Convocatoria de la Conservation, Food and Health Foundation

La Conservation, Food and Health Foundation ofrece financiamiento a proyectos de investigación, capacitación y asistencia técnica que busquen:

(i) ayudar a conservar ecosistemas viables y proteger la diversidad biológica en países en desarrollo,
(ii) capacitar el personal en conservación y protección de los recursos con una énfasis en capacitación técnica y científica.

Se dará preferencia a los proyectos pilotos, con potencial de replicación y donde involucran a personas del país que obtienen capacitación o empleos. Las aplicaciones se reciben hasta el 1 de agosto.

Guidelines

The Conservation, Food, & Health Foundation was incorporated in 1985 and began making grants in 1986.
Its purpose is to assist in the conservation of natural resources, the production and distribution of food, and the improvement and promotion of health in the developing world.

Through grants to support research and through targeted grants to help solve specific problems, the Foundation helps build capacity within developing countries in its three areas of interest.

The foundation is especially interested in supporting projects which lead to the transfer of responsibility to the citizens of developing countries for managing and solving their own problems and developing the capacity of local organizations.
Preference will be given to projects, including research projects, in areas that tend to be under-funded.

Geographic Focus

The foundation"s focus is the developing world. Preference will be given to organizations located in developing countries or to developed country organizations whose activities are of direct and immediate benefit to developing countries.
The Foundation does not consider the states of the former Soviet Union or former Eastern Bloc countries as within its geographic focus.
Fields of Interest

The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation supports special projects and programs of nonprofit organizations in three primary fields of interest: conservation, food and health.
Examples of areas of interest within these fields follow, but are not meant to be exclusive.
1) Conservation

Conservation grants will help improve ecological and environmental conditions in the developing world.
The Foundation supports field research and related research activities, training, and technical assistance efforts that:

• help conserve viable ecosystems and protect biological diversity in developing countries;


• train Third World personnel in conservation and protection of resources, with an emphasis on technical and scientific trainin

2) Food

Food grants will support focused efforts to improve access to food for consumption in developing countries.  Areas of interest include projects to:

• promote or develop specific practices of sustainable agriculture;


• address fuel and resource problems related to food production and preparation in developing countries;


• offer targeted education and training to small scale food producers and farmers; and


• advance new approaches to control pests and diseases affecting crops of importance to developing countries.

Health grants are made to improve the level of health in the Third World through special programs that promote research, technical assistance or training to:

• improve public health, with emphasis in the areas of health promotion, disease prevention, and family planning; and
  
• increase understanding and treatment of tropical diseases

The number of applications to the Foundation has grown each year since the Foundation first began making grants in 1986.
Today there is an excessive number of applications considering the $800,000 of funds annually available.

In order to try to reduce the number of applicants turned down for lack of available funds and to save time loss and expense to applicants, the Foundation has adopted a two-phase application system composed of a short concept application, followed by a limited number of full proposals at our invitation.

This system is intended to screen out projects at the concept application level which appear unlikely to receive final funding.Full proposals requested have a fair chance of success.
We must stress, however, that an invitation to submit a full proposal should not be taken as assurance that a grant will be made.