PONT

As a conservation trust fund, PONT can provide long-term sustainable financing to the region's parks and local environmental actors. PONT is a small but effective team based locally in Tirana, Albania. They are supported remotely by the Nature Trust Alliance (NTA), who provides them with services. NTA is a collaboration between four Conservation Trust Funds aiming to reduce their operational costs and increase their outputs... PONT raises and manages funds for the allocation of grants verified by a rigorous monitoring and evaluation programme. PONT also leverages collaboration, political commitment, and funding towards the achievement of its mission; conservation of these magnificent transboundary conservation areas... PONT provides grants to the park authorities and to the civil society organisations working to conserve the transboundary conservation areas. Initially, PONT focused its funding on the Prespa lakes basin, including the six protected areas surrounding them.

Also known as: Prespa Ohrid Nature Trustand, Prespa-Ohrid Nature Trust

Primary location: Frankfurt Am Main Germany