North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) Mexico Grant

North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) Mexico Grant is a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Bird Habitat Conservation that funds wetlands conservation projects in Mexico to protect, improve, restore, and manage wetland ecosystems and habitats for migratory birds and other wildlife.

The program promotes partnerships between public agencies and conservation groups and supports the long-term conservation of wetlands-associated migratory bird populations, including waterfowl, shorebirds, and landbirds. Eligible funded activities include acquisition of wetland properties, habitat restoration, conservation easements, and management agreements. Eligible applicants are organizations with projects in Mexico.

Award amounts vary; applications are submitted through GrantSolutions and require SAM. gov registration.

F24AS00006 ‐ NAWCA Fiscal Year 2024 Mexico Grant # North American Wetlands Conservation Act # Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) # 15.

623 # Notice of Funding Opportunity and Application Instructions Submission Deadline: May 17, 202 3 (due at 11:59 PM , U.S. Eastern Time ) Description of Funding Opportunity: North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) Mexico Program Authorizing Legislation: North American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 USC Ch.

64) Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: We are collecting this information in accordance with the legislative authority listed above. Your response is required to obtain or retain a benefit. We will use the information you provide to conduct a competitive review and select projects for funding and, if awarded, to evaluate performance.

We may not conduct or sponsor and you are not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currentl y valid OMB control number. We estimate that it will take you on average about 80 hours to complete an initial application, including time to maintain records, and gather information. Actual time for these activities will vary depending on program -specific requirements.

You may send comments on the burden estimate or any other aspect of this information collection to the Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041 -3803. SOLICITATIONS: The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) program does not use social media or contact individuals by phone to solicit, review, or make awards.

Government staff will NOT call or message you requesting money in order to b e eligible for an award. Please report any information and documentation that you have related to such incidents to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (https://www. ic3.

gov ) and your local law enforcement authorities. Table of Contents I. Important changes in these instructions for the new Fiscal Year III.

Applying for a NAWCA Grant IV. Steps to apply for a grant opportunity in GrantSolutions V. Steps to register in SAM.

gov VI. Keys to developing a successful proposal VIII. Bilingual glossary for NAWCA Mexico 1: Impact on Cultural and Historic Sites A.

2: Evaluation and Monitoring > B.

2: Spatial Data/GIS Shapefiles D: List of Previous NAWCA Projects E: Progress Report on current NAWCA projects G: Letters of Cooperation and Support J: Organizational Capacity (only new applicants) K: Overlap/duplication of efforts North American Waterfowl Conservation Regions (Map and list) List of Priority Shorebirds, Waterbirds and Landbirds Key Wetlands: Map of Ramsar sites Key Wetlands for Waterfowl (Map) Key Wetlands for Shorebirds (Map) Key Wetlands for Waterbirds (Map) DESCRIPTION OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY AND AWARD INFORMATION The NAWCA Mexico program promotes partnerships between public agencies and groups interested in: a) protecting, improving, restoring, and managing an appropriate distribution and diversity of wetland ecosystems and other habitats for wetlands -associated migratory birds and other fish and wildlife in North America; b) maintaining and improving the current distributions of wetlands - associated migratory bird populations; and c) maintaining an abu ndance of waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans) and other populations of wetlands -associated migratory birds consistent with the objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, Waterbird Conservation Plan for the Americas, Partners in Flight Bird Conservation Plan, and other international obligations contained in the treaties and migratory bird conventions and other agreements with Canada, Mexico, and other countries.

Proposals to the NAWCA Mexico program should demonstrate how the activities of partners would encourage sustainable and effective programs for the long -term conservation of wetlands -associated migratory birds.

NAWCA funds wetlands conservation projects that include one or more of these: a) the acquis ition of property containing wetlands ecosystems and associated habitats, including water rights, where the acquired land will be administered for its long -term conservation and for the benefit of migratory birds, fish, and other wildlife that depend on it ; b) restoration, enhancement, or management of wetlands ecosystems and associated habitats, where these activities will be conducted on lands and waters that will be administered for their long -term conservation and for the benefit of migratory birds, fis h, and other wildlife that depend on them; or c) in Mexico only, activities that involve technical training, education, sustainable -use studies, or organizational infrastructure - building needed to develop or strengthen wetlands conservation and management capabilities.

A proposal may request up to $1,000,000 in grant funds; few proposals request more than $500,000. Important changes in these instructions for the Fiscal Year 202 4 (FY2 4) cycle 1. Replaced the RAMSAR map with a link.

