Deadline: 18 July 2022
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched the Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environments (RISE) Grant Program to support evidence-based strategies to prevent, mitigate and respond to the risk of gender-based violence (GBV) in the context of natural resource access and control, including in relation to uses of, benefits or harms derived from and decision-making power and influence over these resources, tailored to the local context in which the action is undertaken.
RISE seeks partnerships between environmental organisations, gender equality and GBV-expert organisations, Indigenous Peoples’ organisations, local and grassroots communities and relevant experts, who, by working together, can bridge knowledge gaps, contribute to an evidence base of effective practices and implement effective interventions.
RISE also seeks insights and learnings from other development and humanitarian sectors that have proven or promising practices to address gender-based violence; for example, applicants can draw from learnings and best practices from sectors such as health and education to apply in environmental sectors. Finally, RISE aims to support a broad range of approaches that are sustainable, scalable and applicable for IUCN and/or USAID – and replicable among a range of donors and implementers.
Following lessons and promising practices from the previous two RISE phases, RISE will continue to support evidence-based strategies to address gender-based violence in environment and climate-related programming, in ways that improve rights-based, gender-responsive, socially inclusive and equitable conservation, climate action and sustainable development.
For this open call in 2022, RISE priorities include: generating learning on promising practices for addressing gender-based violence in climate-vulnerable contexts and in relation to protecting the rights and safety of environmental defenders, as well as adaptive management in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
RISE seeks to build evidence and cross-sector collaborations in three primary ways, investing in:
- new interventions that address GBV in environment sectors,
- integrated approaches that embed GBV components in existing environmental programming or related activities and
- existing GBV-environment programming that aims to continue, scale up or replicate an intervention
Funding Information
- RISE seeks to fund up to six projects in the range of USD 100,000 – USD 400,000 each, with implementation timelines of 18-24 months.
- Through the GBV-ENV Center, RISE grantees will benefit from technical support, a community of practice and spotlight attention in global, regional and national convenings.
What RISE will fund?
RISE seeks to fund interventions that:
- Foster meaningful partnership between environmental, gender equality and GBV-expert, Indigenous Peoples and/or community-based organisations, networks or decision-makers;
- Implement contextually appropriate, locally- or community-led or driven approaches, in line with rights-based principles and approaches;
- Integrate promising practices for survivor-centred and trauma-informed approaches;
- Draw on, adapt and/or contribute to proven or promising strategies (i.e., evidence-based strategies) to address gender-based violence in other sectors or geographies for application in environment-focused sectors and targeted RISE geographies;
- Build on existing or new gender-responsive environmental programming and practice to strengthen strategies, tools and capacities to address gender-based violence, contributing to the overall global knowledge and capacity base to address gender-based violence and environment linkages;
- Promote institutional learning on promising practices and lessons learned in addressing gender-based violence across environment-focused contexts, toward overall improved implementation and scale-up of rights-based gender-responsive environment approaches and outcomes;
- Present innovative collaborative arrangements – e.g., via partnerships, institutional enabling conditions, policy reform, social protection measures – that contribute to existing evidence on addressing gender-based violence in conservation, climate change and/or sustainable development work and workplaces;
- Foster or leverage favourable enabling conditions to implement interventions to reduce gender-based violence and support survivors, for example through legislative action, infrastructure or institutionalisation, or mobilising political will;
- Contribute to filling knowledge gaps, for example through deepening local and contextual knowledge of gender-based violence and environment linkages; showcasing context-specific promising practices for preventing, mitigating and responding to this issue; and/ or demonstrating how RISE grantees’ interventions and learning will influence national, regional or global policy and programming agendas.
Targeted Geographies
Projects must be implemented in one or more of the following targeted geographies:
- Central America and the Caribbean
- Eastern and Southern Africa
- South and Southeast Asia
Eligibility Criteria
RISE is open to legally registered local, national, regional, or international organisations, including but not limited to:
- Non-governmental organisations (NGOs);
- Grassroots, local and community-based organisations (CBOs), including women, youth-led and LGBTQI organisations;
- Civil society organisations (CSOs);
- Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations (IPOs);
- Women-owned/women-led enterprises;
- Faith-based organisations (FBOs);
- International non-governmental organisations (INGOs);
- Intergovernmental organisations (IGOs);
- Universities and other academic institutions;
- Research institutes and think tanks;
- Private sector companies (international, regional, national, local) (for-profit organisations must clearly demonstrate that the proposed project pursues strictly non-profit objectives and does not generate any income);
- Consortiums, partnerships and other already existing forms of collaboration;
- Organisations that are members of IUCN and/or others with track record improving environment outcomes; and
- Organisations that have previously applied for and/or received RISE funding (these applicants must specifically articulate how another grant builds on the learnings and results of the first).
- Applicants must summit their proposal in English or Spanish.
For more information, visit https://www.iucn.org/news/gender/202206/iucn-launches-new-call-proposals-resilient-inclusive-and-sustainable-environments-rise-grants