Deadline: 04-Apr-22
The Kiwa Initiative is pleased to announce a call for ideas for the Regional Projects to facilitate access to climate and biodiversity funding for project leaders in the area.
The Regional project leaders can benefit from technical support provided by the Pacific Community (SPC) or the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
Objectives
The biodiversity sub-criterion concerns the type of Nature-based Solutions that will be developed in the project. These include the following objectives:
- Preservation of functional and healthy ecosystems; – Improvement of ecosystem management through sustainable human activities;
- Restoration of degraded ecosystems or the creation of ecosystems / ecological engineering.
Scope
Projects must implement biodiversity conservation activities for adaptation to climate change through Nature-based Solutions.
Particular attention will be paid to:
- Demonstrating links between project activities/outputs and climate change adaptation;
- The implementation of cost-effective and efficient Nature-based Solutions with measurable and multiple benefits for climate change adaptation, biodiversity and human well-being;
- Project governance: active involvement of national authorities, public institutions and local communities from design to evaluation.
- Alignment of proposed projects with regional, national or local policy frameworks.
- Effective regional cooperation (a regional project must involve at least two countries or territories).
Project Themes
Each project submitted must comply with criteria related to climate change adaptation and biodiversity protection. The climate change adaptation subcriterion implies that project leaders must:
- Determine the context of the risks, vulnerabilities and impacts associated with climate change at the project intervention scale;
- Indicate in the project documentation an intention to address the risks, vulnerabilities and impacts identified at the project intervention scale;
- Demonstrate a direct link between the identified risks, vulnerabilities and impacts and the funded activities at the project intervention scale.
Funding Information
- The amount of funding provided by the Kiwa Initiative for each of the regional projects is between a minimum of EUR 1.5 million and a maximum of EUR 5 million.
- The projects must close on March 2026 at the latest.
Geographical Scope
- The Initiative covers PICTs for which AFD is authorized to intervene, as well as countries and territories eligible for official development assistance (ODA).
- The Initiative covers 19 PICTs: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Timor Leste, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna
Eligibility Criteria
- Promoters must be legal entities of public or private not-for-profit organizations, natural persons not being eligible.
- The beneficiaries relevant to regional projects are:
- Local or national authorities and public institutions from the 19 eligible countries and territories
- Regional organizations (CROP, Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific) recognized by the Pacific Island Countries and Territories, such as SPC or SPREP
- International NGOs
Cross-cutting Criteria
- A regional project must include at least two countries and/or territories
- Regional projects must necessarily contain a relevant regional component (pooling, capitalization, sharing) and may be deployed both in the French territories in the Pacific and the 16 other eligible PICTs.
- The project must clearly demonstrate alignment with local, regional, and national strategies
- The project must aim to reduce gender inequalities and include vulnerable populations
- The project must analyze social and environmental issues
For more information, visit https://kiwainitiative.org/en/submit-your-project/a-new-call-for-ideas-for-regional-project-is-open
