Deadline: 04-Sep-2024
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is releasing a call for Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for organizations that address the conservation of biodiversity in light of climate change in the Indian Ocean Islands of Tanzania and Zanzibar and that meet the criteria set out in this call.
Funding Information
- The total available funding for the region is US $850,000. CEPF expects to make between 6-10 awards with a maximum value of $200,000. Letters of Inquiry for greater than this amount may be immediately rejected. When considering how much to request, applicants should understand that CEPF has a goal of awarding grants of a size that allow for a breadth of organizational recipients.
- Shortlisted applicants will be expected to submit one or more proposal drafts over the ensuing several weeks, leading to grant awards by late December 2024.
- Applicants should anticipate projects that start by January 2025. All projects must be complete by December 2027; however, CEPF expects that based on the size of awards, projects will more likely last for roughly 24 months.
Eligible Activities
- The scope of this call is limited to the types of activities outlined in the program design. The strategy identifies three Strategic Directions and eight subordinate Investment Priorities, each aligned with illustrative targets. Competitive letters of inquiry will propose project concepts that explicitly link to this framework.
Eligible Geographic Areas
- Per the program design, funding is limited to projects in Mafia, Pemba, Unguja, and their nearby islets. Funding is not available for sites in mainland Tanzania. CEPF can support policy, training, and economic interventions outside of Mafia, Pemba, and Unguja to the extent that this work has a direct impact on those islands.
- Competitive letters of inquiry will propose project concepts that explicitly link to provisional and confirmed terrestrial and marine key biodiversity areas on those islands.
Eligible Country
- Tanzania
Eligibility Criteria
- The CEPF Secretariat based at Conservation International in Arlington, Virginia, USA is accepting letters of inquiry from non-government organizations, community groups, Indigenous people’s organizations, women’s groups, universities, private companies, and other civil society organizations in relation to the eligible activities and geographies described.
For more information, visit CEPF.