USAID Biodiversity Understanding in Infrastructure and Landscape Development (BUILD) Fact Sheet

USAID’s support to the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) through the BUILD program aims to improve policy, regulatory, and planning approaches to avoid or reduce negative impacts of infrastructure development on biodiversity. CSF applies economic tools for conservation results and creates lasting human capacity for infrastructure analysis with the goal of improving selection, design, and mitigation of key projects in focus regions including Africa’s Albertine Rift, South America’s Andes and Amazon Basin, and Asia’s Himalayas. The program will strengthen civil society by improving the capacity of governments, citizens, and the private sector to work together to balance expanding infrastructure with conservation.