Added or updated links to interactive IBA and WHSRN maps: BirdLife Data Zone ; avesmx. conabi o. gob.

mx/Mapa. html# ; https://whsrn. org/whsrn - 2.

Added tips to the section “Keys to developing a successful proposal” , including subheadings how to describe your monitoring (surve ying) of birds and other environmental variables. 3. In the section “V.

D. Development of infrastructure”, further emphasize d the importance of sharing and using your monitoring data. 4.

There are other changes; please read the full document carefully. • The English version of these application instructions is the official version. A Spanish translation is provided as a courtesy.

• You must submit your proposal through GrantSolutions. gov for it to be eligible; merely sending an email with your proposal is not sufficient. In addition to submitting it through GrantSolutions.

gov, you should also email all elements of the proposal, combined into a single PDF file, to dbhc@fws. gov (the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of Bird Habitat Conservat ion), lurbano@semarnat. gob.

mx and miguel. flores@semarnat. gob.

mx . • GrantSolutions and SAM. gov are free services.

Do not pay for your registration and do not provide any information to scammers who may contact you. The proposal must be submitted in English. Please also submit a copy in Spanish to SEMARNAT/DGVS at lurbano@semarnat.

gob. mx , with copies to miguel. flores@semarnat.

gob. mx and dbhc@fws. gov .

The Spanish version wi ll be considered a subordinate version of your proposal; the English version submitted through GrantSolutions will be the official version. (Please do not include the Spanish version in your GrantSolutions application package.) If you only send a Spanish v ersion, your proposal will not be considered.

The cost of translation can be included in the budget as an administrative cost. • Describe how you will share any data and information that is produced by your project with the public or with other key organizations. Whenever possible and reasonable, bird survey data should be made public, for example by uploading it to eBird ( https://ebird.

org/home ) or AKN (http://avianknowledge. net ). • Eligibility criteria are shown in https://www.

fws. gov/media/north -american - wetlands -conservation -act -mexico -grant -proposal -eligibility -criteria - • You must include a project abstrac t summary in GrantSolutions; we explain how in • In the section, “Description of Migratory Bird Resources and other wildlife”, you may indicate up to 10 priority species each for waterfowl, shorebirds, waterbirds, and landbirds.

• Note changes in the section, “Other wetland dependent species”, and the new list, “Priority migrant, wetland -associated shorebirds, waterbirds and landbirds listed in the U.S. Endangered Species Act (June 2021) or on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Birds of Conservation • Understand the eligibility of in -kind and “old” match; we explain it in these instructions. • The acreage conversion factor is 1 hectare = 2. 47 (U.S.) acres.

• Understand the distinction between restoration and enhancement. • Submit a copy of your proposal as a courtesy to the Sonoran Joint Venture if your project sites are in the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa or Nayarit, or in the Sierra Madre Occidental Bird Conservation Region i n Chihuahua and Durango; we explain how in these instructions.

• See the tips in the section “Keys to developing a successful proposal”. • Review the eligibility criteria document, available at North American Wetlands Conservation Act Mexico Grant Proposal Eligibility Criteria & • Maintenance of a physical structure that was a funded with grant or match in a prior NAWCA or NMBCA project is not an eligible activity.

Grantees and partners are responsible for repairing or replacing structures, regardless of whether they fail prematurely or deteriorat e sooner than expected. For example, if the construction of a levee was paid for during a NAWCA grant 15 years ago and the useful life of that levee should have been twenty years, you cannot include the cost of repairing or replacing it. • Duplicative work is not an eligible activity.

If you propose an activity on a tract that is or was previously part of a NAWCA or NMBCA project, by any grantee organization, you must show that the activity does not duplicate activities that were part of the other project. For example, if NAWCA match funds paid for the restoration of a wetland site in 2009, you cannot propose restoration on the same site in 2022.

You could propose a different activity, e.g., treatment of noxious weeds, on the same site. You n eed to explain that you will not duplicate work on specific tracts, describe how the new activity is complementary, and include a map of current or previous NAWCA and NMBCA project work by any organization in the area (see “C. Project Description”, and sec tion 12 of the “Tract table”).

Unless it is clear to us that an activity is not duplicative, we will not allow it in a project. If you are acquiring land, protecting land through another legal mechanism, or restoring, enhancing or managing habitat, you must include a Tract Table . We added a more thorough explanation of the information needed in the Tract Table.

