa, analyses of markets and climate effects, and the assessment of their socio-economic and environmental viability and impacts. They also advise on project management and operations.
https://www.cifor.org/locations/germany/
Backstopped by science, evidence and context, Resilient Landscapes is a new CIFOR-ICRAF venture created to spur large-scale impact investment in nature-based solutions to address our planet’s most urgent existential crises. Acting as a bridge between the public and private sectors, it translates robust science and research into practical business solutions and green economy investment opportunities ranging from sustainable supply chains to impactful carbon offsets. It does this in collaboration with different public, private and civil society actors through contractual or partnership agreements across multiple scales (global, regional, local).
https://resilient-landscapes.org/
Arundo BioEnergy is a biotechnology company using a worldwide patented, state of the art micro-propagation technology, enabling the production of genetically stable, high quality, virus-free Arundo plantlet on an industrial scale. By possessing different ecotypes of Arundo suited for a wide range of climate conditions like continental, mediterranean, subtropical, tropical, semi-arid, the energy crop can be cultivated on a variety of climates. Since Arundo has a high tolerance to poor ecological conditions, the goal is to utilize it on marginal lands and produce low-cost and high-yield biomass for the bioenergy industry. A top priority is to make biogas production a more financially competitive energy source by using feedstock that is more available, cheap and reliable. Arundo proved to have 1.5 times higher biogas yield compared to corn and 3 times more than triticale, whilst the cost of production is 50% lower.
Partners
There are a variety of key Serbian and international partners with both interest in and contribution to the project so far.
Sponsors
