Supported projects
Here are the results of what KNCF has been supported so far.
Statistics of the Performance of the support
Nature Conservation Project Support
Since its establishment in 1992, 1,736 project have received over 5 billion yen from KNCF (Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund)/KCNC (Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation). KNCF/KCNC supports project such as biodiversity conservation related to natural resources management and rare species conservation as well as plantation or environmental education.
Following the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework (GBF) as a new global goal in the field of biodiversity at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in December 2022, the new funding policy of the Fund is to support projects that contribute to achieving the 23 targets of the GBF as well as In addition, the Fund has decided to establish a new grant menu and make contributions to programs implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
1. application under the new grant categories
1)Support for small-scale projects (projects applying for less than 1 million yen/year)
i)Support for organizations applying to the KNCF for the first time and
ii)Support for grassroots NGOs in least developed countries
2) Support for medium-scale projects
3) Support for large-scale, multi-year projects (up to 20 million yen/year)
2.Contribution of 300 million yen over six years to the Satoyama Initiative Promotion Program implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The SATOYAMA Initiative Promotion Program (Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative, abbreviated as COMDEKS) is a program to promote the Satoyama Initiative. The program, called COMDEKS (Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative), was established in June 2011 by the Japan Fund for Biodiversity (JFIB), a non-profit organization established by the Japanese government to support local activities in natural environments such as rice paddies and reservoirs that have been maintained and managed by humans (so-called “secondary natural environments”), The program was established in June 2011 by the Japan Fund for Biodiversity, which was funded by the Japanese government.
*As of the end of March 2023
Total Figures For 30-Year Period
Categorical Breakdown of Project Type (Amount of support)
[Categorical Breakdown of Project Type]
The situation of main grant by country (FY2018)
Support project 2023
A list of projects decided to support in FY2023