Deadline: 22-Apr-22
BIOPAMA Action Component is now accepting applications for Small Technical Grants 2022 – Eastern and Southern Africa to support the development of national and/or regional policies and actions based on scientific evidence and data. This includes for example (but is not limited to) the development of a national approach to sustainable financing, the development of a national approach to equitable governance and/management effectiveness, or the identification of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs).
Funding Information
- In total, 398,000 EUR is available to support this call for proposals. Of this amount, Approximately 240,000 EUR is reserved for the following countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.
- Grant size can vary from a minimum of 20,000 EUR to a maximum of 50,000 EUR. No cofunding is necessary from the applicant.
Project Duration
- The duration of the project should be maximum 12 months.
- Projects must end on, or before 30 September 2024.
Eligible Cost
Eligible costs include personnel costs (salaries, social charges, and employer costs), subcontracting (external services), supplies (not office related), and travel (international travel, local
Eligible activities
To be eligible, activities must:
- When relevant, address clearly formulated priorities identified through the use of a quantitative diagnostic tool10 (i.e. a protected area management or governance assessment – PAME/PAGE) in terms of protected and conserved areas management and governance, sustainable use of natural resources and livelihoods of surrounding local communities.
- When relevant, be consistent with the BIOPAMA action component objectives
- Enable sharing of project data and information with the relevant BIOPAMA regional observatory, as relevant. This will be included in the grant contract.
- Applicants are strongly encouraged to align the activities of their project (and logical framework) with the BIOPAMA AC indicators as feasible
Eligible Cost
Eligible costs include personnel costs (salaries, social charges, and employer costs), subcontracting (external services), supplies (not office related), travel (international travel, local travel, accommodation, and subsistence), meetings & workshops (venue costs, catering, speakers’ fees).
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Countries
- This call for proposal is opened for countries located in Eastern and Southern Africa only.
- These are: Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Eligible Actors
This call for proposals is opened to all stakeholders working in and around protected and conserved areas.In order to be eligible for this grant, the applicant must:
- Be a registered legal entity and
- Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the grant, not acting as
- An intermediary and
- Be non-profit-making and
- Be:
- A targeting network or cluster of protected areas at the national or regional level. Single protected/conserved area/s are not eligible.
- A national civil society organisation, national NGO, non-profit organisation, national authority, agency established in the targeted eligible country(ies)
- Not be a beneficiary of another active grant funded by a donor, including the European Union, for the same activities, or
- An EU member state organisation, EU OCT organisation, OECD member state organisation, or regional or international organisation, provided the following conditions are fulfilled:
- Proven successful experience in the targeted eligible country/ies of cooperation on protected and conserved area issues and natural resources management;
- Proven experience of actions on the field in the targeted eligible country/ies;
- Proven successful experience of collaboration with national and local government and/or local civil society and local communities in the targeted eligible 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, and local communities.
- This type of stakeholder may not apply as lead applicant alone. They may only apply as lead applicant with a national organisation as co applicant; or as co-applicant.
- Natural or legal persons established in a member state of OECD are eligible only in the case of contracts exclusively implemented in a Least Developed Country (LDC) or a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC)
Important: a stakeholder may apply to up to two small technical grants as lead applicant, but can only be awarded one grant.
For more information, visit https://action.biopama.org/stg-2022-esa/