World Wildlife Fund: Reforestation Grants 2023

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The Reforestation Grant Program supports communities in deforested and degraded landscapes through forest restoration and reforestation. Reforestation grants are made to local organizations that focus on connecting corridors, creating buffer zones, improving degraded lands, restoring watersheds, and expanding forest cover.

ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES

The grant is open to organizations in the following eligible countries within the WWF-US priority areas: Belize, Brazil, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Dem. Republic of Congo, Ecuador, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Paraguay, Peru, Republic of Congo, Suriname, Tanzania, Uganda, and Vietnam.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Applicants must meet all the following criteria to be eligible.

  • Your organization must be legally registered in an eligible country.
  • Your organization must submit all required documents by the application deadline (November 30, 2022).

Restoration Project:

  • Your organization must conduct forest landscape restoration and reforestation activities in a WWF-US priority area.
  • Your organization must plant 10,000 or more native tree species.
  • The proposed project must include an active learning, practical skill component, or field-based learning activity that strengthen skills and knowledge of local stakeholders as part of the project activities.

WWF will provide special consideration to proposals that:

  • support forest landscape restoration activities
  • insert into wider efforts of addressing drivers of deforestation
  • focus on conservation of biodiversity and habitats including perspectives for scaling impact
  • consider opportunities of restoration for livelihood diversification
  • include consideration of gender equity in implementation and impact
  • build on partnership and active engagement with local communities
  • emphasize on enhancing local expertise, skills, and knowledge

Applicants may apply for one year of funding up to $15,000. The amount will vary.

Read full grant details: https://www.worldwildlife.org/projects/reforestation-grants

The deadline to submit an application is November 30, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

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