Regional Environment, Science, Technology, and Health (ESTH) Grants for Pacific Island State

Projects should address one or more of the following environmental areas of focus:

Food security: sustainable agriculture and/or fisheries

• Sustainable economic development

• Adaptation to changing environmental conditions, e.g., coastal management

• Waste management, including land based sources of marine pollution

• Air quality

• Reforestation

• Reef and coral restoration

• Watershed management

• Maintaining biodiversity and healthy ecosystems

• Creation and/or management of marine protected areas

• Environment or health-related education (particularly for underserved groups)

• Capacity building for scientific research on environmental issues

• Deployment of new technology for application to environmental issues

Projects may propose activities targeted through this solicitation in the following countries: the Federated States of Micronesia; Fiji; Kiribati; Papua New Guinea; Republic of the Marshall Islands; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Tuvalu; or Vanuatu.

Projects should seek to meet local or regional needs, involve local expertise and know-how in the design and implementation phases of the project, and should build monitoring and evaluation – including time-bound milestones for performance/results into the project.  Proposals for $25,000 or over will not be considered.  Projects may serve to implement discrete phases of larger projects or programs (e.g., one country of a multi-country program, only the public education phase of an environmental law project, tree planting in only one region of a country-wide program, only a fish population study of a broader river quality program, etc.)

This is FY2018 funding.  The authority for this funding opportunity is found in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (FAA).