Deadline: 30-Sep-2024
The Hlanganisa Community Fund for Social and Gender Justice is accepting proposals for the Climate and Energy Justice Programme to get vital perspectives on climate justice and work with grassroots organisations to enhance the community solutions to respond to climate change.
As a result of climate change, many rural communities, women in particular, face devastation that threatens their access to natural resources, energy and food security. Hlanganisa invites community-based organisations and social movements seeking to contribute to renewable energy and food secure communities in the context of climate change to apply for grant support.
Hlanganisa grant making approach for climate change adaptation embraces the International Institute for Environment and Development’s eight locally led adaptation principles that underscore the importance of community leadership and ownership in sustainable development.
Hlanganisa will support initiatives rooted in African realities such as:
- Climate resilient farming practices: Hlanganisa encourages applicants already advocacy efforts harnessing indigenous knowledge systems, seed banks, water harvesting, utilisation of alternative energy.
- Community-based adaptation for food-secure and energy-secure communities: Applicants are encouraged to prioritise women’s active involvement in resilience and fostering sustainable development.
- Education and awareness on resilience and adaptation: Community-based organisations and movements at grassroots level have the potential to be knowledge hubs for climate and energy justice. Hlanganisa will fund local climate action exploring innovative ways of navigating the impact of climate change.
- Women’s leadership and participation in the climate change discourse: Hlanganisa will support initiatives that recognise the importance of women’s inclusion in leadership and decision-making at a local level.
- Women access to land: Women are feeling the impact of rising living costs more than ever, making food security and sovereignty even more vital. There is an urgent need to scale up the advocacy work for women’s land rights. Possible activities can include advocacy initiatives around specific practices, cultural systems, national policies and legislation.
Grant Size and Funding Duration
- Eligible applicants should submit an online application with a workplan and budget of no more than R100 000.00 and the duration is 15 months.
Geographic Focus
- (Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe) Mhare: Enhancing Resilience of Community-Based Organisations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Hlanganisa will not be accepting proposals that do not meet the criteria listed below:
- Registered community-based organisation in Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe that have been addressing climate crisis at grassroots community level and have climate justice programming for more than 3 years.
- Have strong leadership, participation and empowerment by people serving marginalised communities (particularly women and girls with disabilities) that have endured the burden of climate change.
- A clear grassroots-led effort to build or strengthen climate justice at grassroots community level.
- Applicants should have an existing governance structure in place.
- Have a vision for gender transformation.
- Ability to deliver programme activities and provide reports within the timelines required.
- Have a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics.
- Willingness to receive support to strengthen the institutional and programme capacity of the organization or grassroots formal groupings.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Proposals for the following will not be considered for support:
- Direct fiscal support to government departments.
- Municipal, regional, or national government institutions.
- Tertiary Institutions
- Bursaries and business funding
- Early childhood development / education institutions
- Individual entrepreneurs and enterprises
- Home-based care projects
- Loans and seed funding
- Projects or work that is discriminatory in any form
For more information, visit Hlanganisa.