This is the third of 5 activities that formed the Private Finance Learning Challenge, hosted by the UN FAO’s Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism team and the Landscape Finance Lab, which ran from Feb-March 2023.

Marco Boscolo, one of the lead authors of FAO’s guide to developing bankable business plans and the new e-learning course it inspired, introduces participants to bankable business plans and how they can be used as compelling investment proposals.

You will be guided through a typical process of business plan development, including the 10 key components of any good plan.

Speakers

Marco Boscolo, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation

Marco Boscolo is a Forestry Officer in the Forest Governance and Economics team at FAO. His work focuses on inclusive and sustainable forest value chains, access to finance, the economics of ecosystem restoration, and community concessions as conservation and development instruments. He has worked extensively on the economics of natural resource management and policy in the Global South, including on the valuation of ecosystem services of tropical forests. Between 2016 and 2017 he managed a project in Bangladesh which produced the first Country Investment Plan on environment, forestry and climate change. Prior to joining FAO in 2007, he was a research fellow at the Center for International Development of Harvard University. He holds a PhD in forest resources economics and co-authored over 60 forest-related publications.