An indispensable guide to launch your funding journey and create a meaningful impact, specifically crafted for practitioners and professionals. This guide delivers crucial tips and insights sourced from GLF’s dynamic community and Luxembourg partners. Featuring a compelling case study from the Taniala Regenerative Camp in Madagascar, a community-based solution providing ground-level insights to enrich your learning experience.

Tips from GLF’s community

• Dedicated fundraising staff: Learn how dedicating staff to fundraising efforts and improving financial disclosure can enhance your competitiveness in funding applications. Consider investing in staff training.
• Financial stability and resilience: Discover strategies for building financial stability, such as income-generating activities and diverse funding avenues. Explore the possibility of applying for awards/prizes as an alternative funding source.
• Team capacity building: Strengthen your team’s capacity to identify resources by learning about different types of funding instruments. Develop the skills to identify resources most relevant to your project, create a budget plan, and determine the ideal funding size and type for your organization.

Tips from GLF-Luxebourg partners

• Aligning with donor objectives: When researching financial support for a project, understand the donor’s intentionality. Tailor your project proposal to match the preferences of the specific donor. Engage in open discussions to co-design a project that resonates with the donor’s interests.
• Networking at events: discover the importance of attending events to network with potential donors and build relationships that can support your projects.

Get insights from the ground

Be inspired by the success story of Taniala Regenerative Camp, located in Madagascar’s Menabe Region, is dedicated to restoring degraded land. Despite language barriers and a small team, they received an award in 2023 and won the Lush Spring Prize for soil restoration.

Now, their focus is on securing funding for full-time operations, expanding their team’s language skills, and seeking grants and awards for infrastructure development and village base camps.

Download now our guide to embark on a path of financial empowerment and impactful restoration initiatives!

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This report, commissioned by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in support of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, assesses funding sources for local non-profit organizations engaged in ecosystem restoration in Central America and Africa. Ecosystem restoration is crucial for addressing climate and biodiversity issues and can generate substantial economic and environmental benefits.

Local non-profit organizations play a vital role in restoration efforts, given their knowledge of local needs and solutions. However, they face challenges accessing funding due to limited options and mismatches in project sizes and funders’ expectations. Three key actors in restoration funding are public funders, private investors, and civil society organizations.

Key Recommendations for non-profits, funders, and development partners

For non-profit implementers, common funding options are grants and public sector policies like subsidies. The report outlines 14 relevant funding options, including target groups, geographic scope, thematic areas, and eligibility criteria. Intermediaries, such as national environmental funds, can help connect local implementers with funding sources:

• Familiarize with national restoration funding infrastructure.
• Understand donor language, eligibility criteria, and application processes.
• Partner with international NGOs, UN Agencies, and development partners.
• Explore results-based finance instruments for long-term funding.
• Utilize matchmaking platforms to navigate the funding landscape.
• Develop the capacity of national environmental funds in Central America and Africa.
• Foster knowledge exchange and networks among local implementers for funding accessibility.
• Build an economic case for ecosystem restoration through valuation assessments.
• Expand small-grants programs for local non-profits.
• Diversify funding streams for long-term sustainability.

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