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To provide financial assistance to support projects that will enhance sustainable conservation programs to ensure effective, long-term conservation of African elephants. The African Elephant Conservation Fund supports projects that promote conservation through: Applied research on elephant populations and their habitat, including surveys and monitoring; Development and execution of elephant conservation management plans; Compliance with applicable treaties and laws that prohibit or regulate the taking or trade of elephants or regulate the use and management of elephant habitat; Conservation education and community outreach; Enhanced protection of at-risk elephant populations; Efforts to decrease human-elephant conflict; Habitat conservation and management; Protected area/reserve management in important elephant range; Strengthening local capacity to implement conservation programs; Transfrontier elephant conservation; and Wildlife inspection, law enforcement, and forensics skills.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
Program received 35 applications and anticipates issuing 20 awards. The program received 36 applications, and issued 13 awards.
38 applications received and issued 17 awards.
In FY 19 the program received 44 applications and has issued 7 awards to date.
No projects were selected for 2020.
In FY21 the program received 83 applications, with 22 awards pending release.
In FY22, the program issued 23 new awards (associated with prior FY NOFOs) and provided one financial modification to an active award. The program shifted in FY21 from an annual announcement to a biennial announcement (the next NOFO will be released in FY23).
Program issued one new award (associated with prior FY NOFO) and provided four financial modifications to active awards. The program shifted in FY21 from an annual announcement to a biennial announcement, with the latest NOFO (announcement F24AS00060) released in the last quarter of FY23.
Program received 66 new applications for the latest NOFO (announcement F24AS00060) and anticipates issuing between 15 and 20 new awards.
Program anticipates providing 1-5 financial modifications to active awards. In FY21, the program shifted from an annual announcement to a biennial announcement and does not anticipate receiving new applications or issuing new awards until FY26.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
