Nominations and Proposals
The recipients of the ISE Darrell Posey Fellowship for Ethnoecology and Traditional Resource Rights Small Grants Awards and the Field Fellowship (2009 – 2011) have been selected.
The next award will be an additional two Small Grants in 2011.
Background information on the grants:
In the past, only the Oxford University-based Fellowship was awarded through a direct application process, and Small Grants and Field Fellowships were by nomination only. This was intended to make the process more inclusive because many groups and individuals undertaking grassroots work on resource rights and management, and applied ethnobiological research, are not experienced fundraisers and do not have large international networks. Nominators were drawn from a wide range of indigenous peoples’, conservation, and other non-profit and civil society organizations, as well as research institutions, and the ISE Board, past and present.
However, so many individuals have asked to apply directly for the Small Grants and Field Fellowships that we decided to accept both nominations and direct applications. In order to make the program as accessible as possible, to as wide a range of groups and individuals as possible, letters of support/recommendation will continue to be weighed more heavily than the style or polish of a proposal, although proposals and nominations will primarily be evaluated on the strength of the work undertaken by prospective recipients.
For information on the Criteria used for Evaluation of Nominations and Proposals.
For more information on the Background of the Fellowship Program Structure.
For more information contact: Natasha Duarte at isecoordinator@gmail.com