MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA GRANTS AND CONTRACTS LIST ONGOING Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to promote the exchange of experiences with and lessons from community forest rights and management between Mexico and Central America and Brazil, Peru, and Colombia AMOUNT: $151,250.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: November 2016 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the community forestry concession model for the management and conservation of tropical forests within the Maya Biosphere Reserve AMOUNT: $1,000,000.00 DURATION: 36 months / Start date: September 2015 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests (AMPB) and help define its policies, procedures, governance and activities to promote climate change policies that favor forest communities AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: June 2016 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to promote climate change policies that benefit Guatemala’s forestry communities through research, training, networking, and advocacy AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 24 months / Start date: January 2016 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests (AMPB) and help it to promote forest and climate change policies that favor forest communities AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: May 2015
Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – M.A. Cargill Grant PURPOSE: to support sustainable community forest management in the Maya Biosphere Reserve AMOUNT: $1,000,000.00 DURATION: 36 months / Start date: September 2012 Association for the Development of the Honduran Mosquitia (MOPAWI) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to help Miskitu communities gain title to their traditional territories and maintain control over their natural resources through training and technical assistance AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 24 months / Start date: January 2016 Association for the Development of the Honduran Mosquitia (MOPAWI) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to provide training and technical assistance to Miskitu communities to help them gain title to their traditional territories and maintain control over their natural resources AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2015 Fundación Intereclesiástica Para La Cooperación Al Desarrollo (ICCO) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests (AMPB) and its ten member organizations to promote forest and climate change policies that favor forest communities AMOUNT: $600,000.00 DURATION: 19 months / Start date: December 2015 Fundación PRISMA – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to disseminate information and lessons related to community forestry and indigenous forest rights from Mexico and Central America to relevant stakeholders in other regions AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: February 2017 Fundación PRISMA – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to encourage governments and conservation organizations in Mexico, Central America, and other regions to recognize the rights of Indigenous Peoples and forest communities that occupy land that governments have declared as protected areas AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2016 Fundación PRISMA – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to review the literature on experiences with community forest rights and management in Mexico and Central America and its relevance for other regions AMOUNT: $90,000.00 DURATION: 15 months / Start date: December 2015
Fundación PRISMA – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to document, analyze and disseminate successful experiences with community forest rights in Central America and to advise grassroots organizations in Mesoamerica about forest and climate change programs AMOUNT: $175,000.00 DURATION: 16 months / Start date: August 2013 Global Greengrants Fund – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to operate a small grants program to help improve governance of forested indigenous territories in Honduras AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: June 2016 Global Greengrants Fund – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to reduce conflicts in indigenous territories in Honduras and Nicaragua through a small grants program AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: June 2015 Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir, A.C. (ILSB) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to support work on gender and youth inclusion in the forestry sector AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 15 months / Start date: September 2016 James Bampton – ClimateWorks Contract PURPOSE: to identify best practices in facilitating exchanges and site visits and develop strategies for using these to promote the sharing of experiences with community forest management AMOUNT: $40,000.00 DURATION: 9 months / Start date: November 2016 Kathryn Steingraber – ClimateWorks Contract PURPOSE: to identify best practices in facilitating exchanges and site visits and develop strategies for using these to promote the sharing of experiences with community forest management AMOUNT: $40,000.00 DURATION: 9 months / Start date: November 2016 Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to work with rural ejidos and communities to improve forest management and develop diversified natural resource value chains AMOUNT: $2,000,000.00 DURATION: 36 months / Start date: October 2015
Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to promote climate change policies that favor community forestry in Mexico through research, advocacy, and communications activities AMOUNT: $350,000.00 DURATION: 17 months / Start date: October 2016 Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to implement research, advocacy, and communications activities to promote climate change policies that favor community forestry in Mexico AMOUNT: $350,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: October 2015 Rainforest Foundation Inc. (RFUS) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to help indigenous peoples in Panama obtain secure rights over their territories and to improve their capacity to protect their rights and livelihoods, promote favorable forest and climate policies, and reduce emissions from deforestation AMOUNT: $425,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2017 Rainforest Foundation Inc. (RFUS) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to help the Indigenous Peoples of Panama to obtain secure rights over their territories and develop the capacity to promote forest and climate policies and projects that protect their rights and livelihoods and reduce carbon emissions AMOUNT: $415,400.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2016 REDMOCAF – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to help the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests (AMPB) to design and implement communications strategies that address forest communities’ concerns about forest and climate change policies AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: June 2016 REDMOCAF – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to assist the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests (AMPB) in designing and implementing communications strategies addressing forest communities’ concerns about forests and climate change policies and initiatives AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: June 2015
