Call for proposals are invited by CARPE-IUCN Small grants program. IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature was incorporated in the year 1948.
The main mission of IUCN is to influence, encourage and support societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and also to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
IUCN small grant program using CARPE fund has the objective to strengthening civil society for sustainable forest conservation in Central Africa.
Detailed objectives are as follows:
- Promote and build constituency for conservation among civil society;
- Foster partnerships between landscapes consortia and local civil society in the field;
- Fill gaps in conservation’s analytical agenda including the design of a suitable mechanism to provide feedback to local communities on conservation strategies, exchanges of field experiences and success stories between and within landscapes;
- Facilitate the participation of Central African institutions and governments in CARPE activities;
- Reinforce the capacities of local civil society in institutional development and strategic planning;
- Effectively integrate CARPE activities in the field with host country institutions;
- Identify Natural Resources Management policies that require country team advocacy for policy reform or development;
- Raise local, national and regional awareness of CARPE objectives and achievements;
- Foster gender equity.
To meet the objectives of this program, the following domain of intervention will be given priorities:
- Capacity Building;
- Natural Resources Management Policy;
- Natural Resources Management governance;
- Capitalization and sharing of lessons learned;
- Gender equity;
- Landscape issues related to policy
- sustainable management;
Deadline to apply: 15 February 2012
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