Communities>Partners>Conservation Organisations>Guardian>Guardian will fund
Guardian will fund:
- Projects in nationally, regionally or community designated protected areas or their formally defined buffer zone.
- Proposals for specifically defined educational, scientific, infrastructural, or administrative projects with a clear and measurable impact in fostering suatained or improved conservation in the designated protected area.
Communities>Partners>Conservation Organisations>Guardian>Guardian will not fund
Guardian will not fund:
Work towards the designation of, or land purchase for, new protected areas,our mission focuses entirely on already designated Protected areas. Once designated and legally recognised even new protected areas are eligible for funding
University, school or college feesincluding for masters, PhDs etc. Whilstwe may support conservation relevant PhD research we would only cover the costsassociated with fieldwork and outreach and then only for projects that haveclear conservation outcomes.
Activities within a park that do not already have endorsement and permissions by the relevant administrative parks authority.
Work in privately owned nature reserves.
Communities>Partners>Conservation Organisations>Guardian>The funding process
The funding process (open park funds):
Implementing agencies (government parksauthorities, national and regional NGOs and community organisations) can bid tothe park-based and national funds for projects focusing on sustainingconservation through information and infrastructural improvements, povertyalleviation, education and development in and around the parks. These bids are vetted by HP's board of trustees on the basis of the following criteria:
- credibility and reputation of the bidding organisation,
- demonstrated capacity of the bidding organisation to carry out the work,
- previous track record of the bidding organisation with HP Guardian,
- likelihood that the bid will have a significant impact on conservation in the park
- likelihood that the bid will have a positive impact on livelihoods, poverty reduction and sustainable development of local communities,
- likelihood that the bid will be of interest to Guardians
- value for money represented by the bid
Successful bids are published in our Guardian system and Guardians and potential Guardians view these bids online and can votefor particular bids over others. Fundingrounds take place annually as follows:
January : Africa
April : Americas
July : Asia
September : Europe
December : Oceania, Greenland and Antarctica
Communities>Partners>Conservation Organisations>Guardian>Project renewal
Project renewal (open park funds):
Funding is long term and renewable annually depending on the resources available (the number Guardians who continue to support the park) and progress made in the project. The work of implementing organisations israpid-audited by other implementing organisations working in the region. All activity is carried out online through aseries of forms interacting with a central database and is intended to be lowmaintenance on the part of HP and the implementing organisations. Implementing organisations report progress back to donors annually using our Google-powered system. This way the donors continue to manage theuse of their funds for conservation and remain engaged with their park and havea role in sustaining it for future generations. Our aim is to encourage individuals to take responsibility for theprotection of parcels of land in perpetuity.
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