Future Conservationist Award: Rewarding Winners with up to US$12,500

Deadline: 28 November 2016

The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP), a training and capacity building programme, is seeking applications for its Future Conservationist Award to develop leadership capacity of early career conservationists who want to make a positive difference on the ground.

The CLP programme targets individuals from developing countries who are early in their conservation career and demonstrate leadership potential. Working as a partnership initiative with BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora International and the Wildlife Conservation Society, CLP builds the leadership capabilities of early-career conservation professionals working in places with limited capacity to address high-priority conservation issues.

Award Information

Winning teams will receive grants of up to $12,500 as well as training and support throughout their projects.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for a CLP Future Conservationist Award, the team and project must meet the following criteria:

CLP Awards are for team-based conservation projects – each team must have at least three people.
50% or more of the team members must be nationals of the country where the project is taking place. Nationals of a country subject to sanctions or trade restrictions imposed by the USA, UK or EU are NOT eligible to participate on a project team.
The team leader must be a national of the country where the project is taking place. Co-leadership with a non-national will be considered, subject to clear justification.
All team members must be early-career conservationists with no more than five years of paid work experience in the conservation sector. ‘Paid work experience’ does not include research for a university degree. Individuals who have more than five years of paid work experience in the conservation sector are not eligible for CLP support and should not apply.
No team member can be a part- or full-time paid employee or contractor with a CLP partner organisation, including BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora International and the Wildlife
Conservation Society, at any time from project development through to implementation. Any team member volunteering at a CLP partner organisation at the time of application and/or project implementation MUST be declared in the application. They also need to explain how the CLP proposal differs from the partner organisation’s work.
Applicants can participate in only one CLP project at a time and in no more than three Future Conservationist Award projects in total, serving as team leader for no more than one Future Conservationist project.
CLP will ONLY accept proposals for projects to be implemented in one of the following 22 countries:
Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Egypt, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Oman, South Africa, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam