Opportunity Information: Apply for F24AS00181
F24AS00181 is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.679) offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the agency expects to have substantial involvement with the recipient during project implementation rather than simply issuing funds and stepping back. The opportunity supports the inaugural MENTOR-HAWLT (Holistically Addressing WildLife Trafficking) conservation fellowship program, centered on reducing wildlife trafficking through a holistic approach that explicitly integrates strong social science to better understand and respond to the human behaviors, incentives, and social systems that drive trafficking.
The program will take place in Kenya, highlighted in the notice as a biodiversity-rich country with varied landscapes and a large number of wild plant and animal species. A key context point in the description is that much of Kenya's wildlife lives outside protected areas, and many species are classified as vulnerable or endangered, which can increase exposure to illegal exploitation and complicate enforcement-only solutions. Against that backdrop, the fellowship is designed to build real-world capacity to plan, implement, and evaluate interventions that address wildlife trafficking in a comprehensive way, not just through ecological or enforcement lenses but also through evidence-based strategies grounded in the "human dimensions" of the problem.
The core goal is capacity development: preparing participants and implementing partners to design and test holistic anti-trafficking approaches that can be measured and improved over time. The emphasis on social science suggests the fellowship may prioritize work that uses tools like behavioral insights, community engagement methods, market and supply-chain analysis, socio-economic assessments, governance and corruption risk analysis, and evaluation frameworks to understand why trafficking occurs and what interventions actually change outcomes. In practice, this points toward projects that connect conservation outcomes with the realities of livelihoods, local attitudes and norms, consumer demand, organized networks, and institutional constraints, and then translate that understanding into interventions that can be monitored for effectiveness.
Eligibility is broad. Applicants may include individuals, multinational secretariats, nonprofit nongovernmental organizations, for-profit organizations, and public or private institutions of higher education. This range suggests the program is open both to academic-led fellowship designs and to practitioner-led models run by NGOs or other implementers, potentially including partnerships that combine field presence, training capability, research expertise, and evaluation capacity.
Key administrative details include an original closing date of March 4, 2024, and an award ceiling of $1,000,000. The notice lists the opportunity category as "Discretionary" and the activity category as "Environment." While the record does not specify the number of expected awards in the provided fields, the ceiling indicates the agency is prepared to support a substantial fellowship effort that could include multiple fellows, training components, field placements, mentorship structures, and evaluation activities designed to generate learning about what works to reduce wildlife trafficking in the Kenyan context.Apply for F24AS00181
- The Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "F24AS00181 - MENTOR – HAWLT (Holistically Addressing WildLife Trafficking)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.679.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2023-12-05.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-03-04. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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