The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is designed to safeguard Earth’s biologically richest and most threatened regions, known as biodiversity hotspots. CEPF is a joint initiative of l’Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the European Union, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the World Bank, and in the Indo-Burma hotspot is also supported by the Margaret
A. Cargill Foundation. A fundamental goal is to ensure civil society is engaged in biodiversity conservation.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in its role as the Regional Implementation Team (RIT), and CEPF invite Letters of Inquiry (LoIs) from non-government organisations,community groups, private companies and other civil society organisations for biodiversity conservation projects in the Indo-Burma Hotspot.
The Indo-Burma Hotspot comprises all non-marine parts of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, plus parts of southern China.
This is the second call for LOIs issued by IUCN and CEPF for the Indo-Burma Hotspot under the second phase of investment (2013-2018). This call for LOIs covers Strategic Directions 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 in the ecosystem profile.