Environment Protection: British Overseas Territories

(asked on 2nd October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on the design and implementation of the Darwin Plus programme.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 12th October 2020

The current round of applications for the Darwin Plus programme closed on 8 September 2020, with 52 applications received from across the overseas territories.

In March 2020 the Chancellor announced an increase in funding for Darwin Plus and work is on-going to replace or enhance the existing programme. We will use the 2019 Call for Evidence on “Safeguarding the Environment in the British Overseas Territories” to inform this redesign and we aim to launch the new scheme in early 2021.


Some changes have already been made by making Darwin Plus and any successor programme a non-Official Development Assistance (ODA) fund only with ODA territories now being eligible for funding from the main Darwin Initiative programme. Making this change will make both funds more efficient and streamlined.

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