Deadline: 2-Feb-24
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung is offering grants to support local and grassroots youth organisations that promote environmental awareness, reforestation and coalition building with other small island nations and beyond.
The Comoros archipelago is beset by a number of environmental challenges including poor fishing practices, deforestation, rising sea levels, coastal erosion and marine flooding, drought and waste management. These challenges put significant pressure on Comoreans and there has been a recent uptick in migration to other countries in search of more stable living conditions.
Water is life and a reforested Comoros can offer more hope to young people.
Scope
- Develop and roll out a project that highlights the importance of protecting mangrove forests or that deals with issues of drought, youth and climate change, connection with other island nations and/or beyond;
- Prepare and submit a project report. The project should be split into stages and the report should come in progressively with the completion of every stage;
- Opportunities for capacity building should form part of the project.
Funding information
- Selected project shall receive financial support ranging from a minimum of €5,000 to a maximum of €14,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a legally registered and physically established youth non-profit, community organisation or civil society organisation of Comoros;
- Applicants for funding may also form partnerships. However, the lead partner will assume responsibility for the project and will be the recipient of the grant funding;
- Only projects that focus on mangrove restoration, reforestation, resilience to drought and connection to the wider South West Indian Ocean Islands will be funded;
- Applicants must show proof that women play significant/leadership roles in their organisation;
- Commercial projects will not be accepted for this call for proposals;
- Applicant must demonstrate outcomes linked to the programme’s overall objective;
- Applicants must demonstrate a track record in capacity building, environmental education, reforestation, connection with the international community, and/or provide strong evidence of capacity to successfully implement the project;
- Applicants must be compliant with fundamental in-country and international human rights, labour standards, and environmental management laws. Applicants must not be involved in any act of terrorism or support terrorist activities;
- Applicants must allow regular due diligence.
For more information, visit Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.