Hans Hoheisen

Funding Strategy

Ensuring Hans Hoheisen's legacy will benefit our environment for generations to come

As a grant maker, the Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust facilitates the work of conservation bodies which are Public Benefit Organisations aimed at protecting, restoring and improving the sustainable use of South African species and eco-systems. In support of our Mission, our funding strategy has five overlapping themes:

Objective: To reduce direct pressures on biodiversity with regard to species, habitat and eco-systems
Outcomes: Funding applications submitted must demonstrate 1 or more of the following intended outcomes

  • Reduction in the rate of loss, degradation of natural habitats including forests and fresh water systems
    • Conservancies / promoting stewardship / corridors
  • Improvement in eco-system functioning, restoration and resilience
    • Invasive alien species identification, control, eradication and prevention of reintroduction
  • Reduction in indigenous fauna and flora species decline

Objective: To limit the extent of climate change
Outcomes: Funding applications submitted must demonstrate 1 or more of the following intended outcomes

  • Improvement in and protection of carbon stocks
    • Reforestation
    • Forest management


  • Minimising waste
    • Community based green recycling initiatives

Objective: To assist Public Benefit Organisations to undertake research into the overlapping biodiversity conservation, climate change, environmental governance and advocacy areas.
Outcomes: Funding applications submitted must demonstrate 1 or more of the following intended outcomes

  • Collation and distillation of learning from existing research into knowledge that can be applied
  • Meeting priority knowledge gaps
  • Initiating and implementing innovative conservation outcomes

Objective:To assist conservation bodies to achieve an improvement in environmental governance and advocacy.
Outcomes: Funding applications submitted must demonstrate 1 or more of the following intended outcomes

  • Increased public participation in and submissions made on draft legislation
  • Capacity building for enhanced environmental advocacy on the part of community based organisations
  • Law enforcement officials undergo appropriate accredited training and are able to effectively monitor and ensure compliance to environmental policy

Objective:To increase the number of environmentally conscious citizens
Outcomes: Funding applications submitted must demonstrate 1 or more of the following intended outcomes

  • Primary and Secondary school learners participate in well-designed environmental awareness programmes that complement the school curriculum and /or its gaps
  • Members of community based organisations acquire increased new environmental knowledge through well-designed capacity building programmes and are able to apply this knowledge in community run environmental programmes
  • Post Matriculants acquire theoretical and practical knowledge that ready them for careers in the conservation field via accredited certificate and diploma courses
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