Deadline: 30-Nov-2024
The UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) is accepting proposals for the Urban Planning and Mobility Program.
Aims
- UK PACT aims to fill gaps and achieve the following:
- Climate integrated urban planning, governance and delivery: this will ensure each city’s development trajectory is climate-proof and sustainable;
- Improve understanding, knowledge, capacities and use of climate-integrated data for city-level decisions and investments for urban development with focus on urban mobility;
- Improve environment and capacities to access accelerated climate finance from different sources to adopt low carbon and environment-friendly solutions, at scale.
Theme
- Theme 1- Integrating climate into city level urban plans: develop a climate-integrated urban planning and governance strategy across sectors, to be prioritised by the city administration, which maximises climate mitigation goals along with adaptation co-benefits, while also supporting capacity-building of key city departments for enabling institutionalisation.
- Theme 2- Climate data-driven approaches to urban planning and mobility: develop a climate-integrated data-driven urban planning and mobility framework across key public (municipal) services for city-level decisions, leveraging existing data-related infrastructure such as the integrated command and control centres.
- Theme 3- Access to accelerated climate finance: technical assistance for strengthening the city’s financial planning and budgeting process to maximise climate mitigation benefits and adaptation co-benefits, while designing innovative.
Funding Information
- Funding is available for up to £500k per project per city.
Duration
- Funding is available for 23 months for a period of February 2025-December 2026.
What are they looking for?
- They are looking to award grant funding to initiatives that integrate climate into urban planning, governance and delivery with special focus on urban mobility in Erode and Thoothikudi.
- These projects should be in line with government strategies and policies, provide benefits to the public, contribute positively to integration of climate consideration into urban planning and mobility, facilitate implementation with the aim of strengthening the city’s sustainable development trajectory.
- The overarching goal is to mitigate GHG emissions and improve the productivity and liveability in these Indian cities, including well-being of citizens and accessibility for women and the most vulnerable, and to apply successes and learning to support other cities.
Eligibility Criteria
- They are looking for a consortium that has the relevant knowledge, skills and experience. This typically can include think-tanks, consultancies, NGOs, research institutes or similar organisations. International organisations that have complementary skills and experience are welcome to apply
- Profit and non-profit organisations can apply but all projects must be on a not-for-profit basis. The consortium lead can either be a non-profit or a for-profit organisation.
- All consortia must have at least one local partner. The local organisation does not need to be the consortium lead. Local partner refers to applicants who work in the project geography, have an understanding of the local context, existing relationships with key counterparts and the ability to obtain information as needed to achieve the proposed outputs and outcomes.
- Public entities, government agencies and/or departments (including sub-national governments) are not eligible to apply either as a lead organisation or partner in a consortium.
For more information, visit UK PACT.