Deadline: 18-Jun-21
Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is calling for proposals for the Voices for Climate Action Programme to ensure that by 2025, local civil society and underrepresented groups will have taken on a central role as creators, facilitators and advocates of innovative and inclusive climate solutions.
The Voices for Climate Action (VCA) programme is a lobby and advocacy programme being implemented by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Netherlands, SouthSouthNorth (SSN), Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA), Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Fundación Avina and Hivos under the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ five-year strategic partnership: “Power of Voices”.
The overall approach of the programme is to work with civil society to build widespread societal support for locally shaped climate solutions through an inclusive and rights-based approach. This includes building a broad-based climate alliance at country level, bridging divides (urban-rural, gender, youth) that amplifies voices in new unusual ways. In addition, it will influence national and global policies and financial flows (e.g. climate finance, private sector investments) in support of these locally shaped solutions.
Climate justice approach
Climate change is essentially a human rights issue because of its devastating effect on human life – and rights. It exacerbates existing inequalities between rich and poor, ethnicities, sexes, generations and communities. It undermines democracy and threatens the economy and development at large. Likewise, by far the greatest burden falls on those already in poverty and on underrepresented groups such as Indigenous peoples, the rural and urban poor, women and youth, although they are the least responsible for climate change. Through a climate justice approach, the programme intends to see an expanded civic space where civil society voices, in particular those of indigenous and/or marginalized people are heard on climate action.
Main strategic interventions
- The programmes main strategic interventions are centred around the following three pillars
- Mutual capacity strengthening for co-creating alternative scaled climate solutions
- Agenda setting and movement in climate action through amplified storytelling
- Joint lobbying and advocacy to make policy and financial flows responsible to locally shaped climate solutions
- This programme is being implemented in Kenya by consortium members AMwA, Hivos, SDI, SSN and WWF.
Funding Information
Budget: EUR 50,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Akina Mama wa Afrika seeks applications from organizations, collectives or coalitions registered and based in Kenya. These can be grassroots-based organizations or national based organizations or umbrella bodies. The organization and its members should have extensive work experience and networks within groups that seek to advance just climate action and feminist intersectional approaches. It should seek to creatively lobby and advocate for the participation of local civil society and underrepresented groups in key decision-making processes, in policy formulation and in the fight for climate justice. They invite these groups to submit proposals that leverage on inclusive and rights-based approaches as well as on intersectional feminist approaches. In this regard, they encourage proposals that seek to engage the following minoritized groups:
- People with disabilities
- Youth
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersex People
- Women facing exploitation, abuse, and/or violence
- The elderly/senior citizens and young people
- Indigenous people and ethnic minorities
- They have a strong preference for projects that are designed from an intersectional point of view. This means projects should aim to work with more than one of the above groups to address overlapping vulnerabilities and/or forms of discrimination.
Ineligible
Organisations that is not eligible:
- Organizations with an annual turnover above EUR 400,000.
- Funding of commercial services, investment or other commercial activities.
- Projects led by current strategic partners of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation are not eligible for this call.
For more information, visit https://www.akinamamawaafrika.org/voices-for-climate-action-programme-kenya-call-for-proposals-2021/