Up to $800,000 for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Projects – Kunming Biodiversity Fund

The 2026 Kunming Biodiversity Fund (KBF) Call for Proposals, administered in partnership with UNEP, supports developing countries with projects accelerating implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans.

Here’s what you can expect:

• Up to $500,000 for single-country projects

• Up to $800,000 for multi-country/regional projects

• Funding for ecosystem restoration and biodiversity protection

• Projects mainstreaming biodiversity into policies, regulations and planning

• Support for biodiversity resource mobilisation

• Projects addressing genetic resources and digital sequence information

• Proposals addressing several of the Fund's thematic areas are viewed favourably

• Projects can run for 12–24 months.

Who can apply?

• Developing-country Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

• Projects must be co-developed with a participating United Nations organisation

• The Fund directly finances the participating UN organisation

• NGOs and other non-UN organisations can participate as project sub-partners

• Projects need endorsement from the country's CBD national focal point or designated official within the lead ministry

• Multi-country proposals require endorsement from each participating country

• Involvement of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, women and young people is strongly encouraged.

Deadline: 15 November 2026 at 23:59 – OPEN.