The table must include the longevity of the work and any retreatments during and after the project period. • Restoration and enhancement are considered unique and different activities under NAWCA; the hectares to be accomplished under each should be described separately. If a tract will be both restored and enhanced, the number of hectares to be enhanced (that ar e also restored) should be shown in parenthesis.

(See “Definitions of project types”, “Purpose/Project Type”, “Components table”, “Tract table”). • Proposals should demonstrate how the activities of partners will encourage the long -term conservation of wetla nds -associated migratory birds.

• Restoration/enhancement can only occur on tracts that are protected by a long -term legal mechanism, and the duration of both the legal mechanism and of the restoration/enhancement should be made explicit in the Tract Table. Long -term protection means a minimum of 10 years after the start of the grant project.

• Any tract that you acquire with grant or match must be appraised by an independent real property appraiser licensed or certified in Mexico in accordance with Mexican appraisal • There is a new reporting responsibility for tract acquisitions, SF -429 Real Property Status Report forms (applies to fee or easement acquisitions). • Law enforcement is not eligible as a grant or match cost.

• Applicants who have never applied to NAWCA for funding must provide additional information. See Annex J. • Match letters must include all items listed, and state that the match contribution does not originate from US Federal funds and have not been used to match any other US Federal • Letters of support are required from all owners of tracts where restoration, enhancement or management activities will take place; see Annex G.

• All proposals must include a “Required Indirect Cost Statement ”; see IV. A. 22.

• Important changes since the Fiscal Year 2017 cycle: o Created an Eligibility criteria document, available at https://www. fws. gov/media/north -american -wetlands -conservation -act - mexico -grant -proposal -eligibility -criter ia -processes .

o Clarified that a proposal may request up to $1,000,000 in grant funds; few proposals request more than $500,000. o Clarified that organizations from any country may submit proposals, but all grant and match funds must be spent in Mexico (includ ing administrative or indirect costs). o Clarified that match contributions from entities not located in Mexico are eligible (except US Federal entities), as long as they are spent in Mexico.

o If you will band birds, we ask for certain information. o If you are citing an endangered or priority species, specify where it is listed; see III. A.

b. o Revised the scoring criteria in section D, by assigning two points that were o Revised maps and bird lists. o Added a bilingual glossary.

o You are now required to provide a Negotiated Indirect Cost Rates statement and Conflict of Interest Disclosures. o Added information about impact on cultural and historic sites, evaluating the success of your activities, ineligible costs, vehicles, Program Income, match cost reporting, and tract tables. o We ask for more detail about the success of previous phases (Annex D).

o We ask for more detail about the biological and socioeconomic values of wetlands. o Annual budgets are no longer required. o The scoring criteria used initially to rank proposals are now shown in this document.

o Applicants must provide a statement that describes any overlaps between the proposed project and any other active or anticipated projects. See Annex L (Required Overlap/Duplication Statement). o Applicants must discuss the impact of changing environmental conditions in a different section than in prior years.

Applying for a NAWCA Mexico Grant This funding opportunity is advertised on grants. gov. However, you must apply directly within GrantSolutions, www. grantsolutions.

gov ; do not apply through grants. gov . To apply, you must first set up a GrantSolutions account, including obtaining the correct user roles within the system.

At a minimum, you will need to assign the following two roles within GrantSolutions: “Grantee Principal Investigator” (PI/PD, the project officer or lead) and “Grantee Administrative Officer” (ADO). You must include a project abstract summary in GrantSolutions. This summary should include the total number of acres affected, project location (i.e., Mexican states in which activities take place), benefits to birds, and main activities.

You may copy the proposal summary from the first page or your proposal narrative but note that there is a 4,000 -character limit. You must also fill out the SF - 424 and SF -424 D forms in GrantSolutions. (You may omit the SF -424C form.)

The narrative portion (your proposal) and supporting documentation should be attached to your GrantSolutions After you complete your application in GrantSolutions, email the application confirmation number, your proposal, and all supporting documents to both U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Divis ion of Bird Habitat Conservation (FWS/DBHC) at dbhc@fws. gov and to SEMARNAT/DGVS at lurbano@semarnat. gob.

mx and miguel. flores@semarnat. gob.

mx . If you send us a proposal by email but do not submit your application through GrantSolutions, your proposal will not be Grantsolutions. gov, Grants.

gov, and SAM. gov are free websites. Do not pay for your registrati on and do not provide any information to any scammers who may contact you.

