Wrapping up a second year
Year Two of the BID: Biodiversity Information for Development programme is closing with lots of activity around each of its three target regions of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
The first 23 African projects funded are well along, engaging data publishers, stakeholders and local communities while starting to make the first BID-related datasets available for biodiversity-related research and policy (highlights below).
Meanwhile, finishing touches are going on agreements for more than a dozen more new projects in the Caribbean and Pacific. At the same time, Secretariat staff and external reviewers are also reviewing the results of the just-completed last call for proposals, which drew an astonishing response—more than 380 initial concept notes from organizations in Africa!
We expect to unveil the Caribbean and Pacific projects in May and the second and final round of African project grantees later this summer. Stay tuned!