Initial support for C.A.P.E. was provided by
WWF, the
Mazda Wildlife Fund, and the
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. In 2004, the C.A.P.E. programme received a major boost with the receipt of two
Global Environment Facility grants: the $3 million Agulhas Biodiversity Initiative (through the
United Nations Development Programme), and the $11 million Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development project (through the
World Bank and UNDP). Both of these projects are due to be completed in April 2009.
The GEF investments have occurred together with and have complemented the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund five-year grant of $6 million to the Cape Floristic Region (CFR) from 2002, wrapping up in December 2006. 65 grants were made to organisations under four strategic directions, with a geographic focus on three mega-reserve corridors.
In financing the second decade of the C.A.P.E. programme, the following sources of finance will need to be drawn on: South African government sources (as part of the biodiversity conservation mandates of agencies in the three spheres of government), South African civil society sources, a potential CEPF Consolidation Grant, and other international donor sources.
- Find out more about how small biodiversity conservation projects in the CFR can apply for grant funding from the Table Mountain Fund.
