Provide strategic leadership and local knowledge to build a broad constituency of civil society groups working across institutional and geographic boundaries toward achieving the conservation goals described in the ecosystem profile for this region. Major functions include establishing and coordinating a process for solicitation of small grant applications, conducting due diligence to ensure sub-grantee applicant eligibility and capacity to comply with CEPF funding terms, convening experts to evaluate proposals, awarding all grant applications of $50,000 or less, managing the contracting of these grants and the disbursal of funds to grantees, and monitoring, tracking, and documenting small grant technical and financial performance.