Guiana Shield Facility (GSF) call for Proposal – Guyana and Suriname

GSFGeorgetown: The Guiana Shield Facility issues a Call for Proposals in Guyana and Suriname with overall financial support of USD$125,000 for the implementation period September 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014.

In Guyana the focus of the proposals should be on “Aligning community MRV to national MRV for REDD+ readiness”, which is aimed at aligning community monitoring, reporting and verification (cMRV) system with the ongoing national MRV (nMRV) system, so that the cMRV activities may be integrated into the national framework for REDD+ readiness.

In Suriname the proposals focus should be “Horizontal knowledge transfer on REDD+ to indigenous and tribal communities”, which is aimed at developing toolkits to train and inform indigenous and tribal communities about the REDD+ concept using horizontal knowledge transfer methodologies.

The Call for Proposals is in keeping with the Guiana Shield Facility overall objective to promote and support the conservation and sustainable development of the Guiana Shield eco-region. Further, GSF acknowledges the contributions of civil society organizations towards this objective and hereby open the call to include private sector and community based organization, Universities and Research institutions within Guyana and Suriname.

Organizations that wish to submit a proposal to the GSF must have evidence that they are registered as a not-for-profit organization with a Guiana Shield Country, should be in existence for at least three years, demonstrated commitment to conservation and sustainable development, should not be affiliated to any political party, have managed similar or related projects and demonstrated commitment and / or capacity to mainstream gender and other cross-cutting issues in their substantive and institutional initiatives.

Moreover, the accepted proposals are to be implemented directly by the applicants and the scope of work to be funded must cover national and regional environmental priorities, sustainable financing, exchange of information and capacity building.