WWF Nedbank Green Trust Funding has been announced. This year’s funding is for Environmental Projects in South Africa.
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust is offering grants to innovative projects that help solve some of the biggest social and environmental challenges in South Africa.
The Trust funds organizations that are developing innovative and transferable solutions in partnership networks that have the potential to catalyze (ignite and enable) change in South Africa from an undesired state to a desired state as defined by the Trust strategy.
Therefore, all applicants must have a clear theory of change/change logic for the proposed solution relative to other actors and the Trust strategy.
Objectives Of The WWF Nedbank Green Trust Funding 2024
To promote the conservation of nature and ecological processes through the preservation of genetic, species and ecosystem diversity, through ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable and through the promotion of actions aimed at reducing to minimize pollution and wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy.
Eligibility Criteria
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust is interested in projects that offer:
- Differentiated or unique ways to unlock a stuck problem
- Tangible impacts and outcomes based on agreed change logic
- Scaling, catalytic, potential: Viability (impact beyond funding period), future funding, demand for the solution, scaling mechanism
- Environmental outcomes contribution as guided by the WWF Strategy
- Relevance to significant social issues
- people-centred solutions
- Gender considered solutions
- Visibility potential
- Evidence of support from the receiving environment (letters of support)
- WWF Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework
What Do They not Fund?
The Green Trust Will Not Normally Consider Support For:
- Solutions with no potential that are not different or unique and do not unlock a stuck problem
- Solutions that have no scaling potential (not catalytic)
- Profit-generating organizations that will gain a competitive advantage through the Trust funding
- Conduit organizations are not the end users of the project funds.
- Initiatives which focus on ex-situ conservation activities with little implications for wild populations, e.g. captive breeding, rehabilitation or welfare of individuals.
- Core support for organizations and the purchase of capital equipment, including buildings, fencing and vehicles.
- Salaries, except as an integral part of a Green Trust-supported project.
- Socio-economic development projects without a core environmental outcome.
- Production of books, videos or films, except as an integral part of a Green Trust-supported project.
- Attendance at and travel to workshops, conferences and symposia or the costs associated with convening these events, independent of existing Green Trust-supported projects.
- Individual bursaries and scholarships, independent of existing Green Trust-supported projects.
- Expeditions and eco-trips, such as overland trips to raise awareness or funds for conservation.
- Advertising campaigns.
- Academic studies are not a significant contribution to an environmental outcomes solution.
How To Apply For The WWF Nedbank Green Trust Funding 2024
When applying for funding, applicants must motivate how their project will enable this strategy, meet the funding criteria and deliver on the environmental outcomes. Please note that proposals that do not significantly contribute to the strategic outcomes of the WWF Nedbank Green Trust, as set out in the funding guidelines document, will not be considered for funding. Please read the funding guidelines document carefully and only submit your project if it fits that criteria.
Projects are funded for a maximum of three years with the option to extend it under exceptional conditions. In such instances, applicants must have a viable sustainability plan.
Deadline: 7-Dec-22
For more information on applying, visit the link below.
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SEE ALSO: Eco-generation Program 2024
ABOUT THE TRUST
The WWF Nedbank Green Trust was established by the Trustees in 1990 in order to promote the conservation of nature and ecological processes. Nedbank was the first and, subsequently, only funder for the Trust. WWF was appointed as the Trust’s management agency and subsequently the Trust’s environmental outcomes strategist. The Trust has planned to achieve its mission through “…the preservation of genetic, species and ecosystem diversity; by ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and by promoting actions aimed at reducing, to the absolute minimum, pollution and the wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy”. Since 1990, the WWF Nedbank Green Trust has invested more than R300 million in various catalytic conservation projects, which have grown to a scale that has had a significant impact on the environmental health and wealth of South Africa.
The Trust has grown and evolved in response to the priority conservation areas identified and the need to ensure the Trust’s financial sustainability. In February 2013, the Trust adapted its funding focus in order to remain relevant in the face of the new challenges in the environmental conservation and conservation funding opportunities in South Africa. The WWF Nedbank Green Trust welcomes all organizations aligned to its strategy to partner with the Trust to achieve its vision of igniting new ways for people and nature to thrive.
In 2024, WWF embarked on a process of sharpening its strategic intent and renewing its focus on delivering the 2025 outcomes. This guideline has been adapted based on this renewed focus.
