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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.

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

Colombia, as an upper middle income country, is among the eligible countries for these schemes. 

Round 31 of the Darwin Initiative includes the following funding schemes:

• Darwin Initiative Extra

Darwin Initiative Extra will provide grants between £800,000 and £5 million, for projects that are on a clear scaling pathway: building on good evidence from previous Biodiversity Challenge Funds projects and demonstrating the potential to scale further by completion and delivering strong results for biodiversity conservation and multidimensional poverty reduction. Darwin Initiative Extra projects should last between 2 to 5 years maximum.

• • Single stage – now open – deadline Monday 16 September 2024

  • Shortlisted applications will be invited to interview (remote): Monday 13th – Friday 17th January 2025

• Darwin Initiative Main

  • Stage 1 – closed – deadline Monday 8 July 2024

  • Stage 2 – by invite only – deadline Monday 2 December 2024

• Darwin Initiative Innovation – now open – deadline Monday 21 October 2024

Darwin Initiative Innovation welcomes applications for projects between £10,000 to £200,000. Innovation is 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 – now open – deadline Monday 21 October 2024

Darwin Initiative Capability & Capacity welcomes applications for projects between £50,000 and £200,000. Projects should focus on developing the capability and capacity of national and local organisations to efficiently deliver effective and successful biodiversity conservation - multidimensional poverty reduction projects. Projects should last between 1 to 2 years maximum.

Applicants from Colombia may access the recording of the Darwin Initiative presentation by APC Colombia held 22 August 2024 (in Spanish)

 Further information: website of the Darwin Initiative; BCF-Darwin@niras.com; convocatorias@apccolombia.gov.co (for Colombian applicants, up to 30 September 2024)

La Vicerrectoría de Investigación no tiene más información acerca de esta actividad distinta a la publicada en los enlaces de esta nota.

[Boletín SIUN 692, 5/6 de septiembre de 2024]