Call for Applications: Community-Nominated Priority Places for Species at Risk (Canada)

Deadline: 15-Apr-21

The Government of Canada has launched a Call for Applications for Community-nominated Priority Places for Species at Risk.

Community-nominated Priority Places (CNPP) for Species at Risk is part of Canada’s Nature Fund. CNPP will support multi-partner initiatives in priority places where there are opportunities to protect and recover species at risk and their habitat through multi-species and ecosystem-based conservation action.

Objectives

CNPP is a 4-year (2019 to 2020 through 2022 to 2023) funding initiative administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).

CNPP is seeking joint proposals (lead applicant plus one or more partners) for the second two-year period of the initiative (2021 to 2023) for projects in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, or the Yukon that:

Identify defined priority places where there are opportunities to protect and recover multiple terrestrial species at risk listed under the Species at Risk Act and their habitat.
Implement coordinated, multi-partner conservation actions in these identified community-nominated priority places.

Projects should result in a high return on investment and benefits to multiple species.

Funding Information

Federal contributions will be no more than $500,000 per recipient per fiscal year of the funding agreement.

Expected Results

Priorities of CNPP will include:

Contributes towards recovery of species at risk.
Advances partnerships and collaboration, including with Indigenous peoples.
Contributes to priority co-benefits (e.g. contribution to achieving Pathway to Canada Target, provision of ecosystem services, climate change adaptation and mitigation, socio-economic benefits).

Eligible Projects

Joint proposals (i.e. lead applicant plus one or more partners) are required. In general, activities that could be implemented in an identified priority place could include the following:

Cooperative multi-species, ecosystem/area-based action planning
- develop goals, objectives, strategies, and project monitoring and implementation plans for selected conservation targets.
- activities could include data collection including Indigenous Knowledge, mapping, governance-building, stakeholder engagement, capacity building for the use of adaptive management tools.
Implementation of planned actions
- implement on the ground recovery and protection actions (e.g. species management and restoration, species and habitat protection, habitat improvement, threat reduction).
Monitoring, analysis and evaluation
- gather and analyze project monitoring data and update monitoring plan (e.g. Are threats reduced? Are strategies effective?); adapt actions as needed.

In cases where applicants have already completed the initial stages, such as action planning, proposals can focus on implementation and other subsequent stages. In order to achieve conservation action on the ground quickly, it is recommended that projects do not allocate more than 50% of all funds requested to planning activities.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible recipients include:

Domestic or international not-for-profit organizations, such as charitable and volunteer organizations, professional associations, and non-governmental organizations.
Domestic or international Indigenous organizations, governments, individuals, boards, commissions, communities, associations and authorities, including
- Indigenous not-for-profit organizations.
- District councils, Chiefs councils and Tribal councils.
- Indigenous research, academic and educational institutions.
- Indigenous for-profit organizations.
Domestic or international research, academic and educational institutions.
Canadian individuals.
Domestic or international for-profit organizations, such as small businesses with less than 500 employees, companies, corporations, and industry associations.
Local organizations such as community associations and groups, seniors’ and youth groups, and service clubs.
Municipal and local governments and their agencies.