Deadline: 24-Mar-2025
The Ocean Community Empowerment and Nature Grants Programme (OCEAN) is seeking applications to support large scale partnerships to deliver lasting change to the marine environment and coastal communities.
Focus Areas
- The Partnership Grants pathway has been designed to meet the needs of medium to large, established organisations that work with locally-led organisations based in the country where they plan to implement their project. All Partnership Grants applications must:
- support a reduction in multi-dimensional poverty;
- lead to improved protection, restoration, conservation or sustainable management of the marine environment;
- reduce gender and social inequalities and empower community members by reducing barriers and increasing equitable access to assets, resources, and capabilities for women, people with disabilities, and other marginalised groups (i.e., a GEDSI Empowering approach);
- demonstrate how they contribute to climate adaption and/or climate mitigation;
- partner with at least one organisation based in the main project country;
- effectively engage with and work alongside partner organisation(s) to support local communities;
- demonstrate a good understanding of the context in which the project will take place;
- implement an approach at a unique scale via well-established networks to provide maximum impact and deliver long-term outcomes to the marine environment and local communities.
Funding Information
- Between GBP 500,000.00 and GBP 3,000,000.00.
- The maximum annual budget value in any given year must not exceed 25% of the lead organisation’s annual income.
- Minimum Duration: 12 months; Maximum Duration: 41 months (all projects must conclude by 31 March 2029).
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead organisation:
- Can be a non-profit organisation, academic or research institute, private sector organisation, business, or business association
- Must be formally established for more than three years and must be able to provide at least three full years of audited financial accounts.
- Can be based anywhere in the world, though projects from local/national organisations are encouraged.
- No income requirements apply.
- Funds cannot be used to generate a profit for the lead organization
- Partner organisations:
- The lead organisation must partner with at least one organisation legally registered in the main project country. If a project is working in multiple countries, then it should identify a partner in each country.
- Partner organisations can be a non-profit organisation, academic or research institute, private sector organisation, business, or business association. At least one partner must be legally registered in the project country and no income requirements apply to the Partners.
- Government agencies and inter-governmental organisations can be a partner organisation but may not receive funding.
- If the lead organisation has local or affiliated offices in the project country, in spite of these being set up as separate legal entities, it may partner with them but must also partner with at least one other organisation legally registered in the project country.
For more information, visit OCEAN.