Darwin Plus Fund - Darwin Plus Strategic Grant

Darwin Plus Fund - Darwin Plus Strategic Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Darwin Plus
Amount: £1,000,000 - £3,000,000
Last Updated: July 16, 2025

Summary

The Darwin Plus Strategic initiative is a UK government grants scheme aimed at enhancing biodiversity, environmental quality, and resilience to climate change in UK Overseas Territories. It supports projects that focus on biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, and capacity building. By addressing these critical areas, the fund aligns with national biodiversity strategies and environmental action plans, contributing to long-term sustainability and protection of unique ecosystems.

Overview

Darwin Plus Strategic Darwin Plus (also known as The Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund) is a UK government grants scheme that helps deliver long-term strategic outcomes for the unique biodiversity, the natural environment and improving resilience to climate change within the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs). It is one of the Biodiversity Challenge Funds, which also includes the Darwin Initiative and the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, aimed at conserving biodiversity and safeguarding the environment for local people. Most projects will include one or more of the following themes: Biodiversity: improving and conserving biodiversity, and slowing or reversing biodiversity loss and degradation; Climate change: responding to, mitigating and adapting to climate change and its effects on the natural environment and local communities; Environmental quality: improving the condition and protection of the natural environment; Capability and capacity building: enhancing the capacity within UKOTs to support the environment in the short- and long-term. Projects contribute to the delivery of existing commitments for individual Territories, such as those set out within the national biodiversity strategies, environmental action plans and roadmaps, or equivalent.

Eligibility

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