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Darwin Initiative
The Darwin Initiative
is a grants programme that aims to promote biodiversity conservation
and sustainable use of resources around the world. The Initiative
is funded and administered by the UK Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, (Defra).
Objectives of the Darwin Initiative
- To assist countries rich in biodiversity but
poor in resources with the conservation of biological diversity
and implementation of the Biodiversity Convention.
- To draw on British expertise in the field of
biodiversity.
- Projects funded under the Initiative will be
collaborative, involving either local institutions or communities
in the host country.
- Projects will have a real impact on the ability
of the host country to meet its obligations under the Biodiversity
Convention.
- Projects will be of high quality and scientific
(or other appropriate professional) excellence.
- Whenever possible, Darwin funding will be used
as a catalyst to lever additional funding for project work, which
would not otherwise be forthcoming.
- The outputs and outcomes from projects should
be additional to that from work being funded through other mainstream
environmental or research programmes.
- Projects funded under the Initiative will demonstrate
good value for money.
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