The FWS is in the process of a website reconstruction that will affect the FWS links that provide additional information in this document. If a link is broken, please visit https://www. fws.

gov and search for “NAWCA Mexico grant standards” or “NAWCA Mexico eligibility criteria” to find those Steps to ap ply for a grant opportunity in GrantSolutions: Getting Started: All applicants/grantees must be registered in GrantSolutions: https://home. grantsolutions. gov/home/ .

Visit the GrantSolutions Frequently Asked Questions page . Applicants must first request ( Getti ng Started – Request A User Account ) and properly set up their GrantSolutions account, including obtaining the correct user roles within the system. Please watch the applicant and Grant Recipient training v ideos: https://home.

grantsolutions. gov/home/grantsolutions - New Applicant Requests in GrantSolutions: New users apply here: https://home. grantsolutions.

gov/home/wp -content/uploads/2021/06/Grant -Recipient -User -Account -Request -Form -2021 -1. pdf or here : https://www. grantsolutions.

gov/gsrstatic/registration/initiate - request . Submit the form without filling in the requested “grant number”. Help desk: Please send all Gra ntSolutions related help desk questions/issues to help@grantsolutions.

gov . If you do not receive a response or if the response did not resolve the issue, please ask that the ticket be “escalated to Tier 2 or 3”. Very important: enter all requested inform ation under GRANTEE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI/PD) and the GRANTEES ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (ADO).

Do not forget the username and the correctly spelled email address. Applying for t his grant announcement , after your organization’s account is set up: Your application will consist of a Proposal Narrative, Project Abstract Summary, Partner Contribution Statements, a Standard Form 424 (“Application for Federal Assistance”), a SF -424A “Budget”, an Excel spreadsheet of your proposal narrative budget, and a proje ct area shapefile or .

kmz file. Your shapefile cannot be uploaded to GrantSolutions and must be sent to the FWS email address; the subject line should be your project title and the GrantSolutions’ application number. The GrantSolutions’ application number will start with FWS -MB202XXXXXXX.

The NAWCA Mexico grant program’s CFDA number and formal name are found on the first page of these instructions. Steps to register in SAM. gov: Registering in GrantSolutions requires an active SAM.

gov registration. 1. You must have an active System for Award Management (SAM .

gov ) registration to apply through GrantSolutions. gov, to receive an award, and to be able to receive funds. We strongly encourage applicants to initiate this process at least 6 weeks before our deadline, because it can be a complex process.

If your organization is registered with SAM. gov but your status is not listed as “active” , you must update your registration prior to submitting an application. You must renew and reva lidate the SAM registration at least every 12 months and ensure that all information is up to date.

2. If you encounter problems with SAM or GrantSolutions, contact the GrantSolutions or SAM Keys to developing a successful proposal These are some elements of a good proposal that facilitate evaluation and selection. 1.

Proposals that do not comply with requirements and formats will not be considered. 2. Do not include numbers, hectares, acres, or other measurements in the title.

However, if the proposal is for a new phase of a previous NAWCA project, please give the proposal the same name as in the previous phase and add the Roman numeral that pertains to the phase, at the end of the title (e.g., “IV”). 3. Carefully consider the proposal’s goals and objectives.

In NAWCA, “goals” are the ultimate results of this project (after the two years of the grant project), while the “objectives” are the intermediate steps necessary to reach that end and will be completed before the end of th e two -year grant project . The activities are the actions necessary to complete those objectives: activities > objectives > goals.

There should be fewer goals in comparison to objectives and a lot less in comparison to the number of activities. These concepts are the key for the evaluators to understand the intent of the proposal. Include a single table that presents the goals, objectives, and activities.

See the suggested work plan format below. 4. Carefully review the scoring criteria (see “Scoring Criteria” below) that we use to initially rank proposals, and consider each criterion as you develop the various sections of your proposal.

As you write your proposal narrative, use the subheadings and sections from these instructions; this will help reviewers give you a score for every criterion. 5. Ensure that all ac tivities and costs are eligible.

The eligibility criteria document is available at https://www. fws. gov/media/north -amer ican -wetlands -conservation -act - mexico -grant -proposal -eligibility -criteria -processes .

6. The number of acres under each category that directly affects habitat (protection through a legal mechanism, restoration, enhancement, and management) in the tract table must be the same as the acres in the summary, table of components, description of objectives, maps, and shapefiles.

Ensure that every acquisition, establishment of legal mechanism, restoration, enhancement , and management that has a concrete objective in t erms of acres is listed in the tract table. Each tract listed must have a corresponding polygon in one of the maps; use the same name for the polygons on the 7.

