WWF Gustavo Fonseca Leadership Program 2026-2027 (up to $30,000) – YOA

Deadline: December 18, 2025

Applications are open for the WWF Gustavo Fonseca Leadership Program 2026-2027. WWF Education for Nature Program (EFN) is happy to launch the aggressive Fonseca Leadership Program supported by the GEF. The program is designed to scale native and regional conservation management in Latin America by offering funding help to the present and subsequent technology of researchers and practitioners to pursue graduate-stage research (grasp’s and PhD).

The Fonseca Leadership Program goals to create alternatives to conduct analysis on utilized conservation associated subjects which shall be vital within the design and implementation of conservation actions within the area. Fellows can even have an OPPORTUNITY to be part of the expansive international group of EFN alumni to allow information change and collective success.

Focus Areas

The Fonseca Leadership Program is open to the present and subsequent technology of researchers and practitioners in Latin America to pursue graduate-stage research (grasp’s and PhDs). The analysis subjects could cowl the next areas/themes, however examples aren’t restricted to this listing:

• Focus utilized conservation – particularly programs of study and analysis that floor college students in ‘real world’ conservation challenges due to this fact offering coaching that shall be vital for the early profession researchers to design and implement conservation motion.
• Focus on ecological and socioeconomic context of biodiversity conservation and why the proposed work is required at native, nationwide, and regional ranges.
• Build on partnership and lively engagement with native communities, educational analysis, and practitioners.
• Consider human dimensions in conservation and sustainable improvement: group-primarily based conservation and science, Indigenous peoples information methods, emphasis on enhancing native experience, abilities, and information.

Funding

• Applicants could apply for up to two (grasp’s) and three (PhD) years of funding and request up to $30,000 per 12 months. The quantity of funding accepted will fluctuate.

Eligibility

• You have to be an applicant of an eligible nation.
• You should ideally have not less than two years of conservation-associated work or analysis expertise.
• You have to be enrolled in or admi ed to a grasp’s or PhD program in-nation, throughout the area, or internationally.
• You should plan to start your research no later than January 2027.
• You should contact EFN if you’re a WWF or GEF worker, advisor, or earlier EFN grant recipient to decide eligibility.
• Eligible international locations embrace: Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Suriname.

Application

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For extra info, go to WWF Gustavo Fonseca Leadership Program.