Applications Invited for the Darwin Initiative

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About the Organization

The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps conserve biodiversity and support the communities that live alongside it through locally led projects worldwide. It is one of the Biodiversity Challenge Funds (BCFs) – the collective name for three of the UK Government's competitive grants that also includes the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund and Darwin Plus, aimed at conserving biodiversity and safeguarding the environment for local people.

Successful Darwin Initiative projects are likely to include:

• delivering outputs that will achieve both biodiversity conservation and multidimensional poverty reduction
• demonstrated an understanding of GESI within their context, and effectively reflected this in their approach to deliver sustained outcomes
• enhancing the capability and capacity of national and local partners and stakeholders, to help ensure a project’s long-term legacy
• strengthening, promotion and use of evidence to inform and scale the action
• the implementation of a novel or significantly improved approach
• scalable approaches that have the potential to deliver greater impact

Since 1993, the Darwin Initiative has awarded over £230m to more than 1,275 projects across 159 countries.

About the Grant

The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps conserve biodiversity and support the communities that live alongside it through locally led projects worldwide.

Funding Schemes:

• Darwin Initiative Extra grants, ranging from £800,000 to £5 million, are intended for projects that are on a clear scaling pathway: building on good evidence from smaller projects and demonstrating the potential to scale further by completion, delivering strong results for biodiversity conservation and multidimensional poverty reduction within its lifetime. Projects should last between 2 to 5 years maximum.
• Darwin Initiative Main grants, ranging from £100,000 to £800,000, are expected to deliver strong results for biodiversity conservation and multidimensional poverty reduction based on good evidence, and strongly demonstrate the potential to scale further. Projects should last between 1 to 5 years maximum.
• Darwin Initiative Innovation grants, ranging from £10,000 to £200,000, are aimed at projects intending to test and evaluate novel approaches that, if proven, could scale to deliver results for biodiversity conservation and multidimensional poverty reduction. Projects should last between 1 to 2 years maximum.
• Darwin Initiative Capability & Capacity grants, ranging from £50,000 to £200,000, are for projects that focus on developing the capability and capacity of identified local and national and local organisations (civil society, research institutes and public bodies) to efficiently deliver effective and successful biodiversity conservation - multidimensional poverty reduction projects. Projects should last 1 to 2 years maximum.

How to Apply

Round 31 of the Darwin Initiative includes the following schemes:

• Darwin Initiative Extra
• Single stage – now open – deadline Monday 16th September 2024
• Shortlisted applications will be invited to interview (remote): Monday 13th – Friday 17th January 2025
• Darwin Initiative Main
• Stage 1 – now open – deadline Monday 8th July 2024
• Stage 2 – by invite only – deadline Monday 2nd December 2024
• Darwin Initiative Innovation – now open – deadline Monday 21st October 2024
• Darwin Initiative Capability & Capacity – now open – deadline Monday 21st October 2024

Round 31 Guidance for applicants

All applications should be submitted via the Flexi-Grant application portal.

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