Save The Tiger Fund – 2008 Request for Proposals
Special Note: The
Foundation will inform applicants of their status in May 2008.
The National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation (NFWF) requests the submission of proposals to the Save The
Tiger Fund (STF). STF sponsors effective efforts to enable wild
tigers to recover and flourish, while empowering local people to live in
balance with natural resources and receive tangible benefits from
conservation practices whenever possible. We seek to stop the killing of
wild tigers by addressing both demand and supply factors, such as the
illegal trade in tiger products. Visit www.savethetigerfund.org
to find out more about us.
Priority Conservation Projects
STF is focusing its investments in
conservation of large landscapes and restoring key corridors to connect
fragmented tiger populations through collaborative projects. We are
seeking projects in the following tiger conservation landscapes (TCL) as
outlined in the document: Setting Priorities for the Conservation and
Recovery of Wild Tigers: 2005-2015 available at: www.tigermaps.org:
- Russian Far East landscape of Russia
and China(TCL 1&2),
- Terai Arc Landscape of India and Nepal
(TCL 40-46),
- Western Ghats Landscape of India (TCL
64-70),
- Leuser Landscape (TCL 14); and Central
Sumatran Forest of Indonesia (TCL 5-9)
- Taman Negara – Belum Landscape of
Malaysia (TCL 16)
Successful proposals will consist of
grants ranging from $20,000 to $150,000 operating on 1-3 year timeframes
that have measurable outcomes related to stabilizing or increasing tiger
populations in the targeted landscapes. Applicants are encouraged to
develop proposals that enhance collaboration by engaging local
stakeholders in developing a comprehensive vision for sustaining wild
tiger populations in each landscape and improving connectivity within
and between landscapes. Such proposals should use the relative
strengths of the applicant’s organization, establish sound
monitoring protocols and estimate tiger populations at the
landscape-level, and incorporate adaptive management principles to
mitigate threats to tiger populations. STF plans to increase its
investment levels in other tiger conservation landscapes in the future
as funding becomes available.
The specific goals of Save The
Tiger Fund in these five landscapes are to:
- Establish and secure large tiger
habitats
- Stabilize or increase tiger populations
in priority landscapes
- Develop landscape-level conservation
vision for each tiger landscapes that has buy-in from governments, local
communities, non-government organizations (NGOs), other donor partners
and development agencies for synergy and leverage in funding for other
related conservation projects.
- Obtain reserve status for areas with
unprotected breeding tiger populations embedded in the matrix of larger
landscapes.
- Expand the range of breeding tigers in
priority tiger conservation landscapes.
- Establish baseline information on tiger
and prey populations, and habitat in the landscape with a follow up
monitoring system.
- Identify critical corridor gaps in the
landscapes and implement necessary conservation interventions for
re-establishing connectivity.
- Mitigate prime threats in each tiger
conservation landscape.
Funding for Other Tiger Conservation Projects
STF will also consider 1-year proposals
aimed at reducing tiger trade in the $20,000 - $50,000 range and smaller
landscape grant proposals between $15,000 - $30,000 from tiger
conservation priority landscapes not mentioned above, but outlined in
the Setting Priorities for the Conservation and Recovery of Wild Tigers:
2005-2015 available at: www.tigermaps.org.
These grants should demonstrate innovation and excellence in the field
of tiger conservation, capacity building, grooming future tiger
conservation leadership, tackling tiger poaching and trade, reducing
human-tiger conflict, mainstreaming tiger conservation into national and
regional development plans or determining the conservation status of
tigers in TCLs.
Evaluation
Save The Tiger Fund will conduct an
on-going meta-evaluation of the program to collect information on the
following indicators: tiger population estimates (No. per 100
km2), prey abundance (No. per km2), suitable tiger
habitat area (ha) or critical corridors (ha) restored. We are interested
in proposals that include specific indicators similar to these that are
measurable and have direct implications to tiger conservation in the
logic framework. For further evaluation guidance see:
http://www.nfwf.org/evaluation. Save The Tiger Fund invites all applicants to
read the results of its evaluation of grants
from 1995-2004 and use the
findings of that evaluation to inform the development of their logic
framework models.
The Save The Tiger Fund will not fund:
Lobbying or litigation activities;
Captive tiger projects that are not part of the approved Species
Survival Plan;
Captive tiger projects that do not have a strong link to in situ
conservation efforts;
General administrative overhead of sponsoring agency;
Genetic studies without direct implications for tiger
conservation.
Application
Regular STF grantees please note that we will have only one grant slate in
2008, so please get your pre-proposals together now. To apply,
please fill out the on-line pre-proposal application form found
at http://collective.nfwf.org/pre-proposal/Preproposal.php. The deadline for submission of pre-proposals
is November 5th, 2007.
Full proposals will be invited for on-line submission upon successful
selection of pre-proposals by December 4th,
2007. The deadline for full proposals for STF projects
is January 21st, 2007. The Foundation will
inform applicants of their status in May 2008.
Additional
Questions
Please review these guidelines carefully.
For additional questions or assistance with developing logic frameworks,
please contact brian.gratwicke[at]nfwf.org
Next RFP
deadline
We anticipate that the next request for
proposals will go out in mid-September 2008, please check this website
occasionally or email brian.gratwicke[at]nfwf.org to ensure that you are
on the RFP distribution list.
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