CEPF
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
RIT MADIO
Regional Implementation Team
Madagascar Indian Ocean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot
Founded in 2000, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is a joint initiative of l’Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Conservation International, the European Union, the Government of Canada, the Fondation Hans Wilsdorf, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan and the World Bank. A fundamental goal is to ensure civil society is engaged in biodiversity conservation.
With funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) through AFD as the GCF accredited entity, and from the European Union through AFD acting as the fiduciary agent, CEPF established and is managing a 10-year program of support to civil society organizations to promote ecosystem-based adaptation in the Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands (MADIO) Biodiversity Hotspot.
Program activities are taking place in Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius and the Seychelles.
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CEPF WEBSITE : https://www.cepf.net/our-work/biodiversity-hotspots/madagascar-and-indian-ocean-islands
IUCN NL WEBSITE: https://www.iucn.nl/en/
EXPLORE THE INTERACTIVE MAP HERE:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1SuEfGxruyUVRqjG8Ts-Bw9gsgUEPfXE&femb=1&ll=-14.615792481273083%2C48.033332000000016&z=4
RIT TRAINING
MADAGASCAR (6th to 9th September 2022)
Training of the MADIO Biodiversity Hotspot RIT Team by CEPF.
Led by IUCN NL, the RIT comprises of FORENA (Mauritius), SAF FJKM (Madagascar), Initiative Developpement (Comoros) and SEYCCAT (Seychelles)
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LEARN MORE ABOUT MADIO RIT ACTIONS VIA THE DEDICATED WEBSITE:
https://www.iucn.nl/en/project/protecting-biodiversity-on-madagascar-and-the-indian-ocean-islands/
CEPF Grievance Mechanism
MADIO* Biodiversity Hotspot
(*MADIO stands for Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands. The biodiversity hotspot includes Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles and Mauritius)
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) abides by a set of procedures regarding Grievances from Grantees, Local Communities, Stakeholders and Regional Implementation Teams (RIT).
For the MADIO Biodiversity Hotspot, the RIT is led by IUCN NL and is constituted of a consortium of organisations for each member country.
Within the RIT consortium, Fondation Ressources et Nature (FORENA) represents the Republic of Mauritius.
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GRIEVANCE MECHANISM
“The grantee will share all grievances received, with the CEPF Grant Director and RIT contact person within 15 days. If the claimant is not satisfied following the RIT’s response, the claimant will have the option of submitting their grievance directly to:
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- The RIT and IUCN NL’s Complaints Procedure is publicly available on IUCN NLs website. All complaints may be submitted formally in writing to the IUCN NL Complaints Committee at mail@iucn.nl or use the telephone number: +31 (0)20 626 1732.
- CEPF can be reached via the CI Ethics Hotline at www.ci.ethicspoint.com or via phone to a toll-free telephone line: +1-866-294-8674.
Any complaints submitted to the CI Ethics Hotline will be investigated promptly and treated as confidential to the extent possible. CEPF and the RIT will not retaliate against any person or organisation that submit such complaints in good faith.
Any person or group of people affected by the environmental or social aspects of a project funded by the CEPF as part of its program entitled “Ecosystem-based adaptation in the Indian Ocean”, funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), through the French Development Agency (AFD) as an accredited entity, who would have exhausted all possibilities of dialogue with the RIT and via the “CI Ethics Hotline” » can use the environmental and social grievance mechanisms of the AFD and the GCF.
For the AFD mechanism, grievances can be sent:
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by filling out the form online on the AFD website (www.afd.fr)
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by sending an email to: reclamation@afd.fr
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by mail to the attention of:
French Development Agency
Secretariat of the Environmental and Social Complaints Management System
5, Rue Roland Barthes
75598 Paris Cedex 12
France
For the GCF mechanism, grievances can be sent:
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by completing the online form on the GCF website (https://irm.greenclimate.fund/)
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by sending an email to: irm@gcfund.org
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By telephone: +82.32.458.6585
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By mail to the attention of:
Independent Redress Mechanism
Green Climate Fund
Songdo Business District
175 Art Center-daero
Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 22004
Republic of Korea
2022-2027 Funding Cycle
1st Call for Proposal - Closed on the 2nd February 2023
Following the First Call for Proposal , 4 Mauritian CSOs have been selected (2 Large Grants and 2 Small Grants).
Two Small Grant Contracts were signed on the 8th August 2023. The Large Grant contracts were signed once all safeguards were addressed and projects reviewed in a collaborative manner between the CEPF and the future grantees.
2022-2027 Funding Cycle
2nd Call for Proposal - Closed 1st August 2023
The process of review of Letters of Inquiry for Large Grants by the RIT started mid-August 2023. The RIT review is proposed to CEPF for final selection of potential grantees who will be called upon to propose a detailed LOI and give detailed information to CEPF.
ONLINE INFORMATION SESSION
Watch the video on YouTube and download the PDF.
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An online information session concerning the Call for LOI for Small Grants was held on the 24th August 2023.
The video can be consulted on Youtube: https://youtu.be/8k8dzdqEw6U
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Click on the PDF icon to consult the presentation shown during the Information Session.