Biodiverse Landscapes Fund: Stakeholder Engagement Event
The UK Government is inviting organisations interested in hearing about the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund to join the Stakeholders Engagement sessions on January 13.
The Commercial Department within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is inviting organisations interested in knowing more about DEFRA’s Biodiverse Landscapes Fund to join Stakeholder Engagement sessions on Thursday 13 January 2022.
Two identical sessions will be held, the first at 03:30-05:30 Central America (09:30-11:30GMT), the other at 08:30-10:30 Central America (14:30-16:30 GMT). Interested organisations can access this link for more information.
This event will be of particular interest to organisations with a track record of delivering high quality, large-scale projects in the interface between conservation and development. We will welcome bids from consortia and hope that this event will be helpful for organisations in forming consortia with others.
The landscapes Fund will initially target:
- Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, covering areas of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe
- Mesoamerica, covering areas of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
- Western Congo Basin, covering areas of Cameroon, Gabon and Republic of Congo
- Andes Amazon, covering areas of Ecuador and Peru
- Lower Mekong, covering areas of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
- Madagascar
Each landscape will be allocated £10m-16m over 7 years. Applications for funding will open in early-mid 2022, with projects expected to start in late 2022.