The Waitt Foundation is seeking applications for its Grants Programme Quick Conservation of the Oceans (ROC).
ROC Grants provide small grants with a quick turnaround time for solutions to emerging ocean conservation and protection issues. This complements the Waitt Foundation's existing large grants programme and responds to conservation opportunities, supports higher risk ideas at a low financial cost and engages with small local NGOs on a global scale.
Themes
Grants finance projects related to the Waitt Foundation's mission to support sustainable fisheries and marine protected areas (MPAs). This includes sub-themes of:
- Research Scientific - Includes projects science natural or social sciences.
- Politics- It includes opportunistic projects around single public policy windows, such as preparing policy analyses and supporting expert efforts to inform decision-makers about upcoming government actions.
- Management Includes application and infrastructure support.
- Communications- It includes public awareness and stakeholder engagement, including publicity from a 501(c)3 group around a public policy moment.
Information on financing
- Grant proposals of up to US$ 20,000 will be analysed on a monthly basis.
- Project duration - 6 months
Eligibility Criteria
- As long as you are affiliated with a non-profit public charity (or equivalent in your country of residence), you are eligible to apply for funding.
- They do not provide emergency funding through the ROC Grants programme.
- The ROC Grants programme only provides grants to applicants who have public charity status.
- They do not award grants to support thesis projects.
- Although your project may have been rejected previously, you can resubmit an application for funding at any time.
- They do not provide funding in support of previously approved grants and cannot provide ongoing funding for any projects.
Evaluation Criteria
- Urgency of funding - How quickly the project needs to start for maximum effectiveness.
- Conservation Impact - Magnitude of the ecological, socio-economic and political benefit.
- Scale of Impact - Geographical area and likelihood of applicability/replication elsewhere.
- Feasibility of Implementation - Based on the socio-economic and public policy context.
- Organisational Capacity - Adequate human capital size and expertise to carry out projects.
For more information, visit https://www.waittfoundation.org/roc-grants
