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Darwin Plus: Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund (14 UKOTs…
Darwin Plus: Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund
Aim
Deliver long-term strategic outcomes for the natural environment in the UK’s Overseas Territories (OTs).
Help protect biodiversity - delicate and complex ecosystems and habitats- globally significant
Deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 15 (life on land) and SDG14 (life below water)
Project Scope
Working on environment or climate change issues in the UKOTs
New ideas or build on existing work. Must demonstrate that the project's real value to the host UKOT(s) by meeting clearly identifiable needs and priorities
Promote gender equality
At minimum ensure proposals will not increase inequality
Design interventions that proactively contribute to increased equality
Value for money and leaving a legacy
Supporting wider Monitoring and Evaluation
Not funded
UKOT government’s core functions (such as full-time staff salaries or routine management activities)
Work where the main focus is built heritage
Ongoing maintenance of habitats or protection of specie
Building activity or investment in infrastructure and related capital expenditur
Long-term research
Key Priorities
Delivering a Blue Belt of marine protection around the OT
Implementing National Biodiversity Action Plans
Responding to, and mitigating against, the impacts of natural disasters on the OTs
Waste management strategies, particularly those with a focus on plastics
Conservation, restoration and wise use of wetland
Dealing with invasive non-native species
Pursue new and innovative approaches that could be “game-changing”, and/or which have strong potential to be replicable elsewhere, particularly at larger scale
Involve partnerships in order to provide greater capability for the partners involved to deliver environmental projects
Aim to test or pilot an approach or idea that has the potential to be developed into a larger project in future
Incorporate the use of natural capital
Projects
No min or max limit but projects over £300K pa are unlikely to be funded.
Shorter projects, with relatively small budgets, are just as likely to succeed in the assessment process
Budgets are allocated by financial year
14 UKOTs
• Anguilla
• Bermuda
• British Antarctic Territory (BAT)
• British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT)
• British Virgin Islands (BVI)
• Cayman Islands
• Falkland Islands (FI)
• Gibraltar
• Montserrat
• Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie & Oeno Islands
• St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
• South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI)
• Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (on Cyprus)
• Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI)
Eligibility
Eligible as research institution
Defra will fund actual direct project costs plus reasonable and justifiable overheads related to the project.
Key Dates
Applications received by 3 September 2018.
Start on or after 1 April 2019
Ensure their budget commitments end by 31 March 2022.
Link
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/darwin-plus-applying-for-projects-in-uk-overseas-territories