[CDHC] NOAA International Coral Conservation Grants
Cheryl Woodley
Cheryl.Woodley at noaa.gov
Thu Nov 20 11:24:52 EST 2003
Good Morning CDHC Members,
I am forwarding you this RFP notification for international coral
research incase you haven't seen it yet.
Cheryl Woodley
>From: "Eileen Alicea" <Eileen.Alicea at noaa.gov>
>Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:18:14 -0500
>Subject: [WCEN] NOAA International Coral Conservation Grants
>
>NOAA International Coral Conservation Grants
>
>An opportunity for funding of international
>coral reef projects is now available through
>NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Grant Program,
>which was published in the Federal
>government grants
>website on Tuesday, July 2, 2003. Applications
>for funding are DUE TO NOAA on March
>12, 2004.
>
>The Fiscal Year 2004 Federal Funding Opportunity
>provides specific information on the
>eligibility, proposal content, etc., for each of
>the four international coral conservation project
>categories included in this year's funding. To
>access the PDF file of this Federal Funding
>Opportunity, please go to http://ipo.nos.noaa.gov/coralgrants.html.
>
>Eligible Applicants
>Eligible applicants include all international,
>governmental, and non-governmental organizations,
>including the Federated States of Micronesia,
>Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the
>Marshall Islands. Eligibility is also contingent
>upon whether activities undertaken with respect
>to the application would be consistent with any
>applicable conditions or restrictions imposed
>by the U.S. government.
>
>The International Grant Program has four project categories:
>
>1. Promote Watershed Management in Wider
>Caribbean small island communities excluding
>the Mesoamerican coral reef corridor: : The
>National Action Plan encourages the U.S. to
>"provide
>assistance in managing and conserving reef
>ecosystems and their watersheds." Further, the
>U.S. and its partners are launching the White
>Water to Blue Water Initiative presented at the
>World Summit on Sustainable Development. This
>Partnership emphasizes a cross-sectoral
>approach to marine resources management
>beginning with the upstream watershed and
>extending to the adjacent marine environment,
>including coral ecosystems. It is intended to
>help implement international agreements and
>programs, for example, the Barbados
>Programme of Action for the Sustainable
>Development of Small Island Developing States,
>The
>Convention for the Protection and Development of
>the Marine Environment of the Wider
>Caribbean Region (the Cartagena Convention) and
>its three protocols (including The Protocol
>concerning Pollution from Land-based Sources and
>Activities), and the International Coral
>Reef Initiative. Therefore, IPO
>will fund activities that implement best
>management practices that reduce or control
>runoff to
>near shore coral reef ecosystems in the Wider
>Caribbean; assess effectiveness of these
>management practices; engage stakeholders and
>government agencies in collaborative
>partnerships to implement these practices; and
>recommend a set of best management practices
>that can be applied to small island Caribbean systems.
>
>2. Enhance Management Effectiveness of Marine
>Protected Areas (MPAs): The "National
>Action Plan" calls for strengthening the
>protection of resources within existing MPAs.
>NOAA
>has launched a strategic partnership with the
>World Conservation Union÷s (IUCN) World
>Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and World
>Wildlife Fund (WWF) International to
>improve the management of MPAs by providing
>managers, planners and other decision
>makers with methods for assessing the
>effectiveness of MPA sites. Therefore, IPO will
>fund
>activities at coral MPA sites that are building
>an adaptive management and evaluation program
>and will conduct an assessment of management
>effectiveness in order to strengthen and
>achieve the
>site goals and objectives. The first subcategory
>of the Management Effectiveness category will
>emphasize single site projects and the second
>subcategory will emphasize regional capacity
>building in the WCPA-Marine/WWF methodology.
>Project must incorporate the approach
>being developed by the WCPA-Marine/WWF
>International MPA Management Effectiveness
>Initiative. The approach can be found in the
>working draft of How is Your MPA Doing?
>Guidebook for Evaluating Effectiveness of MPA's
>posted at http://effectiveMPA.noaa.gov.
>
>3. Encourage Regional Approaches to Further
>No-Take Marine Reserves in the Wider
>Caribbean and Southeast Asia: The "National
>Action Plan" highlights the role that highly
>protected areas play in creating a network of
>coral marine protected areas for biodiversity,
>conservation and sustainable fisheries
>management. Through this program, IPO will fund
>regional level activities that benefit existing
>or proposed marine reserve networks of 2 or more
>sites in one or more countries in the Wider
>Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Preference will be
>given to projects that involve 2 or more
>countries. However, funds awarded to the project
>through this announcement may not be allocated
>for work at a U.S. site. Southeast Asia shall
>be defined by Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
>Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand,
>and Vietnam. Furthermore, proposed regional
>level activities must address the needs of
>no-take marine reserves in the regions as
>identified in the WCPA - Marine Caribbean
>Regional Enhancement Plan and the WCPA-Marine
>Southeast Asia Regional Action Plan.
>
>4. Promote Socio-Economic Monitoring in Coral
>Reef Management: The "National Action
>Plan" highlights that the human dimension is
>often overlooked in developing coral reef
>management strategies and calls
>for measures to enhance understanding of
>stakeholder benefits and resolve important user
>conflicts. Recognizing the importance of the
>human dimension, the GCRMN published The Socioeconomic Manual for
Coral Reef
>Management, in partnership with NOAA, WCPA, and
>the Australian Institute of Marine
>Science (AIMS), a guide to conducting
>socioeconomic assessments of reef user groups. As
>follow-up, the GCRMN, WCPA-Marine and NOAA are working with ICLARM, the
>University of West Indies and other partners in
>the regions to develop socioeconomic
>monitoring programs specific to Southeast Asia
>and the Wider Caribbean. These regional
>programs include three key phases: (1) development of SocMon, i.e.,
>standardized, simple socioeconomic monitoring
>guidelines for each region; (2) socioeconomic
>training workshops for reef managers to learn
>how to conduct SocMon, specifically how to
>establish socioeconomic monitoring programs at
>their sites; and, (3) establishment of
>socioeconomic monitoring programs at
>participants coral reef management programs.
>Under
>this project category, IPO will fund phase three
>- the establishment of socioeconomic
>monitoring programs at coral reef sites in Southeast Asia and the Wider
>Caribbean. Proposals for such work in the Wider
>Caribbean must utilize the SocMon-Wider
>Caribbean Guidelines; and similarly, proposals
>for work in Southeast Asia must utilize the
>SocMon-Southeast Asia Guidelines. For the
>purpose of this project category, Southeast Asia
>shall be defined as Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia,
>Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,
>Thailand, and Vietnam.
>
>Approximately $400,000 will be available in FY 2004 to support 8-10
grants and
>cooperative agreements under this program,
>subject to the availability of funds.
>Approximately
>$75,000-$100,000 will be allocated to each of
>the four project categories as listed below,
>with the following award ranges:
>
>a. Watershed Management: Up to $75,000
>b. Management Effectiveness:
> (1) Single site projects: $20,000-$40,000
> (2) Regional capacity building projects: $100,000
>c. Marine Reserves: $25,000 - $40,000
>d. Socio-economic Monitoring: $15,000 - $25,000
>
>For more information, please contact Eileen
>Alicea at eileen.alicea at noaa.gov or
>301-713-3078 x218.
>
>
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