As part of Impact House by Grant Thornton The Netherlands (formerly Wolfs Company), Amílcar provides conservation finance advice to the public and private sectors, non-governmental organizations, Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) and protected area managers in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe. His background combines nature conservation, environmental economics, stakeholder engagement and strategic planning.
Amílcar is one of the lead authors of the latest 10-year review of CTFs and the 2020 expansion of the Practice Standards for CTFs of the Conservation Finance Alliance. He also developed the recently launched Practice Standards Assessment Tool 2023.
His experience with CTFs includes resource mobilization advice to The MedFund and Forever Costa Rica, governance assessments and strategic planning input to the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund, technical support for the regionalization of FSOA Benin, research on CTF-private sector partnerships across the RedLAC and CAFÉ member CTFs, the technical design of a potential CTF in Guatemala, an institutional assessment of CTFs in Belize, and ongoing strategic planning for MAR Fund and the Belize Fund for a Sustainable Future, among others.
At the protected area and landscape levels, he has led the assessment of financial gaps for Costa Rica to achieve 30% of marine protection, the development of a sustainable financing plan for the Gola Forest Landscape in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and the delivery of sustainable finance advice to a learning network of more than 30 protected areas in the Wider Caribbean.
His previous experience includes assistance to BIOFIN Belize to monitor national investments in biodiversity, economic valuation projects to support conservation initiatives in Belize, the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica and Ghana, and applied research to inform large-scale private conservation in Chile.
