Deadline: 7 January 2019
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is currently inviting eligible organizations to submit Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for the eighth round of its Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot small and large grants program.
Funding Information
This Call provides for the financing of small and large grants.
- Small grants are up to US$20,000.
- Large grants are over US$20,000. CEPF decides on the amount to be awarded based on the scope and magnitude of the conservation results expected to be achieved. Please note that the average size of large grants ranges from US$50,000 to US$140,000
Duration
CEPF expects projects under this call to be contracted and start implementation between April and September 2019, and to end on or before 31 May 2020, which reflects the expected closure of the second phase of CEPF investment in the Tropical Andes.
Strategic Directions
- Improve protection and management of 36 priority KBAs to create and maintain local support for conservation and to mitigate key threats.
- Improve protection and management of 36 priority KBAs to create and maintain local support for conservation and to mitigate key threats.
- Promote local stakeholder engagement and the integration of social and environmental safeguards into infrastructure, mining and agriculture projects to mitigate potential threats to the KBAs in the seven priority corridors.
- Promote and scale up opportunities to foster private sector approaches for biodiversity conservation to benefit priority KBAs in the seven corridors.
- Safeguard globally threatened species.
- Strengthen civil society capacity, stakeholder alliances and communications to achieve CEPF conservation outcomes, focusing on indigenous, Afro-descendent and mestizo groups
Eligibility Criteria
To qualify for a CEPF grant, the applicant must meet the following criteria:
- Be a local or international conservation non-governmental organization (NGO), economic development or community-based NGO, academic institution, indigenous organization, community-based organization, or private sector representative interested in the sustainable use of natural resources;
- Have a legal personality independent of any government agency or actor;
- Have the authority to apply for and receive private funds and be able to account for, in a transparent manner, and under a separate bank account.
- Not be able to assert a claim of sovereign immunity.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
For more information, please visit https://www.cepf.net/grants/open-calls-for-proposals-tropical-andes-small-and-large-grants