in peru development cooperation has been a key partner in creating the ministry of environment and developing a policy framework to promote public investment in biodiversity a number of initiatives that have become important enablers of mainstreaming such as the world bank waves programme the undp biofin and financing from the global environment facility gef have been implemented through continued development cooperation support there are also examples of rigorous screening systems being implemented to realise biodiversity cobenefits or at a minimum to identify and mitigate potential risks to biodiversity in development projects and programmes despite the progress achieved considerable potential remains for further support to mainstreaming efforts of partner countries and better biodiversity mainstreaming within development cooperation operations and portfolios