Applications Invited for Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Grant

Organization: Lllegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund

Apply By: 22 Aug 2022

Grant Amount: 600000 Pound

About the Organization

The UK government is committed to tackling the illegal wildlife trade. The Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund provides financial support to practical projects around the world which are:

• reducing demand for IWT products
• ensuring effective legal frameworks and deterrents
• strengthening law enforcement
• developing sustainable livelihoods to benefit people directly affected by IWT

The illegal wildlife trade is a criminal industry worth more than £17 billion each year threatening both wildlife and people.

The Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund (IWTCF) has committed £37m to 113 projects around the world, in over 50 countries, since 2014.

About the Grant

Round 9 of the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund (IWTCF) includes the following schemes:

IWTCF Extra: £600,000 – £1,500,000

• Extra grants are for projects aimed at expanding activities that have already demonstrated success and impact at a smaller scale. This can be through landscape or replication scaling, or through delivering systems change which will have sustained impact beyond the project’s original scale.
• Once you have read the guidance, complete the IWTCF Extra Round 9 – Stage 1 application form on the Flexi-Grant application portal. For drafting purposes, you may find the IWTCF Extra – Stage 1 application form useful.
• If you are invited to Stage 2 you will be asked to complete the Stage 2 application form on the Flexi-Grant portal. For drafting purposes, you may find the IWTCF Extra Round 9 – Stage 2 application form useful.

IWTCF Main: £75,000 – £600,000

• Main grants are expected to deliver strong results to tackle IWT and poverty reduction based on good evidence, and strongly demonstrate the potential to scale. Main grants will be awarded to projects which test new and innovative interventions to provide proof of concept at a smaller scale.
• Once you have read the guidance, complete the IWTCF Main Round 9 – Stage 1 application form on the Flexi-Grant application portal. For drafting purposes, you may find the IWTCF Main – Stage 1 application form useful.
• If you are invited to Stage 2 you will be asked to complete the Stage 2 application form on the Flexi-Grant portal. For drafting purposes, you may find the IWTCF Main Round 9 – Stage 2 application form useful.

IWTCF Evidence: £20,000 – £100,000

• Evidence grants are for projects which gather evidence to design an intervention. Applications should describe how the improved evidence base will be used to design an intervention where there is a gap in approaches. Projects may include, for example, market research to design and baseline demand reduction interventions. Applicants are encouraged to develop evidence projects into full interventions as part of follow-on applications to the IWT Challenge Fund.
• Once you have read the guidance, complete the IWTCF Evidence Round 9 – Stage 1 application form on the Flexi-Grant application portal. For drafting purposes, you may find the IWTCF Evidence – Stage 1 application form useful.
• If you are invited to Stage 2 you will be asked to complete the Stage 2 application form on the Flexi-Grant portal. For drafting purposes, you may find the IWTCF Evidence Round 9 – Stage 2 application form useful.

How to Apply

All schemes under Round 9 are currently open.

There is a two-stage application process for all Round 9 projects.

The timetable for Round 9 is:

• Call for Stage 1 applications: Thursday 29 June 2022
• Deadline for Stage 1 applications: Monday 22 August 2022
• Expected outcome of Stage 1 and notifications of applicants invited to Stage 2: early November 2022
• Deadline for Stage 2 applications (by invitation only): Monday 19 December 2022
• Expected notification of successful projects: March 2023
• Expected start date for successful projects: April 2023

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