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Category: Funding
Organization: Fundación para la Conservación de los Recursos Naturales y Ambiente en Guatemala (FCG)
Language: English, Spanish
Country/Region: Guatemala
Summary: Fundación para la Conservación de los Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (FCG) aims to foster the sustainable economic development in Guatemala through financial resources. The organization's Web site features information about available financial resources for small projects that work in protected areas, sustainable management of natural resources, training and environmental education, applied research, environmental policy, and institutional strengthening; and sustainable productive activities. Finally, the FCG can provide support in managing projects, accounts, endowment funds, coordinating workshops and meetings, and developing proposals for fundraising from third parties. The Web site also features general information on Guatemala and information on the new ''natural trail'' dedicated to promoting ecotourism.
Organization: UNDP-GEF Small Grants Programme
Language: English
Country/Region: Global
Summary: The Web site of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global Environmental Facility's (GEF) Small Grants Programme, which supports community-level projects worldwide. The Programme has offices in 53 countries, which administer grants to NGOs and community organizations for the implementation of small-scale activities that fall within the Programme's thematic areas. The Web site features eligibility criteria, instructions on grant applications, profiles of current GEF-supported projects, and Programme strategies for each country involved in the GEF. Latin American countries include Bolivia, Brazil, Belize, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru.
Projet: Central America Environmental Projects Web site
Organization: World Bank
Languages: English, Spanish
Country/Region: Central America
Summary: This site serves as a directory of all of the projects the World Bank funds in Central America. See the "Projects" link at the bottom of the page for project profiles organized by country, featuring related documents and reports. Land use and vegetation maps, as well as publications about biodiversity, conservation, environmental management, pollution, public health and rural development are also featured.
Organization: Mexican Nature Conservation Fund (MNCF)
Languages: Spanish, English
Country/Region: Mexico
Summary: The MNCF promotes strategic actions and provides medium and long term financing to conservation initiatives in order to conserve Mexico's biodiversity and assure the sustainable use of its natural resources. The "grants awarded" information has not been updated since 1999, but the site includes a helpful searchable database, in Spanish only, of conservation groups and projects throughout Mexico.
Organization: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Language: English
Country/Region: Africa, Asia, Latin America
Summary: The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) provides funding and technical assistance to civil society in Earth's biodiversity hotspots, which cover only 1.4 percent of the planet, yet contain 60 percent of terrestrial species diversity. CEPF focuses on strategic areas within hotspots in the developing world. The site includes information on CEPF's strategy, detailed information about their geographic focus areas, grant applications, and current awardees.
Organization: US Fish and Wildlife Service Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA)
Languages: Spanish, English
Country/Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Summary: This Web site provides information about the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Grants Program, which establishes a matching grants program to fund projects that promote the conservation of these birds in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The site provides links to grant applications in English, Spanish and Portuguese, outlines grant policies, and lists past awardees.
Organization: Costa Rica-USA Foundation for Cooperation
Languages: Spanish, English
Country/Region: Costa Rica, United States
Summary: The Costa Rica - United States of America Foundation for Cooperation, CR-USA, is an innovative bi-national mechanism for international cooperation between the two countries, within the framework of sustainable development, which supports projects in technical cooperation, technological transfer, and capacity building. This site offers grant applications, evaluation criteria, and a list of current grants.
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