USFWS Funding Opportunity: Native Hawaiian Community International Traditional Knowledge Project

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Funding Opportunity

Office of Native Hawaiian Relations: Native Hawaiian Community International Traditional Knowledge Project

Fiscal Year: 2021
F21AS00427

View & apply for the funding opportunity at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332924

For more information please contact Kaiini Kaloi, ESQ Director kaiini.kaloi@ios.doi.gov.

Due Date for Applications: 06/16/2021

Background

The Native Hawaiian Community (NHC) International Traditional Knowledge Project (Project) is a new pilot project to support the sharing among the NHC and other indigenous communities in the Pacific of traditional knowledge, indigenous ingenuity, and contemporary approaches to stewardship, resilience, and adaptation of their respective lands, waters, and natural and cultural resources and practices in the face of climate change and the expanding threat of invasive species. A particular focus of this Project is the management and control of invasive wildlife species that members of the NHC see as a subsistence food source but are also a threat to native species and their habitat. The protection of native species (e.g. endemic and indigenous) and their habitat with the goal of controlling losses of native species from invasive species and diseases also falls within this focus. Initiatives supported by this Project may concentrate efforts on terrestrial and/or aquatic (e.g., marine or freshwater) habitat impacted by invasive species in the Pacific Region; and will be between the NHC and Pacific indigenous communities outside of the United States and U.S. Territories.

Total Funding: $200,000

Expected Award Amount: $100,000

Expected # of Awards: 2

Eligible Applicants

• Native Hawaiian Organizations (NHO) as defined in the National Historic Preservation Act and Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. An active registration on the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Native Hawaiian Relations NHO List may be noted in the grant application as evidence that the NHO meets the definition in either of these two statutes. To register your NHO, go to www.doi.gov/hawaiian/nholist.
• Homestead Associations and HHCA Beneficiary Associations (collectively HBA) as defined in 43 CFR parts 47 & 48. An active registration on the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Native Hawaiian Relations HBA List may be noted in the grant application as evidence that the HBA meets either of the definitions listed in 43 CFR parts 47 & 48. To register your HBA, go to www.doi.gov/hawaiian/homestead-beneficiary-associations.
• The applying grantee must be able to demonstrate their knowledge or experience in successfully developing and executing the three phased program outlined in the Required Tasks section.
• The applying grantee must have a Letter of Interest/Support from the foreign indigenous community leader(s) with whom the grantee will engage in the cultural exchange.
• The applying grantee must have a current DUNS number for their NHO or HBA.
• All NHO/HBA participants supported by this grant must be an NHO or HBA member and be a U.S. Citizen.

For more information please contact Kaiini Kaloi, ESQ Director kaiini.kaloi@ios.doi.gov.