Deadline: 03-Apr-2022
Nominations are now open for the Catalytic Grant Award at Gobeshona to foster and grow collaborations that emerge during the conference through discussions, session interactions, and networking. With the support provided by this award, the winning teams can continue developing their idea beyond the conference space.
This year at the 2nd Gobeshona Global Conference, attendees have the opportunity to apply for Catalytic Grant Awards.
The Catalytic Grant Awards are a joint effort by Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF) and implemented by International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). These awards aim to provide initial seed funding to incentivize partnerships and collaborations beyond events to develop ideas fostered during conferences like the Gobeshona Global Conference.
Objectives
- Increase incentives and opportunities for cross-disciplinary capacity development and ideation;
- Strengthen global community of practice on Locally-led Adaptation (LLA) and resilience;
- Strengthen southern leadership in the community of practice;
- Strengthen south-south and south-north knowledge exchange and collaboration; and actions on adaptation and resilience; and
- Create continuity between global conferences such as Gobeshona and Community Based Adaptation (CBA).
Award Details
Five winning teams will be awarded grants to implement their ideas about enhancing locally-led climate change adaptation and resilience. Each team will be awarded $5000 USD.
Eligibility Criteria
- The participants will create their own groups. Each team should contain 03 members.
- They expect team composition to be diverse such as bachelor’s or master’s students, academics, practitioners, community-based organizations or grassroots federation representatives.
- Groups consisting of members from different regions will be highly prioritized.
- Teams should be balanced in representation and include members from at least one of the traditionally under-represented groups (i.e. youth, women, indigenous groups, people with disabilities);
- Participants should add recent photos in their CV.
- Teams must have proven experience in working on Climate Change Adaptation, Community based adaptation (CBA), and Resilience.
- Recipients of previous Small Grants are not eligible.
For more information, visit https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/new-round-of-catalytic-grant-awards-now-open/