The Neville Shulman Awards... the next level of capacity building.
For over a decade, Earthwatch's Capacity Building Programme has been operating the same successful model which sees learners being trained for two weeks on an Earthwatch project. But we have recently received funding to turn a number of our learners into project leaders.
Thanks to a donation from Neville Shulman CBE, we are able to offer 2 individuals the opportunity to implement an environmental research or education based project from proposal to completion. The awards will help the participants to:
- grow their skills and experience in conservation research
- develop successful research proposals to obtain funding and gain report writing experience
- plan and coordinate scientific research expeditions
- conduct research and add to the knowledge base on urgent environmental issues enhance, educate and engage local communities
- Six individuals are asked to submit a proposal and the two who submit the best will have their project sponsored. The four runners up will also receive funding to continue their training in environmental conservation.
This year the 6 individuals who are applying to have their projects supported for the 2008/09 awards can be seen to the right.