Smithsonian Institution – M.A. Cargill Grant PURPOSE: to establish an integrated land‐use management plan to resolve conflict and allow for mutually acceptable forest management and livelihood activities in the Upper Bayano watershed of eastern Panama AMOUNT: $425,000.00 DURATION: 40 months / Start date: March 2013 Soluciones en Legislación y Política Ambiental, A.C. (POLEA) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to promote informed dialogue between Mexican legislators and other stakeholders about forestry and climate change policies in Mexico AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: August 2016 World Bank – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to produce a report and organize policy dialogues focused on forest regulation and the competitiveness of the forest sector in Mexico, with emphasis on community forestry AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 13 months / Start date: November 2014 CLOSED Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to promote climate change policies that benefit Guatemala’s forestry communities through research, training, networking, and advocacy AMOUNT: $180,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2015 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests, including its internal functioning, national advocacy efforts, and presence in international policy dialogues AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: May 2014 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support research, training, networking and advocacy to promote climate change policies that benefit Guatemala's forest communities AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 8 months / Start date: May 2014
Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests and help defines its policies, procedures, governance, and activities to promote climate change policies that favor forest communities AMOUNT: $270,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: May 2013 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support research, training, networking and advocacy to promote climate change policies that benefit Guatemala's forest communities AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 16 months / Start date: January 2013 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to consolidate the Mesoamerican Alliance for People and Forests and help define its policies, procedures, governance, and activities to promote climate change policies that favor forest communities AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: May 2012 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: for research, training, networking, and advocacy to promote climate change policies that benefit Guatemala’s forestry communities AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2012 Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: tp promote REDD+ policies in Guatemala that favor forest communities AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2011 Carmen Tavera – ClimateWorks Contract PURPOSE: to conduct an external evaluation of CLUA’s grants to Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) for research, training, communications, and advisory activities designed to promote federal and state‐level forest and climate change poli AMOUNT: $58,937.00 DURATION: 7 months / Start date: September 2014 Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support a workshop on Forest Governance, decentralization and REDD+ hosted by the Government of Mexico AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2010
Community Forestry Indigenous Campesino Coordinating Association (ACICAFOC) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to consolidate and promote the newly formed Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: February 2011 Community Forestry Indigenous Campesino Coordinating Association (ACICAFOC) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support indigenous, small farmer and afro‐descendant communities' participation in an alliance to promote more equitable national and subnational REDD policies AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: June 2010 Fundación Intereclesiástica Para La Cooperación Al Desarrollo (ICCO) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests (AMPB) and its ten member organizations and help them to promote forest and climate change policies that favor forest communities AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 5 months / Start date: September 2015 Fundación Intereclesiástica Para La Cooperación Al Desarrollo (ICCO) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests (AMPB) and its ten member organizations and help them to promote forest and climate change policies that favor forest communities AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 10 months / Start date: January 2015 Fundación Intereclesiástica Para La Cooperación Al Desarrollo (ICCO) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests (AMPB) and its ten member organizations and help them to promote forest and climate change policies and projects that favor forest communities AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2014 Fundación Intereclesiástica Para La Cooperación Al Desarrollo (ICCO) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to support the consolidation of the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 14 months / Start date: November 2012 Fundación Intereclesiástica Para La Cooperación Al Desarrollo (ICCO) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 14 months / Start date: November 2011
Fundación PRISMA – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to document and publicize community management of forested territories in Mesoamerica and advise and produce materials to support advocacy by the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests (AMPB) AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 15 months / Start date: October 2014 Fundación PRISMA – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to document, analyze and disseminate the results of community‐based REDD activities in Central America AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 17 months / Start date: August 2011 Global Greengrants Fund – Ford Grant PURPOSE: for small grants to help resolve conflicts in Indigenous territories in Central America and allow community groups to participate in forest and climate change events AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2014 Global Greengrants Fund – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support flexible small grants to grassroots and community organizations in Central America to allow them to take advantage of policy opportunities related to forests and climate change AMOUNT: $50,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: May 2013 Global Greengrants Fund – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support a small grants program to build the capacity of indigenous and community organizations in Central America to participate in REDD‐related policy dialogues AMOUNT: $50,000.00 DURATION: 13 months / Start date: June 2012 Global Greengrants Fund – Ford Grant PURPOSE: for a small grants program to help indigenous and community organizations in Central America participate in policy dialogues on forests and climate change AMOUNT: $50,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: June 2011 Global Greengrants Fund – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to strengthen the capacity of indigenous and forest‐based community groups to participate in and influence national and international REDD policy, strategies and projects to ensure the respect of community rights AMOUNT: $50,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2010
