Biodiversity finance
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Estimated effort: 14 hours/all course requirements 
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Russian
Course type: Self-paced e-learning module
Partners: Do you need to make a stronger business case for biodiversity conservation? Do you want to become more skilled at developing financially sound and politically feasible solutions to conservation and development challenges? Do you need to know how to develop an effective biodiversity finance plan? Do you want access to more tools to assess the policy, institutional, and economic context for biodiversity finance, and to conduct a financial needs assessment to achieve a country’s biodiversity goals? We are offering a FREE self-paced course on Biodiversity Finance.
The content of this self-paced e-learning module was used during the Massive Open Online Course “Biodiversity Finance”, which took place on 15 April – 31 May 2019. View the course report below.
COURSE SUMMARY REPORT
Course highlights and outcomes:
- Gain an overview of key issues related to biodiversity finance
- Receive a certificate of completion from premier development institutions
- Take a deep dive into rich online lessons, webinars, assignments, and finance solutions
The course will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to biodiversity and sustainable development
- Introduction to biodiversity finance
- Biodiversity finance policy and institutional review
- Biodiversity expenditure review
- Biodiversity financial needs assessment
- Biodiversity finance plan
- Implementing the biodiversity finance plan
Learning objectives:
By the time the course is completed, you will be able to:
- Assess the policy, institutional, and economic context for biodiversity finance
- Conduct a financial needs assessment to achieve a country’s biodiversity goals
- Develop a biodiversity finance plan for most suitable finance solutions
Course completion requirements:
In order to receive the certificate of course completion, participants must complete:
- Six lessons
- Six weekly quizzes with a score of 60% or higher
- Final test
- Course survey
The course room also contains optional components, such as homework assignments, webinar recordings, biodiversity finance solutions, discussion forums and additional resources. These components are not required for receiving the course completion certificate.
In order for our site to issue the certificate, all the required activities must be marked with green checkmarks. Once each required activity in your course room contains a green checkmark, the certificate will be automatically generated and will become available for download in PDF format directly from this page.
Please note that starting on 1 July 2019 the forums of this course are not monitored by the Learning for Nature team. The forums are available for participants to interact with each other and exchange expertise.
Click “Enroll” to register and view the course content . If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Course Coordinator
+4060 enrolled Course Includes
- 7 Modules
- 40 Activities
- 7 Quizzes
- Course Certificate
How to get certificate
Hi Rajat,
After you complete all of the requirements you should see that all the sections have green checkmarks next to them. Then, please click the large blue “DOWNLOAD YOUR CERTIFICATE” button on this page. Please let me know if this works!
Hi All, Just starting now. Is there anyone else out there?
Thanks for the experience! Really helpful
World class content. I appreciate how the course was packaged. Looking forward to enroll for more.
Awesome learning experience
This was an awesome learning experience
Hello, I must say a Big Thank you for making this course available. I just completed the self-paced course, and thankfully I got my certificate. But, quite unfortunately the certificate carries only my First name omitting my last name. what can be done about that please?
Dear Samuel,
The reason the certificate only shows your first name is that you only put your first name in your profile. I have edited your profile to include your last name for you. Please redownload your certificate now. Thank you.
Others people get the certificate with authorized signature but I didn’t. Please give my certificate with authorized signature.
Thank you.
Dear Milan,
Thank you for your comment. The reason that others received certificates with signatures is they enrolled in the Massive Open Online course and completed their course deliverables within a tight time frame. Now that this is a self-paced course, the certificates do not contain signatures. Thank you for being part of the LfN community and let me know if you have any other questions.
Mam ,can you tell when I get certificate for this course ,as I completed all pre requisite requirements of this course.please help me asap
Hola, me gustaría que mi certificado estuviera completo con las firmas, les agradecería si pueden corregirlo gracias.
Gracias por su comentario, Leidy. La razón por la que otros recibieron certificados con firmas es que se inscribieron en el curso masivo abierto en línea y completaron sus productos del curso dentro de un marco de tiempo apretado. Ahora que este es un curso propio, los certificados no contienen firmas. Gracias por formar parte de la comunidad LfN y hágame saber si tiene alguna otra pregunta.
Others people get the certificate with authorized signature but I didn’t. Please give my certificate with authorized signature.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comment, Attilio. The reason that others received certificates with signatures is they enrolled in the Massive Open Online course and completed their course deliverables within a tight time frame. Now that this is a self-paced course, the certificates do not contain signatures. Thank you for being part of the LfN community and let me know if you have any other questions.