Applications are now open for the Global Forest Watch (GFW) Small Grants Fund 2024 grant cycle! The GFW Small Grants Fund seeks to build capacity of civil society organizations to effectively use GFW tools and data to reduce illegal or unplanned deforestation and sustainably manage forests. To learn more before you apply, join us for the 2024 GFW Small Grants Fund webinar on January 30th at 9:00am ET. This webinar will take place in English. During the webinar, we will provide an overview of the 2024 application process and host a demo of the GFW platform and its near real-time data. There will be an opportunity for questions at the end. Please visit the Small Grants Fund webpage here: https://gfw.global/3HmszCN for more information or contact us at gfwfund@wri.org if you have any questions or feedback prior to the webinar. By registering for this webinar, you agree to subscribe and receive updates from WRI and Global Forest Watch.

1. 2024 Small Grants Fund
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2. Webinar Instructions
• Enter questions or comments through the “Q&A” button. We will
have a Q&A at the end of the presentation

3. Speakers Q&A
Stephanie Borcea
Small Grants Fund
Specialist
Global Forest Watch
Isabela Barriga
Engagement Specialist
Global Forest Watch
Jessica Webb
Strategy Lead, Forests and
Nature for People
Global Forest Watch

4. 1. Introduction to GFW
2. Small Grants Fund Overview
3. GFW demonstration
4. Eligibility Requirements
5. Review Process
and Proposal Writing Tips
6. Q&A
Agenda
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5. GLOBAL FOREST WATCH
• GFW offers a suite of forest
monitoring tools designed to:
• Increase knowledge and
transparency about forest
landscapes
• Harness information to
mobilize local action by
governments and civil society
• Advance private sector action
to stop commodity-driven
deforestation and manage
forests sustainably

7. Rapid detection of forest disturbance

8. Objective:
• Seeks to strengthen the capacity of CSOs to
effectively use GFW tools and data to reduce
illegal or unplanned deforestation and
sustainably manage forests.
Timeline and Funding:
• Grant range $10,000 - $40,000 USD
• Project timeline: June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025
• 10-12 projects
Benefits:
• Financial and technical support
• Access to wider grantee network
Small Grants Fund
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10. Organizational Eligibility
• Must be:
• Non-profit and non-governmental
• Annual budget greater than $50,000 USD
• Computerized financial system for tracking and recording expenses
• Can provide most recent audit or a balance sheet, income statement, and
cash flow statement for the previous two years
• One project point person with professional working proficiency in English
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11. Project Eligibility
• Demonstrated commitment to forest monitoring and sustainable forest
management
• Key words: to reduce illegal or unplanned deforestation
• GFW tools and data are a key component
• Likely to attain meaningful results leading to decreased deforestation
• Lasting impact beyond project’s life cycle
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12. Latin America​
Bolivia Mexico
Brazil Nicaragua
Colombia Panama
Costa Rica Paraguay
Ecuador Peru
Guatemala Suriname
Honduras
Africa​​
Cameroon
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gabon​
Ghana​
Madagascar​
Republic of the Congo​
Asia​
Cambodia​
Indonesia ​​
Malaysia​
Myanmar (Burma)
Philippines
Vietnam
Geographic Eligibility

13. Process and Timeline
2024 Grant Cycle​
Application submission deadline​ February 13, 2024​
Application review February – March 2024
Application interviews, conditional
finalist selection, and organizational assessment​
April 2024
Final approval and subgrant agreement signed​ April – May 2024
Projects begin​ June 1, 2024
Projects end​ May 31, 2025

14. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Please see the full list of FAQs here: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/help/faqs/grants-fellowships/
1. Are previous Small Grants Fund applicants eligible to apply?
Yes. Previous applicants are eligible to reapply for the Small Grants Fund as along as they meet
the 2024 eligibility requirements.
2. I’m seeking funding for a small component of a larger project. Can I apply for the Small Grants Fund?
Yes. We encourage applications that can clearly demonstrate how GFW contributes to existing
work.
3. Can the Small Grants Fund application be filled out in languages other than English?
No. Unfortunately, we can only accept applications in English.
4. Can the computerized financial system be Excel, or does it need to be an internet-based financial
program?
You may still apply if the system is Excel, but we strongly prefer candidates who use professional
accounting software.

