Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa: Indian Ocean Islands of the United Republic of Tanzania

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Children sitting on a fishing boat, Zanzibar.

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© brytta

Pending Grant Program

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) has received funding from the European Union, via l’Agence Française de Développement, as part of the Africa, Caribbean, Pacific Small Island Developing States (ACP-SIDS) program, to support civil society organizations in the United Republic of Tanzania’s offshore islands in the Indian Ocean, focused on Unguja, Pemba, Mafia and related islets. CEPF will award a total of US$850,000 in grants for a period of roughly January 2025 – December 2027. The program design provides all relevant details. Grants will support ecosystem-system based adaptation (EbA) approaches; that is, efforts that use biodiversity and ecosystem services to reduce vulnerability and build resilience to climate change. Grants will focus on terrestrial and marine key biodiversity areas per the logical framework included in the program design.

Call for Letters of Inquiry

CEPF will release a call for letters of inquiry (LOIs) on its website, here, on or about 24 July with an approximate deadline six weeks later. The call for LOIs will provide all relevant information to interested parties. CEPF uses a two-part process to award grants. Applicants submit relatively simple LOIs. An evaluation committee will review these to create a shortlist. Shortlisted groups will then be invited to submit detailed proposals over the ensuing several weeks. All LOIs, proposals, and subsequent reporting are done via CEPF’s grantmaking website, ConservationGrants.

Information Sessions

The CEPF Grant Director will hold electronic-video information sessions for interested parties on the dates and times and via the links below. Each session will be for one hour. The sessions will be identical, and the sessions will be recorded and posted to this website. During the session, the Grant Director will (1) introduce CEPF, (2) discuss the program design, (3) introduce ConservationGrants and the LOI template, and (4) explain the relationship between the program design and the LOI template as the basis for submitting a competitive proposal. There is no requirement to attend either information session in order to submit a LOI.

Session 1
Date: Tuesday 23 July, 2024
Time: 8:30 Washington DC time (UTC-4) / 15:30 Tanzania time (UTC+3) / 12:30 GMT (UTC+0) 
Zoom Link: Click Here
Zoom Meeting ID: 861 6024 4858
Zoom Passcode: 248159

Session 2
Date: Friday 26 July, 2024
Time: 6:00 Washington DC time (UTC-4) / 13:00 Tanzania time (UTC+3) / 10:00  GMT (UTC+0)
Zoom Link: Click Here
Zoom Meeting ID: 846 9337 5111
Zoom Passcode: 496899

Materials

Final Program Design
- English (PDF - 265 KB)

Applicant Introduction: Investment in the Indian Ocean Islands of Tanzania
- Video (96 MB)
- PDF (4.2 MB)

Applicant Outreach Session
- Video (97 MB)