Deadline- 27 September 2013
All eligible applicants are invited to submit applications for Darrell Posey Fellowship for Ethnoecology and Traditional Resource Rights. The mission of this program is to promote understanding of peoples’ complex and dynamic relationships with their environment, and support indigenous peoples and local communities working to sustainably manage, and secure rights to, their environment and resources.
Eligibility & Criteria-
Small Grants
- Grants are provided to local community and indigenous peoples’ groups, and projects and individuals working with them. Support will not be provided to large projects or organizations with access to significant funding from other sources. Clear need, as well as the impact of the small grant, are central elements of the selection process.
- Funds can be used to support infrastructure, staff time, and other ad hoc needs, and to address pressing concerns as they arise.
Field Fellowships
- Field Fellowships are awarded to individuals working on applied ethnobiology or traditional resource rights issues. The main objective is to address in practical and applied manner the most pressing issues identified by local groups;
- Fellows may be Indigenous peoples or from local communities, or may have worked with local groups for many years. They may or may not be undertaking academic research and may be established and experienced, or ‘emerging leaders’.
- Funds can be applied to the costs of field and project work, or to cover an individual’s time; the fellowship is intended to support well-respected individuals undertaking excellent work, without attaching many strings or creating bureaucratic demands on their time;
- A solid track record is necessary, but priority will be given to individuals undertaking their work outside of traditional financial and institutional support structures, and therefore in more significant need of support. Individuals working on these issues often have limited or sporadic support for their work, and there are very few formal positions in the field of applied ethnobiology.
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