Deadline: 6-Jun-22
The Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT) is seeking proposals for the sixth round of its Blue Grants Fund.
The Blue Grants Fund of SeyCCAT offers grants to impactful Seychellois-led projects that advance marine conservations, sustainable fisheries, development of new and existing MPAs, and select other blue sectors.
The Blue Investment Fund managed by the Development Bank of Seychelles, the BGF is a part of the Seychelles’ Blue Finance approach. Every year, the BGF opens a 6-week application window when all Seychellois, Seychelles-based NGOs, government entities, parastatal organisations, and businesses registered for more than one year are invited to submit project proposals to the BGF.
Objectives
SeyCCAT is committed to developing strong and lasting creative collaborations to advance the mission. These partnerships will enable their to deliver their objectives to:
- Support new and existing marine and coastal protected areas and sustainable use zones;
- Empower the fisheries sector with robust science and knowhow to improve governance, sustainability, value and market options;
- Promote the rehabilitation of marine and coastal habitats and ecosystems that have been degraded by local and global impacts;
- Develop and implement risk reduction and social resilience plans to adapt to the effects of climate change;
- Trial and nurture business models to secure the sustainable development of Seychelles’ blue economy.
Values
The Values provide ourselves and the partners with a strong set of guiding principles. They believe that the abidance by these values presents their with the best possible chance of success:
- Trust: they treat all their stakeholders with equal rights, respect their differing viewpoints, and deliver on the commitments.
- Partnership: they encourage partnerships to blend knowledge and expertise, to create shared-value solutions, towards boosting the social, economic and environmental returns from their investments.
- Excellence: they strive to achieve the highest standards and learn quickly from their failures while working with and advancing best practices.
- Transparency: they are open and clear about their ideas and actions, focusing on evidence-based decision-making, and welcoming external inputs and dialogue to help their achieve measureable results.
- Innovation: they appraise existing methods and models, advocate for continuous learning, and champion new ways of working.
Funding Information
- A grant of up to SCR 150,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following categories may submit a proposal to SeyCCAT:
- Any locally-registered NGO
- Businesses
- Parastatal organisation
- Government departments or agencies
- All citizens of Seychelles
- Proposers must have legally existed and operated in Seychelles for a minimum of one year.
- Note on the eligibility requirements for the large grants:
- The large grants are reserved for businesses, NGOs, and other entities with a proven track record of managing large projects and formal financial and accounting systems in place.
- Individuals are not eligible to apply for large grants.
- Overseas-based applicants
- They actively seek to support “creative collaborations.” Overseas-based organisations are not eligible, although proposals from eligible local organisations may include overseas-based partners.
- Proposals must also be compliant with Environmental and Social Safeguards, if applied by SeyCCAT.
For more information, visit https://seyccat.org/blue-grants-fund/