Deadline: 9-Jun-23
The Papua New Guinea Biodiversity and Climate Fund has launched the call for proposals to support the creation and expansion of Protected Areas (including other effective area-based conservation measures – OECMs) in Papua New Guinea.
The BCF has formed a partnership with the Rainforest Trust to support Papua New Guinea to expand its Protected Area network through the creation of new Protected Areas and expansion of existing ones.
Using stakeholder input, donor preferences, scientific data, and its strategic plan, the PNG BCF Board will establish the Fund’s grant-making priorities.
Funding Information
- Full project grants typically range between $250,000 and $3 million over 1-6 years and must lead to legal land or sea protection.
Strategic approach of the funding call
- Projects may protect any type of habitat, terrestrial or marine, so long as the project meets at least one of the following geographic criteria:
- Protects globally significant populations of Critically Endangered (CR) or Endangered (EN) species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species often in KBAs or AZE sites.
- Protects a large, intact ecosystem, especially of high integrity forest. Priority geographies for this criterion include but are not limited to: Amazonia broadly defined, the Congo Basin Forests, Southern African Miombo, and the islands of Borneo and New Guinea.
- Protects habitat critical for mitigating global climate change, such as high carbon forests, peat swamps, seagrass meadows and mangroves.
Eligibility Criteria
- In line with the BCF’s grants manual and UNDP, locally registered non-governmental organisation or community-based organisations are eligible to apply. Public and private entities are not entitled to apply under this funding call. Lead organisations must have legally existed and operated in Papua New Guinea for at least two years. The BCF actively supports partnerships and collaborations. Organisations based outside PNG may be proposal partners but may not be the lead organization.
- Note: The BCF’s due diligence requires us to screen the legal status of applicants. It is recommended to check that your application fully satisfies the screening procedures before submission
- The current plan is to issue a Call for Proposals in the fourth quarter of 2022, for projects that will start in 2023. They anticipate that BCF will in general issue one or two calls in any given year.
Ineligible Actions
- Actions that take place outside of or do not directly contribute to the creation or expansion of a Protected Area in Papua New Guinea.
- Activities with potentially significant adverse environmental and/or social risks and impacts that, individually or cumulatively, are hard to mitigate or reverse or unlikely to be mitigated or reversed;
- Activities with potentially significant adverse impacts on vulnerable groups, particularly with respect to displacement, loss of livelihoods or cultural resources, which are unlikely to be compensated to the satisfaction of those affected;
- Activities which do not provide potentially impacted stakeholders, in particular vulnerable groups, opportunities to participate in consultation and decision-making during the preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the activities;
- Activities with potentially significantly adverse impact on sites of significant archaeological, cultural or religious importance.
- Activities which do not have any measurable conservation or climate benefits, or which will not contribute to improved conservation and climate outcomes.
For more information, visit Creation and Expansion of Protected Areas.
