Apply: GBIF Biodiversity Development Programme

Deadline: 27 August, 2020

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is receiving proposals from sub-Saharan Africa for the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) Programme funded by the directorate-general for international partnerships of the European Union.

The BID programme aims to enhance capacity for effective mobilisation and use of biodiversity data in support of decision and policymaking for sustainable development.

This call seeks to support projects from sub-Saharan Africa that mobilise biodiversity data relevant to decisions supporting sustainable development, use and extend best practices for digitising natural history collections and mobilising other biodiversity data, apply biodiversity data in support of decision-making and research, and develop lasting national, regional or thematic networks to support ongoing data sharing and reuse.

Benefits

  • The total funding assigned to this call is approximately €600,000

Eligibility

  • Concept notes and full proposals must be submitted in English through the GBIF grants portal by the stated deadlines
  • Applicants must be legal entities – such as national government agencies, GBIF Participant nodes and their host institutions, natural history museums and collections, research institutes, universities, and NGOs – located in an eligible African countries
  • Applications involving partners from countries or organisations that already participate in GBIF must include a statement of endorsement from the GBIF head of delegation or node manager
  • Data mobilised by BID-funded projects should all be within the target countries
  • Fieldwork and/or the collection of new field data, or laboratory research to capture new data are not eligible for funding under the BID programme, although such activities may be included in a project plan if funded by alternative sources
  • Applicants must commit some co-funding to their projects
  • All proposed project activities must fall within the stated implementation periods for each grant type
  • If invited to submit a full proposal, applicants must prepare a detailed budget
  • If invited to submit a full project proposal, written confirmation from all project partners, stating their involvement in the project, must be provided with the submission
  • Letters of support from confirmed project partners should be submitted through the GBIF grants portal
  • All data mobilised through the BID grants, as well as any other products of the projects, such as training material, must be made available under either a CC0 1.0 waiver or CC-BY 4.0 licence

To apply and for more information, click here.

Photo source: Dominique Watbled

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