Sponsoring Agency: French Development Agency
Type of Fund:
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/06/2021
Size of the Fund: Not Available
The Biodiversity Partners Program (BiPP) is an innovative acceleration and learning program on biodiversity using mixed learning methods, that is action oriented, transdisciplinary and local, and aims to develop a community of practitioners on a regional scale.
The Biodiversity Partners Program (BiPP), financed by the French Development Agency (AFD), is completely free.
The BiPP program has a two-fold approach:
• to use accelerator models to scale impactful projects and create a community of change makers.
• to use nature-based learning methods to deploy pro-nature projects in various sectors and a common culture on biodiversity and ecological transition.
Criteria
In 2021, the Biodiversity Partners Program is aimed at Southern African projects holders and transition actors in the field of biodiversity regeneration in the region (Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana). It gathers entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs from a wide diversity of sectors and doesn’t know boundaries as long as the ambition is high for nature!
The program is for:
• INTRAPRENEURS
o You work in an organization (company, institution, etc.) whose core activity may NOT be biodiversity or conservation
o You develop or support (a) project(s) that will have an impact on biodiversity, is innocative, can be scaled or replicated
o The project(s) supported has/have a demonstrated positive impact on biodiversity in Southern Africa
o Your organization supports your initiative
• ENTREPRENEURS
o You have created an organization (company, NGO, etc.) with a legal structure and a minimum of 6 months of activity
o Your project has impacts on biodiversity, is innovative, can be scaled or replicated
o Your project is looking at economic viability to maintain impacts created You have an innovative pro-nature project
Program Roadmap
• PHASE 1 – EXPLORE (JUNE 7th to JULY 2nd)
o Nature based solutions & indigenous knowledge systems
o Exploring deep ecology & systems thinking
o Developing your ecological leardership skill
o Meeting innovative projects and their methods
• PHASE 2 – EXPERIMENT (JULY 21st TO JULY 29th)
o 6 days business sprint
o Experimenting start up methods through a design sprint
o Accelerating your project with a dedicated experts team
o Working on your value proposition, marketing and business model
• PHASE 3 – GROW (AUGUST 2nd TO OCTOBER 2nd)
o 2 month virtual program to develop business skills
o Learning new tools & applying them to your project with coaching from facilitators
o Workshops to grow your project with your peers
More information at: https://www.biodiversitypartnersprogram.com/
