In 2015 the European Union announced funding for the multi-year, €3.9 million program Biodiversity Information for Development (BID), led by GBIF. Its aim is to increase the amount of biodiversity information available from the so-called APC (African, Caribbean and Pacific region) nations. The first call for proposals from sub-Saharan Africa, brought in 143 initial concept notes for projects coordinated from 34 African countries. The GBIF Secretariat selected 23 projects with a total funding of €1 million and announced them earlier this week.
The selected projects range across not only diverse geographies but also many thematic areas. The proposed collaborations will seek to build institutional capacity, to mobilize data on Red Listed species and targeted groups of species, and to digitize and share data from museum collections, parks and protected areas. Others harvest species data from activities focused on human health, food security and the reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
Here they are:
- Capacity building and biodiversity data mobilization for conservation, sustainable use, and decision making in Africa and Madagascar
- Strengthening collaboration for increased biodiversity mobilization on key biodiversity ecosystems of the Albertine Rift Region
- African Insect Atlas: Unleashing the potential of insects in conservation and sustainability research in Africa
- Capacity enhancement for Ghana node of GBIF
- Organizing and mobilizing biodiversity information from the Kenya Wildlife Service
- Towards a Red List of the globally threatened plants of Guinea
- Capacity building and biodiversity data mobilization to address health and food security priorities in Benin
- Building capacity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to establish an effective GBIF Participant node
- Strengthening the biodiversity stakeholders network in Togo
- Support for data collection of plant biodiversity in Gabon
- Development of a funding mechanism and efficient management of data on plant biodiversity in Côte d’Ivoire
- Strengthening of an institutional network in Angola to mobilize national biodiversity data
- Senegalese National Information System on Biodiversity: SENBIO-INFOS
- Gathering of biodiversity data on bird species for their sustainable management in Benin
- Making the zoology collection at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe accessible through GBIF
- Kenya’s other carnivores: Harnessing biodiversity data for effective development of national conservation strategies
- Mobilizing plant biodiversity data in Uganda through training
- Data rescue for records of the Botswana Wildlife Management Association
- Mobilization of diversity data on bees for conservation and sustainable development of the beekeeping sector in Cameroon
- Mobilizing data on freshwater snails in Kenya
- Mobilization of biodiversity data of protected area and threatened species in Benin
- Mobilizing biodiversity data from the forest reserves of southern and central Benin
- Establishing metadata of biodiversity data generated from REDD+ projects in Tanzania
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