Correctly classify any restoration (of habitat that has disappeared or is severely degraded) and enhancement (of habitat that still exists and functions) activities. 8. Your cash match must be at least as high as your grant request; in -kind match does not count towards this minimum.

9. If a match letter does not include every element listed in the match letter section, that 10. The cost for buying, maintaining , or using drones or similar equipment is not allowed.

11. Double -check your arithmetic. All totals and subtotals on the first page, in the ta ble of resources, table of components and match letters must be identical to those in the 12.

Include the correct version of your indirect cost statement, even if you do not claim 13. The proposal PDF should include the narrative and all annexes, in a single PDF file, in the same order as that given in these instructions. Show the submission date at the top of the first page.

Only shapefiles should be attached separately. 14. Keep your registrations up to date in GrantSolutions.

gov and SAM. gov for the next 12 months; if your proposal is selected, these must be active. 1.

If the proposal is approved, all the information and materials presented with the proposal will become part of the official contr act between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/DBHC and the applicant and as such will be available in public files. 2. In the process of evaluating the proposals, there are occasions when a new version of the proposal or a new version of the budget may be required.

Each new version of the proposal and of the budget tables must be renamed as V1, or V2, etc. and the date of resubmission must be clearly indicated on each document. 3. After receipt of each proposal, a four -digit “project number” wi ll be assigned.

Please use this number in all correspondence regarding this proposal and include it in all the budget tables if they are subsequently revised. 4. If your project sites are in the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa or Nayarit, or in the Sierra Madre Occidental Bird Conservation Region (BCR 34, https://nabci - us.

org/resources/mexico -bird -conservation -region -map/ ) in Chihua hua and Durango, we suggest that you submit a copy of your proposal as a courtesy to the Sonoran Joint Venture (https://sonoranjv. org ). 5.

If your project sites are in states that border the southern frontier of the Rio Grande (Chihuahuan Desert and Tamaulipa s Brushlands Bird Conservation Regions; part of the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Guanajuato or Querétaro), it is suggested that you send a courtesy copy to the Rio Grande Joint Venture. See website: http://www. rgjv.

org/about. html. 6.

Projects must comply with the NAWCA Mexico grant guidelines, available at Mexico NAWCA Grant Administration Standards North American Wetlands Conservation Act | FWS. gov . (An unofficial, courtesy translation , “Lineamientos para la Administración de Subsidios” is available at http://www.

fws. gov/migratorybirds/pdf/grants/Lineamientos. pdf .)

7. In the NAWCA Mexico program, we use the following definitions. Bilingual glossary for NAWCA Mexico: These are mostly passerines.

There is no single word that translates “waterbirds” into Spanish. The term “aves acuáticas”, as used by most professionals in Latin America, is not synonymous with “waterbirds” as used in the USA (where it includes rails, marshbirds, wading birds, and marine birds, but excludes waterfowl and shorebirds).

Rather, that Spanish term includes all birds dependent on wetlands or marine habitats, i.e., it does not exclude waterfowl or shorebirds. According to the 2012 “Desarrollo de la Base Metodológica para el Inventario Nacional de Hu medales de México (citing CONANP), an “ave acuática ” is any bird that depends ecologically on a wetland area. These include, for example, egrets and herons.

Note that the species normally described by this term in the USA are not identical to the species described by this term in Mexico. This is because “colonial” refers to breeding colonies. Neotropical migrants that nest colonially in the USA do not congregate during their non -re productive season, i.e., during their stay in Mexico (and therefore are not called “colonial” by Mexican professionals).

Conversely, resident species that do congregate and breed in Mexico (and therefore are called “colonial” by Mexican professionals) are generally not neotropical migrants. Unlike in the USA, “anátidos” is a subset of “aves acuáticas ”. Some Mexican publications use the term “aves acuáticas ” to indicate “waterfowl”, but this is not common practice in Latin America.

Shorebirds Aves Playeras Unlike in the USA, “aves playeras”, in Latin America, is considered to be a subset of “aves acuáticas ”. Marine birds Aves marinas Wetlands Humedales Uplands Tierras altas The following four categories are used to assess the proposal’s activities, objectives and goals in relation to the North American Wetland Conservation Act (the Act) and its application in Mexico: A.

Resource Description (30 points) – One of the purposes of the Act is to maintain current or improved distributions of wetland associated migratory bird populations.

