Deadline: 10-Apr-22
The Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) has announced a call for proposals for Medium Grants Program 2022 to address priorities for action, identified through management and governance effectiveness assessments (for example, PAME tools including IMET, METT, RAPPAM, Green List, EoH or equivalent; or PAGE tools including SAPA, GAPA, or SAGE), to improve the management and governance of protected and conserved areas, and the sustainable use of natural resources and livelihoods of surrounding local communities.
The Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme is an initiative of the Organisation of African Caribbean and Pacific States financed by the European Union’s 11th European Development Fund (EDF). It is part of the European Union’s Biodiversity for Life Flagship initiative (B4Life) which supports efforts to halt loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. BIOPAMA is jointly implemented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC).
BIOPAMA aims to improve the long-term conservation, sustainable use of natural resources and ecosystem services in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, in protected and conserved areas and surrounding communities. Protected and conserved areas and the landscapes within which they are located have indeed a central role to play in preserving the biodiversity and ecosystem services that the majority of rural communities depend on for sustainable livelihoods.
Objectives
The overarching objectives of the action component are to:
- Enhance the management and governance of priority areas by addressing existing limitations (strengthening on-site infrastructure/equipment for patrolling, poaching control, developing capacity of staff);
- Strengthen the legal framework required to achieve effective biodiversity conservation;
- Support local communities’ initiatives aiming to enhance the livelihoods of local people whilst effectively contributing to protected areas management.
Funding Information
- In total, 2,9 million EUR is available to support this call for proposals in Western and Central Africa.
- Grant size can be up to 200,000 EUR. A 5% co-funding from the applicant is required. This means that BIOPAMA will provide up to a maximum of 95 % of the total eligible costs of the project; and the applicant is required to provide a minimum of 5% co-financing.
- The duration of the project should be of a maximum of 18 months.
Eligible Activities
To be eligible, activities must:
- be located in one or several priority areas of Western and Central countries, that is: protected and or conserved area/s, including key biodiversity area/s, key landscape/s for conservation (where identified).
- address clearly formulated priorities identified through the use of a quantitative diagnostic tool (i.e. a protected area management or governance evaluation – PAME/PAGE) in terms of protected and conserved areas management and governance, sustainable use of natural resources and livelihoods of surrounding local communities. Note that any application not supported by a quantitative diagnostic tool will be automatically rejected.
- be consistent with the BIOPAMA action component objectives.
- implement concrete conservation activities on the ground and achieve tangible results measured through clearly identified indicators.
- comply with the IUCN ESMS.
- enable sharing of project data and information with the relevant BIOPAMA regional. observatory, as relevant. This will be included in the grant contract.
Eligible Countries
This call for proposal is opened for countries located in the Western and Central Africa only. These are: Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Congo Democratic Republic of, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Chad, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call for proposals is opened to all stakeholders working in and around protected and conserved areas under the following conditions.
- In order to be eligible for this grant, the applicant as lead applicant acting individually or with co-applicant must:
- be a registered legal entity
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the grant
- be non-profit-making
- be established in the targeted eligible country and
- be:
- a protected/conserved area (or network of), or
- a national civil society organisation, national NGO, non-profit organisation, or
- a national authority, agency,
- not be a beneficiary of another active grant funded by a donor, including the European Union, for the same activities.
- The co-applicant can be also established in :
- EU member state, EU OCT, OECD member state3 , or it can be a regional or international organisation carrying out field projects, provided the following conditions are fulfilled:
- proven successful experience in the targeted ACP country/ies of cooperation on protected and conserved area issues and natural resources management;
- proven experience of actions on the field in the targeted ACP country/ies;
- proven successful experience of collaboration with national and local government and/or local civil society and local communities in the targeted ACP countries;
- formal support from the relevant national authorities;
- proven agreement and co-design of the proposal with the national and/or local government, PCA managers, local civil society, local communities.
For more information, visit https://action.biopama.org/mg-2022-wca/