International Union for Conservation of Nature Mesoamerica (IUCN) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: for promoting participation of forest communities and indigenous people in developing REDD strategies in Mesoamerica AMOUNT: $400,000.00 DURATION: 15 months / Start date: July 2010 International Union for Conservation of Nature Mesoamerica (IUCN) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support the design and implementation of communications strategies related to forests and climate change by grassroots Indigenous and community forestry organizations in Central America AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: February 2013 International Union for Conservation of Nature Mesoamerica (IUCN) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support the consolidation of the Mesoamerican Alliance for Peoples and Forests AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 13 months / Start date: January 2012 Mexican Center for Environmental Law (CEMDA) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to organize media and workshops to promote the establishment of a Mexican REDD+ mechanism based on community forest management, under the COP16 framework AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 15 months / Start date: February 2010 Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to conduct a pre‐feasibility study to examine using World Bank forest bonds to fund independently certified community forestry enterprises in Mexico AMOUNT: $50,000.00 DURATION: 10 months / Start date: November 2011 Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: for research, advocacy, and communications activities to promote climate change policies that favor community forestry in Mexico AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 15 months / Start date: July 2014 Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support research, training, communications, and advisory activities designed to promote federal and state‐level forest and climate change policies in Mexico that favor sustainable community forest management, in order to reduce carbon emissions, improv AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: July 2013
Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: for research, advocacy and communication activities to promote climate change policies that favor community forestry in Mexico AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 15 months / Start date: July 2012 Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to systematize lessons from REDD pilot projects & advocate for a more pro‐community national REDD+ strategy in Mexico AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: May 2011 Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support economic, social and environmental assessments for five community forest management pilot projects and analysis of existing and proposed national REDD policies and their implications for community forest management AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 15 months / Start date: March 2010 Mexican Council for Sustainable Forestry ‐ Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible (CCMSS) – M.A. Cargill Grant PURPOSE: to support community landscape management for REDD+ AMOUNT: $2,025,000.00 DURATION: 36 months / Start date: September 2012 National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) (UNAM) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: for research and analysis on forest degradation in Mexico to inform national and international policy AMOUNT: $200,000.00 DURATION: 43 months / Start date: April 2011 Rainforest Foundation Inc. (RFUS) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to help the Indigenous Peoples of Panama obtain secure rights over their territories and develop the capacity to promote forest and climate policies and projects that protect their rights and livelihoods and reduce carbon emissions AMOUNT: $399,803.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2015
Rainforest Foundation Inc. (RFUS) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to conserve some of the largest remaining stretches of tropical forest in Eastern Panama, by securing the rights of the Embera and Wounaan to their ancestral lands and implementing sustainable forest management systems AMOUNT: $61,998.00 DURATION: 4 months / Start date: September 2014 Rainforest Foundation Inc. (RFUS) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to support the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples of Panama (COONAPIP) to advocate more effectively for forest and climate change policies that benefit Indigenous Peoples and reduce carbon emissions AMOUNT: $125,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2014 Rainforest Foundation Inc. (RFUS) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to support the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples of Panama (COONAPIP) to advocate more effectively for forest and climate change policies that benefit Indigenous Peoples and reduce carbon emissions AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: January 2013 Rainforest Foundation Inc. (RFUS) – M.A. Cargill Grant PURPOSE: to conserve some of the largest remaining stretches of tropical forest in Eastern Panama, by securing the rights of the Embera and Wounaan to their ancestral lands and implementing sustainable forest management systems AMOUNT: $310,000.00 DURATION: 20 months / Start date: January 2013 REDMOCAF – Ford Grant PURPOSE: to support the design and implementation of communications strategies related to forests and climate change by grassroots Indigenous and community forestry organizations in Central America AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: June 2014 The Global Legislators Organization (GLOBE) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to inform and educate Mexico’s legislators in areas relevant to policymaking for REDD+ and sustainable community forest management and to share their experiences with legislators from other countries AMOUNT: $100,000.00 DURATION: 12 months / Start date: April 2014 The Global Legislators Organization (GLOBE) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to develop a comprehensive legal framework that supports the effective implementation of Mexico’s national REDD+ strategy and promote sustainable community forest management AMOUNT: $150,000.00 DURATION: 24 months / Start date: October 2012
Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to provide training about REDD policies, programs, and issues to relevant stakeholders to strengthen the human capacity of indigenous territories to participate in and formulate REDD+ initiatives in Central America AMOUNT: $250,000.00 DURATION: 35 months / Start date: November 2010 World Wildlife Fund (WWF) – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to fund WWF Mexico to hire a communications expert to help transmit messages favoring Mexican REDD+ policies AMOUNT: $40,000.00 DURATION: 7 months / Start date: June 2010 Yale University – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to foster the international diffusion of community forestry based on the experience of Mexico and Central America AMOUNT: $99,967.00 DURATION: 21 months / Start date: November 2013 Yale University – ClimateWorks Grant PURPOSE: to develop a series of case studies on policy diffusion and change at the nexus of forestry and climate change, focusing on legality verification systems and REDD+, and lessons for community forestry policy diffusion AMOUNT: $99,980.00 DURATION: 16 months / Start date: November 2012