Conservation Leadership Program

The Conservation Leadership Program (CLP) makes grants to advance the leadership capacity of early-career conservationists in low- and middle-income economies in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern and South-eastern Europe and the Middle East. The program mainly supports small teams of at least three individuals.

Benefits

  • Future Conservationist Awards are up to US$15 thousand.
  • Follow-Up Awards and Leadership Awards are up to US$25 thousand and US$50 thousand, respectively.

Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a CLP Future Conservationist Award, the team and project must meet the following eligibility criteria.
Team:

  • CLP Awards are for team-based conservation projects – each team must have at least three people.
  • 50% or more of the team members must be nationals of the country where the project is taking place.
  • Nationals of a country subject to sanctions or trade restrictions imposed by the USA, UK or EU are NOT eligible to participate on a project team.
  • The team leader must be a national of the country where the project is taking place. Co-leadership with a non-national will be considered, subject to clear justification.
  • All team members must be early-career conservationists with no more than five years of work experience in the conservation sector. ‘Work experience’ does not include research for a university degree. Individuals who have more than five years of work experience in the conservation sector are not eligible for CLP support and should not apply.
  • No team member can be a part- or full-time paid employee or contractor with a CLP partner organization, including BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora International and the Wildlife Conservation Society, at any time from project development through to implementation.
  • Any team member volunteering at a CLP partner organization at the time of application and/or project implementation MUST be declared in the application. They also need to explain how the CLP proposal differs from the partner organization’s work.
  • Applicants can participate in only one CLP project at a time and in no more than three Future Conservationist Award projects in total, serving as team leader for no more than one Future Conservationist project.

Project:

  • CLP offers support to early-career conservationists living and working in low and middle income economies in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern and South-eastern Europe and the Middle East. The project must take place in one of the eligible countries.
  • The project duration must be no less than three months and no more than one year in length.
  • The total funding request from CLP must not exceed US $15,000 and CLP funding must cover at least 50% of the total project budget.
  • The project must focus on globally important species for biodiversity conservation that are at risk.

Future Conservationist Award Guidelines

  • For those projects focusing on multiple species and/or taxonomic groups, at least one species in each taxonomic group being studied must be at risk.
  • The project must be for new work rather than the continuation of an ongoing, established project.
  • Applicants must demonstrate that the proposed project goes beyond academic research being carried out for any team member’s degree.
  • Projects that involve laboratory analyses must justify why this work is critical and urgent for conservation.
  • The proposal must be written by the applicants themselves.

Instructions for Eligible Applicants:
1. Applications must be submitted via the CLP online application portal by the deadline Sunday, 10 October 2021. Applications emailed to CLP will not be accepted.
2. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
3. Thoroughly read the Guidelines for Applicants prior to filling out the application form.
4. Applicants must meet each of the criteria outlined in the Guidelines.
5. The application form must be completed fully by the team and must be in English.
6. Decisions will be based on the information provided, so answer all questions completely.
7. If you would like feedback from a CLP alumnus or CLP staff (clp@birdlife.org) on your application, you must reach out by the 26th of September 2021 at the latest – two weeks before the deadline.
Instructions on how to contact CLP Alumni Reviewers are available on the CLP website.
8. If you have any questions or problems, contact CLP by emailing clp@birdlife.org

For all details: https://www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/grants/grant-overview/future-conservationist-award/

Applications must be submitted by 11:59pm GMT on Sunday, 10 October, 2021.

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