Deadline: 3-Jul-23
The Darwin Initiative Main invites applications to deliver strong results for biodiversity conservation and multidimensional poverty reduction based on good evidence, and strongly demonstrate the potential to scale further.
Items
- Elements of successful Darwin Initiative projects are likely to include:
- Enhancing the Capability and Capacity of national and local stakeholders, to help ensure a project’s long-term legacy.
- Delivering outputs that will achieve both biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction.
- Strengthen the adoption or use of evidence and best practices in biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction.
Funding Information
- Darwin Initiative Main grants, ranging from £100,000 to £600,000.
- Duration: Projects should last for between 1 to 3 years maximum, starting on or after 1 April 2024 (but before 30 September 2024), and complete by 31 March 2027.
Scoring Criteria
- Technical, Biodiversity, and Poverty Reduction
- The assessors acknowledge the significant differences between the two stages, especially differences in the supporting evidence (eg CVs are not required at Stage 1). At Stage 1 assessors are looking for applicants and proposals that have the potential to deliver a competitive proposal at Stage 2. At Stage 2, assessors are looking for evidence that proposals are new and distinctive, with a strong probability of delivering sustainable benefits and a scalable approach.
- Capability and capacity building activities should form a core role within the approach, to underpin the legacy of the grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead Partners can be based anywhere, but they strongly encourage projects to have in-country Lead Partners.
- All projects are strongly expected to seek and work with in-country partners, with the meaningful and early engagement of in-country stakeholders.
- All projects must consider how they will contribute to reducing inequality between genders, with activities expected to generate net benefits for women and girls.
- Darwin Initiative is entirely Official Development Assistance (ODA) funded, and therefore projects must promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries as a primary objective, and the eligible countries projects will in practice be expected to be mostly focused on Low Income and Lower Middle -Income countries.
- Upper Middle-Income countries (UMICs) are eligible, however, projects applying to work in a UMIC must clearly demonstrate a stronger case for support. This includes operating in areas of high importance for biodiversity and a clear poverty reduction need. Such applications must also clearly demonstrate that they will also:
- advance knowledge, evidence and impact in Least Developed or Low-Income Countries, or
- contribute to a global public good, for example by advancing understanding and/or strengthening the knowledge base related to biodiversity conservation/sustainable use and poverty reduction, or
- contribute to serious and unique advancements on a critical issue as a result of specific circumstances of the upper-middle income country that could not be made elsewhere.
For more information, visit Darwin Initiative .
