Deadline: 10 August 2018

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is accepting proposals in the five thematic areas:

• Biodiversity
• Land degradation
• Climate Change
• International Water
• Chemicals

Focus Areas

The GEF Small Grants Programme, provides communities and civil society organizations with grants to enable them to implement projects in the focal areas of:

• Conservation of biodiversity: in protected areas, critical forest ecosystems, and conservation of biodiversity related to sustainable agriculture.
• Climate change mitigation: by reducing the percentage of greenhouses gases emission.
• Prevention of Land degradation and soil erosion.
• Protection of International Waters.
• Reduction of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)/chemicals.

Types of Projects

Under priorities and focal areas mentioned above, grant is awarded to projects with the following activities:

• Support planning and participation of the community: The maximum grant is US $ 2,000. The project aims to involve the community in determining the actual situation and developing plans to improve it.
• Pilot projects: including projects with innovative ideas and application of appropriate techniques and technologies, feasibility study of these projects, encouraging project replication and scaling up.
• Capacity building: aims to build the capacity of NGOs (training, technical support) to implement local activities within the priorities and focal areas of interest of SGP.
• Monitoring and analysis: includes support of associations and research centers (especially universities) in projects that aims at assisting in monitoring existing projects, documenting successful projects, and drawing lessons learned.
• Networking, policy discussion and information dissemination: including projects that support dissemination of information on successful projects, networking projects that provide joint work among all stakeholders, and projects related to advocacy to correct policies
• The maximum grant for one project is $ 50,000, as well as the maximum limit for one proponent is $ 50,000.

Selection Criteria

The applicant must:

• Have experience, credibility and good governance (transparency, democracy, acceptance from the community and have previous experience in the field).
• Be representative (public committee, NGO, research center or academic institution).
• Coordinate with other local partners (public committees, NGOs, municipalities, private sector, youth clubs, women’s associations, etc.).
• Have the ability to write narrative and financial progress reports and to propose ways to modify and evaluate the project.
• Be a non-profit, non-governmental body.
• Have a bank account

How to Apply

Project proposals should be sent via email at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit GEF Small Grants Programme.