Deadline: 17th March 2024

Applications are invited for funding from the Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC), a UK international research and development programme that seeks to support research into critical evidence gaps on how the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity can provide climate solutions and improve livelihoods.INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

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Theme - Unlocking Nature: Driving innovation in how biodiversity can support climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods through practice and governance.

Understand the evidence gaps in the potential of nature-based solutions using less utilised species (plants, animals, insects, fungi, trees, etc.) to:

• improving the livelihoods of the poor through greater resilience to climate change;
• meet demands for resources or ecosystem services; and
• protect and conserve traditional knowledge and biodiversity;
• is key to finding innovative approaches to guide practice and governance.

Focus areas

GCBC invites submissions of project concepts that concentrate their research at the intersection of GCBC's three focus areas:INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

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• Climate Change
• Livelihoods and reduction of poverty
• Biodiversity

Thematic areas

Within this theme, the RGC focuses on seven thematic sub-areas. They are:

• Land/water use - Innovative solutions for land/water use substitution practices and materials to achieve climate resilience and improved livelihoods.
• Habitat/species conservation - Balancing the need to conserve wild habitats and species against extractive industries (e.g. farming, mining, logging, hunting and fishing operations) - in practice and in policy.
• Sustainable production and consumption - Reversing unsustainable anthropogenic patterns of consumption and exploitation through innovative ways of valuing biodiversity more wisely.
• Biodiversity potential - Realise the potential of plant, fungal and other resources. wildlife to improve livelihoods in the face of climate change; and raise awareness of the value of biodiversity to encourage conservation.
• Incentives - How and what types of incentives can contribute to the sustainable utilisation of biodiversity for different income streams by local communities in order to improve climate resilience and livelihoods.
• Knowledge and data - Fill knowledge and data gaps on land use and marine systems in LMICs and empower scientists and institutions to engage at the policy interface scientific .
• Ecosystem resilience - Identify and address the interactions and cumulative impacts of existing stressors and climate change on natural ecosystems, and their implications for managing biodiversity in a way that creates resilience of ecosystems and local livelihoods to climate change.

Information on financing

• Grants must not exceed a total value of £1 million and have a minimum value of £100,000. They are looking for grant sizes that fit into one of the following four groups:
  • £ 100 thousand - 250 thousand
  • £ 250 thousand - 500 thousand
  • £ 500,000 - 750,000
  • £750,000 - £1 million
• Note: the value of any individual grant may not exceed 25% of the average income/turnover of the applicant or the lead partner of the consortium over the last 3 years.
• Research period
  • The research period will last a maximum of 36 months, starting in November 2024.
  • GCBC will consider project concept notes ranging from 12 to 36 months.

Geographical Focus

• Any proposed offer must come from, or include as a Partner in a consortium, an Organisation from an ODA-eligible country in the target geographical areas. A UK-based Partner or a presence in the UK is not essential.
• GCBC will accept applications for projects with activities in ODA-eligible countries in Latin America (including Central America), the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia and the Pacific and Small Island Developing States.
• Activities carried out in countries subject to UK sanctions are unlikely to receive funding. (Note: Russian organisations are not eligible to be Lead Applicants or Partners).

Eligibility of the organisation

• Applications are encouraged from many different types of potential delivery partners, both local and international, including but not limited to:
  • non-governmental organisations,
  • organisations civil society ,
  • multilateral organisations,
  • social development organisations,
  • academic institutions,
  • private sector partners.
• Funding can also be granted to parastatal organisations if the proposed activities do not receive funding from other governments. UN organisations are eligible under the same terms and conditions as other applicants.
• Candidates must not be under any exclusion or debarment due to professional or fiduciary negligence.
• Any proposed activities must be eligible (main objective to promote development economic and the well-being of developing countries) to finance ODA.
• Any proposed offer from a consortium must be led by a single Lead Delivery Partner. Potential Lead Delivery Partners will lead and submit applications on behalf of all the members of their consortium.
• Applications for project concept(s) must be:
  • led by an organisation with offices in an ODA-eligible country, or
  • led by an organisation that is part of a consortium with organisations that have an office in an ODA-eligible country or countries.
• GCBC encourages applications from Lead Delivery Partners/Organisations based in the target country eligible for ODA. New and equitable partnerships involving local project partners are also encouraged.
• Private sector partners can be members of consortia, but are not eligible to receive for-profit grant funds or act as Lead Delivery Partners of the consortium.
• PhD students are not eligible for funding under this call for grants.

For more information, visit GCBC .