The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for multi-year projects which focuses upon biodiversity data, knowledge and information services related to freshwater biodiversity and pollinator biodiversity. The foundation will award about $1,600,000 among qualifying proposals by July 2018. According to the foundation, proposals will not be accepted after March 09, 2018 .
The mission is to increase the access to and the use of information for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2007, the foundation has invested more than $16M in biodiversity informatics projects that focuses on: (1) collecting and enhancing data, (2) aggregating, synthesizing, and publishing data, (3) making data more widely available to potential end users, and (4) interpreting and gaining insights from biodiversity data to inform policy and conservation of biodiversity.
The JRS strategy is to connect data to knowledge use in domains of conservation and sustainable development where the demand for information can sustain investment in biodiversity informatics. This call for proposals supports our grant making programs in Freshwater Biodiversity and Resources and in Pollinator Biodiversity and Services.
The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is focusing our grant making in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. Exceptions to this policy may be made for projects with the potential for exceptional biodiversity informatics capacity development impact, highly transferable models or technologies, or exceptional partnerships of data providers and data use.
