Deadline: 1-Feb-21
The PCLG is excited to announce that it is piloting a new small grants initiative that will foster multi-stakeholder collaboration and learning between conservation and development and/or rights focused organisations in three great ape range states.
Themes of Interest
Potential themes of interest include:
- Responses to emerging conservation and development challenges in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Indigenous Peoples and local communities and conservation – including equity, justice, governance and/or human rights.
- Issues relating to conservation and wellbeing – including, for example, negative social impacts of conservation, benefit-sharing from conservation, conflict in the context of conservation and development interventions.
- Human-wildlife conflict.
- Gender equity in conservation approaches.
- The role of communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade.
- Large scale infrastructure projects and/or land acquisition, communities and conservation.
Funding Information
- The minimum PCLG small grant you can apply for is USD$ 500.
- The maximum PCLG small grant you can apply for is US$ 5000.
- Please note that our overall grant budget is approximately USD$ 25,000 and we hope to fund more than five grants with this amount.
Eligible Activities
- Facilitating national, regional or local dialogues;
- Learning workshops or related exercises;
- Participation in relevant national or regional conferences/policy consultations/events as a key speaker/contributor;
- Evidence synthesis and sharing findings;
- Establishing new partnerships;
- Mobilising for policy advocacy;
- Communicating research findings/insights or learning from experience of a project.
Key Requirements
- Identify a key learning issue
- For the first round of PCLG small grants, we are particularly keen to support activities that respond to COVID-19 and the challenges this disease is creating in great ape range states for conservation and development.
- Create a learning group
- To be eligible for a small grant, at least two eligible applicants (including the lead applicant) must collaborate to form a learning group. These learning groups must demonstrate:
- Collaboration between conservation and development or rights-focused organisations;
- Learning on the great ape related conservation and development issue you tackle; and
- Timely and relevant activities in the context you are working.
- To be eligible for a small grant, at least two eligible applicants (including the lead applicant) must collaborate to form a learning group. These learning groups must demonstrate:
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible countries – Activities must take place in one or more of:
- Eligible applicants – Learning groups must be made up of:
- Community-based associations or organisations;
- Community-based enterprises and cooperatives;
- Women’s associations or organisations;
- Indigenous or ethnic minority groups or associations;
- Youth groups or associations;
- Non-governmental organisations.
For more information, visit https://www.povertyandconservation.info/en/pages/pclg-small-grants