Deadline: 10 August 2018
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is accepting proposals in the five thematic areas:
- Biodiversity
- Land degradation
- Climate Change
- International Water
- Chemicals
Focus Areas
The GEF Small Grants Programme, provides communities and civil society organizations with grants to enable them to implement projects in the focal areas of:
- Conservation of biodiversity: in protected areas, critical forest ecosystems, and conservation of biodiversity related to sustainable agriculture.
- Climate change mitigation: by reducing the percentage of greenhouses gases emission.
- Prevention of Land degradation and soil erosion.
- Protection of International Waters.
- Reduction of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)/chemicals.
Types of Projects
Under priorities and focal areas mentioned above, grant is awarded to projects with the following activities:
- Support planning and participation of the community: The maximum grant is US $ 2,000. The project aims to involve the community in determining the actual situation and developing plans to improve it.
- Pilot projects: including projects with innovative ideas and application of appropriate techniques and technologies, feasibility study of these projects, encouraging project replication and scaling up.
- Capacity building: aims to build the capacity of NGOs (training, technical support) to implement local activities within the priorities and focal areas of interest of SGP.
- Monitoring and analysis: includes support of associations and research centers (especially universities) in projects that aims at assisting in monitoring existing projects, documenting successful projects, and drawing lessons learned.
- Networking, policy discussion and information dissemination: including projects that support dissemination of information on successful projects, networking projects that provide joint work among all stakeholders, and projects related to advocacy to correct policies
- The maximum grant for one project is $ 50,000, as well as the maximum limit for one proponent is $ 50,000.
Selection Criteria
The applicant must:
- Have experience, credibility and good governance (transparency, democracy, acceptance from the community and have previous experience in the field).
- Be representative (public committee, NGO, research center or academic institution).
- Coordinate with other local partners (public committees, NGOs, municipalities, private sector, youth clubs, women’s associations, etc.).
- Have the ability to write narrative and financial progress reports and to propose ways to modify and evaluate the project.
- Be a non-profit, non-governmental body.
- Have a bank account
How to Apply
Project proposals should be sent via email at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit GEF Small Grants Programme.