ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Applicants must meet all the following criteria to be eligible.
- Your organization must be legally registered in an eligible country.
- Your organization must submit all required documents by the application deadline (March 30, 2024).
Restoration Project:
Your organization must conduct forest landscape restoration and reforestation activities in a WWF-US priority area.
- Your organization must plant 10,000 or more native tree species.
- The proposed project must include an active learning, practical skill component, or field-based learning activity that strengthen skills and knowledge of local stakeholders as part of the project activities.
WWF will provide special consideration to proposals that:
- are locally led
- support forest and landscape restoration activities in the broader landscape context beyond the project intervention sites (for example, through connectivity, downstream ecosystem service recovery, or others)
- insert into wider efforts of addressing drivers of deforestation
- focus on conservation of biodiversity and habitats including perspectives for scaling impact
- consider opportunities of restoration for livelihood diversification, including training and hiring local people for restoration or developing agroforestry systems, among others
- include consideration of gender equity in implementation and impact
- build on partnership and active engagement with local communities
- emphasize on enhancing local expertise, skills, and knowledge
Please review all our eligibility guidelines here