Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund

If you represent a government-owned enterprise or institution, you are eligible only if you can establish that the enterprise or institution: - Has a legal personality independent of any government agency or actor - Has the authority to apply for and receive private funds - May not assert a claim of sovereign immunity CEPF does not fund the following activities: - Use of child labor or forced labor. - Construction or rehabilitation of large or complex dams. - Payment of salaries or salary supplements to government security personnel. - Purchase of firearms or other weapons. - Activities that promote the trade in or use of any substances listed under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, or other chemicals or hazardous materials subject to international bans, restrictions or phaseouts due to high toxicity to living organisms, environmental persistence, potential for bioaccumulation, or potential depletion of the ozone layer. - Purchase and use of pesticides that fall in the World Health Organization classes IA and IB, or in class II if they are likely to be used by, or be accessible to, lay personnel, farmers or others without training, equipment and facilities to handle, store and apply these products properly. - Physical resettlement of people (voluntary or involuntary). - Purchase of land. - Activities that have the potential to cause adverse impacts to critical habitat. - Activities that introduce or use potentially invasive, non-indigenous species. - Removal or alteration of any tangible cultural heritage.