The Biodiversity Partners Program (BiPP) is an innovative acceleration and learning program on biodiversity using mixed learning methods, that is action oriented, transdisciplinary and local, and aims to develop a community of practitioners on a regional scale.
The BiPP program has a two-fold approach:
○ to use accelerator models to scale impactful projects and create a community of change makers.
○ to use nature-based learning methods to deploy pro-nature projects in various sectors and a common culture on biodiversity and ecological transition.
The Biodiversity Partners Program (BiPP) is an innovative acceleration and learning program on biodiversity using mixed learning methods, that is action oriented, transdisciplinary and local, and aims to develop a community of practitioners on a regional scale.
The BiPP program has a two-fold approach:
○ to use accelerator models to scale impactful projects and create a community of change makers.
○ to use nature-based learning methods to deploy pro-nature projects in various sectors and a common culture on biodiversity and ecological transition.
Nature based solutions & indigenous knowledge systems
Exploring deep ecology & systems thinking
Developing your ecological leardership skills
Meeting innovative projects and their methods
6 days business sprint
Experimenting start up methods through a design sprint
Accelerating your project with a dedicated experts team
Working on your value proposition, marketing and business model
2 month virtual program to develop business skills
Learning new tools & applying them to your project with coaching from facilitators
Workshops to grow your project with your peers
The Biodiversity Partners Program (BiPP) is an acceleration program & a training course. The training blends the most recent research about biodiversity regeneration and nature based solutions, as well as innovative practices about our relationships to the other than humain beings. The acceleration program brings advanced pratical support to implement pro-nature projects. The entire program is a 4 month journey that brings together change makers from all horizons to strengthen their project and accelerate a community on pro nature projects.
In 2021, the Biodiversity Partners Program is aimed at Southern African projects holders and transition actors in the field of biodiversity regeneration in the region (Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana). It gathers entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs from a wide diversity of sectors and doesn't know boundaries as long as the ambition is high for nature !
• Have a project within the institution you are working in or a project on your own that aims the restoration of biodiversity in Southern Africa.
• Be available and willing to carry out the overall program
• Enter your profile and project here and participate in the selection process.
The Biodiversity Partners Program (BiPP), financed by the French Development Agency (AFD), is completely free.
The BiPP will start June 7 and will end on October 2.
Candidates will be selected on the motivation of the applicant, the impact on biodiversity restoration and the potential in terms of innovation of its project. The potential of scalability and replicability of the project is also a criteria the jury will consider.
The Biodiversity Partners Program aims the acceleration of new regenerative practices that are not yet widespread. We understand innovative and pro nature projects as projects that does not simply aims the conservation of nature, but encompass a much deeper ambition to revitalize all life (new agricultural practices, biodiversity in cities, ecosystems restoration etc…)
Confirmations of participation with the selected candidates will be undergone from May 7 to May 13, when the final list of participants will be announced.
Explore phase from June 7th to July 2nd : 5h per week of new insights and collective work.
Break from July 3 to July 20th
Experiment phase on the 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29 of July : 6 full days of work on your project.
Grow phase from August 2 to October 2nd : 2 month of work at your own pace.
You will be asked to download a resume, and if you want, you will be able to download every document you find interesting for the jury to consider your application.
You can also download a video describing you, your project and what this program will bring you, it is not mandatory but will be appreciated by the jury.
A jury will select the participants based on the criterias mentioned above. It is composed by representatives of the institutions co-creating this program : the French Development Agency (AFD), the Afican Management Institute (AMI), the Sustainability Institute and Edtech Connections.
