[Coral-List] Reminder: 2008 NOAA International Coral Reef Grants
Eileen Alicea
Eileen.Alicea at noaa.gov
Tue Oct 16 14:20:37 EDT 2007
NOAA International Coral Reef Grants Announcement for Fiscal Year '08
projects: Published July 4, 2007 in Grants.gov
The NOAA International Coral Reef Conservation Grant Program, as
authorized under the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, provides
matching grants of financial assistance for international coral reef
conservation projects. The Program solicits proposals under four funding
categories:
1) Promote Watershed Management in the Wider Caribbean, Brazil, and Bermuda;
2) Regional Enhancement of Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness;
3) Encourage the Development of National Networks of Marine Protected
Areas in the Wider Caribbean, Bermuda, Brazil, Southeast Asia, and the
South Pacific; and
4) Promote Regional Socio-Economic Training and Monitoring in Coral Reef
Management in the Wider Caribbean, Brazil, Bermuda, the Western Indian
Ocean, the Red Sea, the South Pacific, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Each funding category has specific applicant and project eligibility
criteria.
Pre-applications must be received by NOAA by 11:59 p.m., U.S. Eastern
Time, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. Pre-applications are NOT to be submitted
through Grants.gov. Please read the detailed directions in the full
Federal Funding Opportunity.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants include all international, governmental (except U.S.
federal agencies), and non-governmental organizations. For specific
country eligibility per category, please refer to individual category
descriptions in Section V. of the Federal Funding Opportunity. The
proposed work must be conducted at a non-U.S. site. Eligible countries
are defined as follows: The Wider Caribbean includes the 37 States and
territories that border the marine environment of the Gulf of Mexico,
the Caribbean Sea, and the areas of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent thereto,
and Brazil and Bermuda, but excluding areas under U.S. jurisdiction. The
South Pacific Region includes South Pacific Regional Environment
Programs Pacific island countries and territories, including the
Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, and the Republic of
the Marshall Islands, but excluding U.S. territories and four developed
country members. South Asia includes India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives,
Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Southeast Asia Region includes Brunei,
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand,
and Vietnam. The Western Indian Ocean Region includes Comoros, France
(La Reunion), Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, the
United Republic of Tanzania, and South Africa. The Red Sea Region
includes five member countries of the Regional Organization for the
Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
(PERSGA): Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.
Projects previously funded under this Program are not eligible for
follow up pre-applications unless they have been completed per the grant
agreement.
The Federal Funding Opportunity contains all details regarding criteria
for each category, pre-application format, funding amounts, etc. Please
log on to www.grants.gov and do a Basic Search for Opportunity #
NOS-IPO-2008-2001058. For further information, please write to
international.coral.grants at noaa.gov
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