This category looks at the bird populations affected to determine to what degree and magnitude the activities of the proposal Priority Migratory Waterfowl (see list below) 10 points Priority Migratory Shorebirds (see list below) 5 points Priority Migratory Waterbirds (see list below) 5 points Priority Migratory Landbirds (see list below) 5 points Other Birds/Wildlife (including MX endemic and listed species) 5 points B.

Project Location (25 points) – Another stated purpose in the Act is to protect, enhance, restore, and manage an appropriate distribution and diversity of wetland ecosystems and habitats.

This category evaluates the context of how the proposal fits into the landscape efforts, and if work being completed is appropriate and effe ctive for the proposed sites, as well as whether or not the work contributes to meet migratory bird biological needs and contributes to the greater benefit of Geographic Location (landscape context; see text below) 5 points Value of Wetlands (Ramsar Map) 5 points Mexico regional/local impact 3 points Key wetlands for waterfowl (see two Waterfowl maps) 3 points Key wetlands for shorebirds (see Map) 3 points Key wetlands for waterbirds (see Map) 3 points Key wetlands for landbirds (We have not included a map, but you may include one in your proposal, e.g., WHSRN (https://whsrn.

org/whsrn -sites/map -of -sites/ ), CONABIO (avesmx. conabio. gob.

mx/Mapa. html# ) or BirdLife ( BirdLife Data Zone ). You may also describe abundance, occurrence, seasonality, percent of total population of species, and relative importanc e of site in the region or country.)

C. Project Description (30 points) – This category evaluates the types, benefits, longevity and goals of the proposed activities to illustrate comprehensive and complete implementation.

It also considers how the activities address the current and potential future conditions for habitat and -project explanation and benefits -quantification of deliverables (e.g., number of acres) -longevity/duration of work/benefits (e.g., years that project is anticipated to -goals for each component of the proposal (e.g., enhance habitat for species X, or promote working lands and grazing to prevent habitat loss, etc.) -budget/tract (i.e., what is the cost for each project as described) Threats (i.e., reasons that the project is needed) 5 points Changing environmental conditions 3 points Special Considerations (e.g., unique aspects of the project) 2 points D.

Partnerships (15 points) – The Act encourages partnerships in delivering conservation, recognizing the importance of leveraging funds and gaining broad acceptance and participation in conservation efforts. Community Participation 3 points Number and Degree of Participation of Partners 5 points Unique Social Aspects of the Project 4 points ## PROPOSAL FORMAT GUIDELINES 1.

All elements of the proposal, except shapefiles, should be combined into one, single PDF file . Do not protect it with a password. The filename should be unique and include the acronym of the applicant organization.

2. Set the paper size to 8. 5×11 inches.

Single space and left -justify the text. Do not use headers, footers, or borders. The font should be no smaller than 11 points and in “Arial” (not “Arial narrow”).

Page margins should be half an inch (side, top and bottom). 3. Each page of the proposal must be numbered consecutively, locating the number on the 4.

All proposal sections must be numbered and organized according to the numbering and organization indicated in the instructions 5. Do not include text from the instructions, other than the title of sections. 6.

The cover page should not be in tabular format; do not include any type of borders or other 7. The location information on the cover page under 7. A.

must be given as latitude and longitude (degrees, minutes an d seconds). These coordinates must be precise (at a minimum, provide a central point). 8.

The cover page must include two tables: 7. B. Priority location and 10.

Table of Resources . Do not add other priority lists in table 7. B.

9. All measurements should be in metric units and their equivalents in the United States (hectares/acres, kilometers/miles, meters/feet, etc.). Please use this conversion factor: 1 hectare = 2.

47 (U.S.) acres. 10. Budget tables must show only U.S. dollars and indicate the rate of exchange at the time the proposal was developed.

11. The text in the maps, especially in the legend, should be in English wherever possible. I.

COVER PAGE: FY202 X NAWCA MEXICO PROGRAM PROPOSAL (See suggested cover The proposal summary is the principal part on which points are given to each proposal. The summary should give the information necessary for evaluation by the reviewer who needs to understand the purpose of the proposal and the most important details.

The rest of the proposal should contain more in -depth information to provide answers to whatever questions remain after review of the summary. It is suggested that the summary be developed after the rest of the proposal has been written so that the author can reflect on all details before writing the summary.

The Project Summary should begin on the second page after the Cover Page and should not exceed a maximum of three pages (pages 2 – 4). If you exceed this page limit, the text will be deleted. This summary should describe how you would conduct the activities of the proposal and the explanation for how they would be