British Embassy Manila: Seeking Applications for Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund and Darwin Initiative

Deadline for Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge: 12 September 2017

Deadline for Darwin Initiative: 21 September 2017

The British Embassy Manila is currently inviting applicants for its Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund and Darwin Initiative run by the UK’s Department of Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Department for International Development (DFID).

Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge

The Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund helps developing countries to tackle the illegal wildlife trade, by addressing demand reduction, strengthening enforcement and criminal justice, and providing alternative livelihoods.

Priority Areas of Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge

• Developing sustainable livelihoods and economic development, especially by:
  • supporting alternatives to engaging in the illegal wildlife trade
  • encouraging community led wildlife conservation, including retention of benefits within local communities
  • addressing the challenges of human-wildlife conflict
• Strengthening law enforcement, especially by:
  • addressing corruption
  • building capacity to prevent illicit financial flows from the illegal wildlife trade
  • improving law enforcement and border control in key source, transit and destination countries
• Reducing demand for IWT products by:
  • using evidence-based interventions to reduce demand for IWT products
  • working with businesses to keep IWT products out of the supply chain
  • establishing partnerships between source, transit and destination countries

Darwin Initiative

The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment in developing countries. The initiative funds projects that help countries rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to meet their objectives under one or more of the following biodiversity conventions:

• the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES)
• the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing
• the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Priority Areas of Darwin Initiative

Projects expected to address key threats to biodiversity, such as:

• habitat loss or degradation
• climate change
• invasive species
• over-exploitation

How to Apply

Interested applicants must submit their proposals via email at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund and Darwin Initiative.