Save The
Tiger Fund - 2007 Request for Proposals
The National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) invites the submission of
proposals to the Save The Tiger Fund (STF).
STF sponsors effective
efforts to enable wild tigers to recover and flourish, while
empowering local people to live in balance with natural
resources and receive tangible benefits from conservation
practices whenever possible. We seek
to stop the killing of wild tigers by addressing both demand
and supply factors, such as the illegal trade in tiger
products that drives the killing. Visit
www.savethetigerfund.org to know more about us.
Priority Conservation Projects
STF is focusing its investments in conservation of large
landscapes and restoring key corridors to connect fragmented
tiger populations through collaborative projects. We are
seeking projects in the following tiger conservation
landscapes (TCL) as outlined in the Setting Priorities for
the Conservation and Recovery of Wild Tigers: 2005-2015
available at:
www.tigermaps.org:
Russian Far East landscape of Russia and China (TCLʼs 1&2),
Terai Arc Landscape of India and Nepal (TCLʼs 40-46),
Western Ghats Landscape of India (TCLʼs 64-70), Gunung
Leuser landscape of Indonesia (TCL 14).
Successful proposals will consist of grants ranging from
$20,000 to $150,000 operating on 1-3 year timeframes that
have measurable outcomes related to stabilizing or
increasing tiger populations in the targeted landscapes.
Applicants are encouraged to develop proposals that enhance
collaboration by engaging local stakeholders in developing a
comprehensive vision for sustaining wild tiger populations
in each landscape. Such proposals should use the relative
strengths of the applicantʼs organization, establish sound
monitoring protocols and estimate tiger populations at the
landscape-level, and incorporate adaptive management
principles to mitigate threats to tiger populations. STF
plans to increase its investment levels in other tiger
conservation landscapes in the future as funding becomes
available.
The specific priorities of Save The Tiger Fund in these four
landscapes are to:
Establish and secure large tiger habitats
Stabilize or increase tiger populations in priority
landscapes
Develop landscape-level conservation vision for each tiger
landscapes that has buy-in from governments, local
communities, non-government organizations (NGOs), other
donor partners and development agencies for synergy and
leverage in funding for other related conservation projects.
Obtain reserve status for areas with unprotected breeding
tiger populations embedded in the matrix of larger
landscapes.
Expand the range of breeding tigers in priority tiger
conservation landscapes.
Establish baseline information on tiger and prey
populations, and habitat in the landscape with a follow up
monitoring system
Identify critical corridor gaps in the landscapes and
implement necessary conservation interventions for
establishing the connectivity.
Mitigate prime threats in each tiger conservation landscape.
Funding for Other Tiger Conservation Projects STF will also
consider smaller, 1-year grants of $15,000 - $30,000 from
other tiger conservation priority landscapes not mentioned
above, but outlined in the Setting Priorities for the
Conservation and Recovery of Wild Tigers: 2005-2015
available at:
www.tigermaps.org.
These grants should demonstrate innovation and excellence in
the field of tiger conservation, build capacity, groom
future tiger conservation
leadership, tackle tiger poaching and trade, reduce
human-tiger conflict, mainstream tiger conservation into
national and regional development plans or determine the
conservation status of tigers in TCLs.
Evaluation
Save The Tiger Fund will conduct an on-going meta-evaluation
of the program to collect information on the following
indicators: tiger population estimates (No. per 100 km 2),
prey abundance (No. per km 2), suitable tiger habitat area
(ha) or critical corridors (ha) restored. We are interested
in proposals that include specific measures similar to these
that are measurable and have direct implications to tiger
conservation in the logic framework. For further evaluation
guidance
see:
http://www.nfwf.org/evaluation/index.cfm. Save The Tiger
Fund invites all applicants to read the results of its
evaluation of grants from 1995-2004
www.savethetigerfund.org/evaluation and use the findings
of that evaluation to inform the development of their logic
framework models.
The Save The Tiger Fund will not fund:
Lobbying or litigation activities;
Captive tiger projects that are not part of the approved
Species Survival Plan;
Captive tiger projects that do not have a strong link to in
situ conservation efforts;
General administrative overhead of sponsoring agency;
Genetic studies without direct implications for tiger
conservation.
Application
Regular STF Grantees please note that we will have only one
grant slate in 2007, so please get your pre-proposals
together now. To apply, please fill out the on-line
pre-proposal application form found at
https://collective.nfwf.org/pre-proposal/Preproposal.php.
The deadline for submission
of pre-proposals is
January 8 th 2007 . Full proposals will be invited
for on-line submission upon successful selection of
pre-proposals by January 26 th, 2007 .
The deadline
for full proposals for STF projects is
February 26 th,
2007. The
Foundation will inform applicants of their status by mid-
May 2007.
Additional Questions
Please review these guidelines carefully. For additional
questions about proposal development and logic frameworks,
please contact brian.gratwicke@nfwf.org
Next RFP deadline
We anticipate that the next request for proposals will go
out at the beginning of September 2007, please check this
website occasionally or email brian.gratwicke@nfwf.org to
ensure that you are on the RFP distribution list.