Deadline: 1 June 2014
The Waterloo Foundation is inviting proposals for both local as well as strategic projects under the Tropical Rainforest funding opportunity. Initiatives working to protect tropical rainforests for their value to the climate, communities and biodiversity, principally through avoided deforestation are encouraged to apply.
Eligibility Criteria –
- UK-based charities, who work in close partnership with smaller local NGOs based in the countries in which they operate, are eligible to apply. Organization outside UK can also apply with reference from someone in INGO with office in UK or any relevancy to be offered the fund.
- Applicants must provide the evidence of the success of their previous program.
- For local projects –
- Applicants should be able to evidence previous successful tropical rainforest projects, with outcomes including –
- Demonstrable protection of an area of tropical rainforest specified by hectare and cost
- Implementation of a management plan
- Improved livelihoods and income levels of forest-dependent communities
- The area of tropical forest the project will protect in hectares.
- For strategic projects –
- Evidence of previous successful strategic programs e.g. an attributable change in policy or improved supply chain. They may ask to see a full copy of the supporting data and evaluation at a later stage
- For the proposed program, the specific measurable outcomes that applicants expect the program to achieve, and the methods they will use to monitor these outcomes
- The strategy put in place to ensure the sustainability of the program’s objectives for the long term
Applicants can formulate their own proposal as their knowledge and necessity.
For more information, please visit Tropical Rainforest page.
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