15. Please visit the Small Grant Fund webpage: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/grants-and-fellowships/apply/

17. Project Approaches
• Advocacy
• Forest Monitoring and Enforcement
• Journalism and Storytelling
• Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building
• Informing Land Use Management and/or Policy
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18. Project Approaches
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• Advocacy
✓Worked with Indigenous
communities to develop monitoring
brigades, which resulted in the
creation of 6 demarcation maps.
This helped them to advocate for
strengthened land rights and the
creation of an Indigenous Reserve

19. Project Approaches
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• Forest Monitoring and
Enforcement
✓Used deforestation alerts found on
GFW along with drone technology to
identify and monitor areas of threat.
Worked with forest authorities to
conduct weekly monitoring
expeditions, which resulted in 21
forestry law enforcement operations

20. Project Approaches
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• Journalism and Storytelling
✓Used data on GFW to report on
cases of illegal deforestation and
raise awareness for community
land rights including a short
documentary unveiling the real
costs of a major hydroelectric
power plant

21. Project Approaches
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• Stakeholder Engagement and
Capacity Building
✓Sensitized community members in
forest fringing villages of the
negative impacts of unsustainable
forest practices. Following
sensitization, formed and trained
two community networks on data
collection via GFW tools

22. Project Approaches
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• Informing Land Use Management
and/or Policy
✓Used data on GFW to analyze the
direct and indirect impacts of a large-
scale infrastructure project, which
resulted in visualizations of
deforestation scenarios for 2030 and
2050 of the project. Findings were
shared with relevant decision makers

23. Proposal Tips
• Relevance
• Clearly indicate how your project will support using forest monitoring data on GFW for
improved forest management, enforcement and/or campaigning for one of the key
approaches
• Feasibility
• Articulate how WRI funding will be leveraged to enhance existing projects or ongoing work
related to forest monitoring
• Potential for Impact
• GFW data and tools lead to outcomes, such as a change in policy or recognition of an area’s
legal status, a lawsuit, an investigation, a fine or penalty, or a successful campaign or
boycott.
• Sustainability
• Project outcomes will lead to lasting impact beyond the project’s life cycle
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24. Logical Framework
Activities – specific tasks that need
to be done to produce project’s
outputs
Outcomes – the results you
anticipate from your outputs and
activities
Outcome Indicators – the way a
project measures change as a
result from the activities/outputs,
should be quantitative
Overarching goal/objective – The
main accomplishment of your
project, the change you expect to
see by the time your project ends
Outputs – clear, concrete products
or deliverables that directly link to
desired outcomes

25. Output Outcome
versus
Alerts, investigations
and reports are used
to inform policy and
create management
best-practices for
each forest area
3 in-depth forest
threat analyses are
produced using data
on GFW to assist
the long-term
management of
each forest area of
the project
✓
GFW and Forest
Watcher trainings are
delivered to forest
fringing communities
6 forest fringing communities
use Forest Watcher to
conduct weekly forest
monitoring patrols and report
illegal activities to authorities.
More illegal activities are
reported to authorities by
forest fringing communities
than before the project.
✓

26. Outcome Indicators
• Use SMART
• Specific – is the information easily understood? No multiple elements
• Measurable – are changes verifiable? Practical to measure indicator?
• Accurate/Attributable – is it measuring what needs to be monitored? and
how sensitive to change over the life of the project? / Able to monitor
meaningful contribution?
• Relevant/Reliable – information used for decision making? Important
analytical purpose? locally relevant? / can get the data? Credible? Link
between indicators and what you are trying to show is direct?
• Time-bound – collect at regular intervals over a specific period of time,
accounting for lags between Outputs, Outcomes, and Impacts

27. Overarching Goal/Objective
70% of forest officials in LIA
protected area use deforestation
alerts found on GFW for monitoring
activities
The ability of local observers to
monitor forests using GFW tools is
achieved
• Vague – who are the local
observers, how their ability to use
GFW tools achieved and how is this
measured?
• This is more of an outcome
indicator than an overarching
goal
Long-term monitoring plans are put into place for
S, V, and Y forest reserves. There is a 5%
reduction of deforestation alerts in the areas by
project end
Due to more effective monitoring and enforcement
procedures, 40% of the illegal logging sites in the
protected area become inoperable
✓
• Explains how project outcomes
led to a noticeable, specific,
and noteworthy result for
project area(s) of focus

28. Impact Tracking
The more you closely monitor the outcomes of your project the more likely you are to be able to
attribute change to your project, which can sometimes be hard to readily see unless you conduct
surveys, track down data and documents, consult national or subnational statistics and indicators

29. THANK YOU!
Questions?
Stephanie Borcea
Small Grants Fund
Specialist
Global Forest Watch
Jessica Webb
Strategy Lead, Forests and
Nature for People
Global Forest Watch

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2024 at 23:59PM EST
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