Deadline: 3-Mar-25
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is seeking applications for the Update of the Ecosystem Profile for the Mountains of Central Asia Biodiversity Hotspot Program.
The result of this call will be the issuance of a grant between Conservation International, which administers CEPF on behalf of the global donors, and a single lead organization, which in turn, may have subordinate partners if it so proposes.
Funding Information
- The total budget that CEPF will allocate for this award, inclusive of all taxes, management support costs or other indirect costs, is US$200,000 (two hundred thousand United States dollars).
Duration
- The period of performance is anticipated to be from 24 March to 31 December 2025.
Conservation Outcomes
- Conservation outcomes are the entire set of conservation targets in a hotspot that need to be achieved to prevent loss of global biodiversity. The CEPF investment strategy will be based upon these outcomes, first to ensure that CEPF investments are directed at the conservation of global biodiversity, and second to enable measurement of the success of conservation investments.
- Conservation outcomes exist at three scales, namely:
- globally threatened species;
- the sites that sustain them (i.e., KBAs); and
- the corridors necessary to maintain the ecological and evolutionary processes upon which those sites depend.
Eligibility Criteria
- CEPF will accept proposals from any qualified organization, including NGOs, private consulting firms and universities. Government-owned enterprises or institutions are eligible only if they can establish that the enterprise or institution:
- has a legal personality independent of any government agency or actor;
- has the authority to apply for and receive private funds; and
- is not able to assert a claim of sovereign immunity
- Organizations may choose to form a consortium for the purposes of submitting a proposal. If a consortium is submitting a proposal in response to this call, then one organization must be clearly identified as the lead. The lead organization will have final responsibility for submitting the consolidated proposal, and, if successful, will be responsible for leading implementation, reporting to CEPF, receiving and disbursing funds, and coordinating the other members of the consortium.
For more information, visit CEPF.