Deadline: 28 February 2019
The J.R.S. Biodiversity Foundation has announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) for multi-year projects focused upon biodiversity data, knowledge and information services related to freshwater biodiversity and pollinator biodiversity.
The Foundation focuses our grantmaking in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. JRS may make exceptions to this policy for projects with the potential for exceptional impact upon biodiversity informatics capacity development, highly transferrable models or technologies, or close partnerships of data providers and data users.
Project Proposals
- Freshwater Biodiversity Scope
- Freshwater ecosystems are under threat from expanding agriculture, human settlement, extractive industries, and from climate change. The biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems is critical for ecosystem services for human well‐being and livelihoods.
- JRS seeks projects that increase the access to and use of biodiversity information relating to freshwater biodiversity assessment and the conservation of freshwater ecosystem services in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Botswana, Malawi, and South Africa.
- Pollinator Biodiversity Scope
- Pollination is one of the most important ecosystem services supporting human life and livelihoods as well as natural biodiversity and primary productivity.
- Successful proposals will address challenges facing pollinator conservation in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Botswana, Malawi, and South Africa. Challenges to creating access to pollinators data are many and include inadequate expertise, insufficient data on pollinator status and on pollinator‐plant interactions, few options to mitigate risks to pollinators, lack of standard field methods and data standards, and lack of economic evaluations of pollinator services.
Grant Information
The foundation will award about $2,100,000 among qualifying proposals by July 2019.
Eligibility Criteria
The following requirements will ensure that your proposal aligns with JRS strategy and will be considered for funding and act as an eligibility checklist.
- The biodiversity information system is at the center of the project, and there is a clear potential use of and future value to the data or tool.
- The end-users of the biodiversity information are clear, and they are directly involved in proposal development and project implementation.
- There are specific descriptions of hardware, software, data standards, and related technical tools, and their choice is justified.
- All primary data generated by the project will be available per the Open Access Data Policy and its terms for license, timeliness, standards, access, and compliance.
- The grant applicants are African or that African professionals and African institutions play significant and long-term roles in project design, implementation, and sustainability, and as recipients of funds for projects that originate outside of Africa.
- Training and capacity development are explicit aims of the project through long-term engagement with trainees, network building, and sharing of training resources.
- Outputs and outcomes have specific targets that are measurable and time-bound.
- Plans for outreach include efforts to secure future partners and funders.
- Budgets are justified in significant detail regarding cost assumptions, timing, and rationale.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit http://jrsbiodiversity.org/how-to-apply/current-opportunities/2019rfp/
