Conservation Leadership Awards

Deadline 6th November 2008

The Conservation Leadership Programme offers continuation funding, which is available only to previous CLP (and formally BPCP) award winners, in the form of Conservation Follow-up and Conservation Leadership Awards. Applications for continuation funding will only be considered once a full report has been received for the initial projects.

The idea of the Conservation Leadership Award is to enable teams that have been supported in the past to consolidate (or connect together) their previous project successes by creating something longer-term, which is more practical and conservation oriented than research oriented. These awards aim to provide more substantial resources to first-rate innovative and original projects that build long-term capacity for conservation in the project area, whilst offering the team valuable developmental experience.

Future Conservationist and Conservation Follow-up Awardees are both eligible to apply for Conservation Leadership Awards - first-time award winners that haven't received a Conservation Follow-up Award will need to show that they have gone through the process of building on their initial work, most likely over a number of years, with the support of other resources. Two awards are offered per year, each up to $50,000 USD.

As part of the award, one member from each team is selected to represent their project at the CLP's international training course and the annual Society for Conservation Biology meeting. The training is aimed at developing innovative project management, education, facilitation and communication skills. Attendance at the annual Society for Conservation Biology Meeting enables participants to link to a strong, professional network, facilitating future international collaboration.

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To apply for a 2009 Conservation Leadership Award, project teams must submit a completed application form in English to the CLP by 6th November 2008. The 2009 guidelines and application form for this continuation award are found here.

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