The MacArthur Foundation’s Conservation and Sustainable Development Grant is geographically limited only to three main regions around the world: the Great Lakes of East Central Africa, the Greater Mekong and its headwaters, and the watersheds of the Andes. Each is a place of high biodiversity, important freshwater service, and carbon-storage value.
The four main issues covered in this area are:
Climate change mitigation and adaptation;
- Understanding and influencing China’s consumption patterns and use of natural resources, particularly in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific;
- Integrating environmental and social considerations into commodities markets, (for example: carbon, timber, oil palm, cotton, and soy);
- Responding to the overexploitation and illegal use of marine fisheries.
MacArthur’s conservation and sustainable development program makes grants on a three-year recurring cycle, with one portfolio of grants prepared annually within each region.
A typical grant portfolio consists of 10 to 15 grants per grantmaking area per year. Most approved grants receive funding for a three-year period and grant renewals are evaluated based on performance following three-year implementation.
Regional Grantmaking Cycle / Letter of Inquiry Deadlines:
2014
Mekong Basin Region-wide / By invitation only
Lake Victoria Watershed / April 2, 2014 (For September 2014 consideration)
2015
Lower Mekong Basin (January)
Great Lakes Region-wide (April)
Southern Andes (April)
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