GWP involves multi-stakeholder collaboration at national, sub-national and local scales, with specific attention paid to the engagement of indigenous communities and women; strengthened national leadership and coordination of the multi-agency response to wildlife crime; evidence-driven conservation management approaches; testing and implementation of innovative technologies and best practices that enhance capacity for cost-effective prevention and management of wildlife crime; and enterprise development, including the establishment of tourism concession models and sustainable livelihoods that enable rural communities to gain greater benefits from wildlife conservation. The project aims to directly benefit 45,000 people, of whom 2020 (47%) are women.

To protect an umbrella species such as a tiger, conservation efforts call for a holistic approach such as integrated landscape management, which requires a long-term horizon planning and appropriate allocation of resources to be able to deliver permanent results at scale. An assessment on the Malaysia Biodiversity Financing Needs for 2018-2025 estimates that  ≈US$530mon average per year is needed in order to fund biodiversity related initiatives to achieve the national biodiversity targets. An estimated $297m is secured annually from various sources, with public funds as the primary source (67%), leaving ≈$233m of biodiversity gap annually. Unlocking private financing for large-scale nature conservation efforts is therefore one of the opportunities that needs to be tapped on. Many existing financing mechanisms such as wildlife bonds, debt for nature swaps, and impact funds, although important, need to be complemented with new financing approaches to bridge the gaps these instruments are not able to meet.