BIOPAMA Medium Grants 2022 – Eastern and Southern Africa

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The BIOPAMA Action Component is a 21 million euros grant mechanism, providing funding opportunities to address protected and conserved areas, sustainable use of biodiversity, natural resources priorities for actions on the ground in the eligible Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific countries.

The objective of this call for proposals is to enable and support community-based organizations engaged in the conservation of biodiversity to carry out sustainable conservation measures in protected and conserved areas to protect the species, habitats and improve the livelihoods of the people who depend on them.

ELIGIBILITY OF ACTIVITIES:

To be eligible, activities must:

  • be located in one or several priority areas of Eastern and Southern African countries, that is: protected and/ or conserved area/s, including key biodiversity area/s, key landscape/s for conservation (where identified).
  • address clearly formulated priorities identified through the use of a quantitative diagnostic tool (i.e. a protected area management or governance assessment – PAME/PAGE) in terms of protected and conserved areas management and governance, sustainable use of natural resources and livelihoods of surrounding local communities. Note that any application not supported by a quantitative diagnostic tool will be automatically rejected.
  • be consistent with the BIOPAMA action component objectives (see section 1.2)
  • implement concrete conservation activities on the ground and achieve tangible results measured through clearly identified indicators
  • comply with the IUCN Environmental and social management system (ESMS)
  • enable sharing of project data and information with the relevant BIOPAMA regional observatory, as relevant. This will be included in the grant contract.

Examples of eligible activities include:

  • Protected and/or conserved area planning and management activities
  • Activities aimed at strengthening the governance and equitable management models in place
  • Law enforcement activities, including wildlife trafficking controls
  • Activities aimed at strengthening the institutional and legal framework/s in place
  • Activities focusing on threat mitigation in priority areas, including measures to combat illegal wildlife trade at community level
  • Activities focusing on climate change mitigation, resilience and adaptation strategies in priority areas
  • Activities aiming at improving sustainable livelihoods of local communities, vulnerable peoples and indigenous communities living in priority areas.

SIZE OF THE GRANTS: 

Grant size can vary from a minimum of 100,000 EUR to a maximum of 200,000 EUR.

DURATION OF THE GRANT:

The minimum duration of the project should be 12 months, and the maximum duration of the project should not exceed 24 months.

LOCATION OF THE ACTIVITIES: 

This call for proposal is opened for countries located in Eastern and Southern Africa only: Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

HOW TO APPLY: 

Applications must be submitted through the BIOPAMA Action Component grants management portal. For detailed information on the call for proposals and application visit; https://action.biopama.org/mg-2022-esa/

DEADLINE: 27 March 2022 at 23.59 UTC+1.

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