Deadline: 24-May-23
The Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the Climate Justice Facility for Africa (CJFA) which is designed to support innovative, rapid-response alternatives and ‘start-up’ initiatives.
The CJFA targets fewer formal organizations making it ideal for initiatives of community groups and informal groups and movements, many of which may not have a legal personality due to various reasons including government restrictions, resource constraints, and the choice of activists. This “Call for proposals” briefing note should be read keenly before filling out the attached proposal template.
An overview of the grants:
- There are two distinct but interrelated sub-grants, all accessible through the online portal.
- Movement building fund is for supporting grassroots and independent movements and organizations that could either be registered or not registered. The funding is meant to support growth of social movements, expand on their spheres of influence and fund strategic advocacy work as led by the social movements in pursuit of social and climate justice.
- Local Action fund supports robust engagement of communities at the frontline of the climate crisis together with governmental and private sector partners in collectively developing scalingup solutions that enable them to overcome shocks, rebound and continue pursuing goals set by their sub-national governments, national development blueprints, regional and international policy instruments.
Funding Information
- A maximum of 17 projects shall be funded across the 8 countries. Each project shall be funded to a maximum of Euro 15,000 and implemented over a 9-month period.
What type of work is funded under this grant?
- Movement building fund
- This fund is for supporting grassroots and independent movements and organizations that either registered or not registered.
- It shall be applied in creating forums and spaces necessary for these movements to be effective.
- The movements to be funded could be based on individual connections and networks rather than a formal structure, and have decentralized fundraising and spending for autonomously determined purposes.
- Applicants must demonstrate the nature of influence actions they will undertake in the granting period as the fund aims to support five influencing activities per year.
- The actions to be supported are often ad hoc, short-term, based on voluntarism, and require relatively small amounts of money.
- Support for both online/ digital based action and offline is accepted.
- Local Action fund
- This fund will drive locally-led, evidencebased advocacy, by supporting innovative community response initiatives that struggle to attract funding in the traditional donor landscape but are potentially transformative.
- It will promote co-creation and crosssectoral learning with the private sector, acknowledging that communities need to be involved in the process of finding their own solutions to challenges based on their own contexts.
- Support the transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient development pathways (supporting both adaptation and mitigation efforts of communities)
- This fund is available to support communities at the frontline of the climate crisis in collectively developing and – together with governmental and private sector partners – scaling-up solutions that enable them to overcome shocks, rebound and continue pursuing goals set in national and regional policy frameworks
- For purposes of being precise, the fund can be applied to support joint pilot initiatives (social enterprises) on viable community solutions in adaptation, mitigation and financial mobilization with CSOs and private sector.
- PACJA will apply its extensive outreach and convening power to catalyze strategic dialogues between communities, CSOs and the private sector. Cultivating relationships over time in order to influence private sector actors to play an active role in promoting communities’ climate resilience.
Eligible Countries
- This grant makes funding available to support ideas from social movements and community institutions and groups advancing climate justice drawn from the following countries:
- Social movements: Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya
- Local Action: Mozambique, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Somalia. Kenya, Ethiopia,
Eligibility Criteria
- Movement building fund
- Both formal and informal groups keen to grow their movements.
- Existing social movements keen to scale up their scope of organizing could be considered on need basis.
- Movements of young people and women groups.
- It is not a fund for formal CSOs.
- Local Action fund
- Informal and formal groups keen to undertake actions on adaptations and resilience.
- Partnerships between community groups and private sector players (leadership in this case shall vest in community groups.)
- Communities in the frontline of climate crisis.
For more information, visit CJFA.