The West Africa Civil Society (WACSI) – Call for Application: Strengthening Civil Society Organisations’ capacities in the biodiversity conservation sector.

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Application Deadline: 6 March 2025.

The West Africa Civil Society performs a strategic position as a key investor in capability growth for civil society entities, together with Community-Based Organisations (CBOs), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), associations, faith-based organisations, and others. As part of its capability strengthening initiative, the institute is implementing a capability strengthening mannequin for three years between 2025 to 2027 to strengthen actors and civil society organisations (CSOs) inside the biodiversity conservation sector in West Africa particularly in Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Guinea, and Senegal whereas broadening their data and documentation capability on these important points.

The programme will supply tailor-made capacity-strengthening interventions designed to enhance the governance, management and operational expertise of organisations. It will even embrace a mentorship programme for senior leaders and a analysis fellowship to help ongoing studying and data documentation. Additionally, the initiative will set up a group of apply (CoP) to foster collaboration, shared studying and sustainability amongst the collaborating organisations.

Eligibility Criteria

CSOs which might be in making use of should meet the following standards:

• Must be a Community-Based organisation (CBO) or Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) working in Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Guinea or Liberia.
• Must be legally registered and primarily based in considered one of the nations talked about above.
• Must have an excellent observe document inside its group of operation.
• Must be a CSO engaged on biodiversity conservation with and for native communities, particularly on the ecosystems of freshwater, coastal areas or forest. We additionally invite proposals from organisations working at the intersection between these ecosystems and different sectors.
• Must have robust management and governance buildings.
• Must have a minimal of 1 12 months of operational expertise.
• Must be totally out there to dedicate workers and time to all features of the programme.
• Must decide to designate three representatives (females and males) for the programme who will totally take part in the course. Each organisation’s consultant should display skill to switch data and affect the institutionalisation of the expertise learnt in their organisation.
• Must decide to actively collaborating in all features of the programme together with the induction session, the coaching, the management engagement in addition to the teaching periods.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Strengthening Civil Society Organisations’ capacities in the biodiversity conservation sector.