WWF India Small Grant Programme - Conservation and Research
Funds for NGOs in India Last date 31 Dec 2016
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Forest & Environment,Research & Doc,Others
WWF India Small Grant Programme - Conservation and Research: With the aim of encouraging young Indians to respond innovatively and independently to the conservation issues which affect the country, WWF-India is offering eligible individuals a one-time grant of up to Rs. 400,000 for carrying out conservation research or undertaking a conservation project.
The primary objective of this grant is to provide financial support to individuals based in India, who have developed and wish to implement short-term conservation research or initiatives that can contribute to larger conservation goals.
The SGP offers grants to individuals for activities and/or research that address issues and offer solutions or insights towards:
- Enabling communities and other stakeholders to address local environmental concerns
- Improving local livelihoods through conservation and natural resources management or
- promoting livelihoods that reduce impacts on biodiversity
- Aspects of trade involving wildlife species
- Increasing understanding on the status of lesser known or lesser studied species of
- wildlife
- Innovative approaches to awareness raising regarding environmental concerns
- Demonstrating individual or collective action towards conservation outcomes
Applicants must demonstrate a mature breadth and depth of knowledge on the area of environmental conservation and the particular geographical area or issue that they wish to contribute to through their project. The duration of the project should be between 6 to 24 months and the scale of the project should be such that funding awarded covers the total or the majority of the requirements.
CRITERIA: Proposals meeting some or all of the following criteria will receive priority consideration:
- Achieve a clear outcome within the project timeframe that can be scaled up or
- replicated
- Encourage participatory or community-based conservation and natural resource
- management
- Introduce innovative approaches that can demonstrate conservation impact
- Have a clearly articulated rationale that demonstrates urgency and need for the work
- Funds should be utilized primarily for field activities and not administrative
- expenditures or capital assets.
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