CEPF Call for LOIs: Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot Small Grants Programme

Deadline: 29 September 2017

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is currently accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) from non-governmental organizations, community groups, private, enterprises, universities and other civil society organizations for its Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot small grants programme.

Strategic Direction & Priorities

Empower local communities to protect and manage biodiversity in priority Key Biodiversity Areas
- Support local communities to design and implement locally relevant conservation and sustainable management actions that respond to major threats at priority sites.
- Support the development of economic models to improve both livelihoods and biodiversity conservation.
- Build the technical, administrative and financial capacity of local organizations and their partners.
Enable civil society to mainstream biodiversity and conservation into policy making and business practices
- Support local research institutions to improve basic knowledge of biodiversity of priority ecosystems.

Funding Information

This call concerns small grants below US$20,000.
Applicants can apply for any amount below US$20,000 but due to transaction costs, CEPF advise to consider projects above US$5,000.

Eligibility Criteria

Non-governmental organizations, community groups, private enterprises, universities and other members of civil society can apply for funding.
Government-owned enterprises or institutions are eligible only if they can demonstrate that the enterprise or institution has:
- a legal personality independent of any government agency or actor;
- the authority to apply for and receive private funds; and
- may not assert a claim of sovereign immunity.
Grants cannot be used for:
- the purchase of land, involuntary resettlement of people, or activities that negatively affect physical cultural resources, including those important to local communities.
- activities adversely affecting Indigenous Peoples or where these communities have not provided their broad support to the project activities.
- removal or alteration of any physical cultural property (includes sites having archaeological, paleontological, historical, religious, or unique natural values).