Deadline: 12-Dec-22
The Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) is excited to announce a funding opportunity for action and research entities to collaborate in order to unearth knowledge, ideas and opportunities for climate change adaptation in the Global South.
The ARA focuses on ensuring that increased ambition can be delivered through evidence-based action, recognising that practical action is required to minimise and avert loss and damage. They need a step-change on adaptation, which requires collaboration between government, business, and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to prepare for climate risks, mobilise further action, and increase adaptation financing.
This funding opportunity is open to:
- ‘Action’ entities, such as NGOs, cooperatives, governments or organisations facing burning climate change issues affecting local communities, and
- Research institutions that can help respond to the most pressing needs of those affected by climate change in their local communities.
Purpose
- In this way, the micro-grants will serve the following two purposes;
- They connect diverse groups of action and research stakeholders to co-create an understanding of the issue at hand.
- They act as an enabler and catalyst to produce relevant knowledge, as well as identify needs and opportunities for taking the next step in responding to a burning issue.
Funding Information
- Successful applicants will be awarded up to 15,000.00 GBP to discover the needs and priorities from a grassroots perspective, that brings together action and research stakeholders. The actual period for micro-grant activities to be carried out will be 8 months (occurring in 2023).
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must comply with the basic eligibility criteria to be considered by the review panel:
- The proposal lead organisation must be based in the country/region in the Global South facing the burning issue under investigation.
- Proposals should involve a minimum of at least one research, and one action/grassroots entity.
- The research institution must be based in the country of the action/grassroots entity.
- Exploration of burning issues in the proposal and grant process should be driven by the needs of action stakeholders and supported by researchers. Applications which do not involve both action stakeholders and research stakeholders will not be accepted.
- Proposals should incorporate one or all the Adaptation Research for Impact Principles, and explicitly state how they will be implemented.
- Micro-grantees must be able to participate in the virtual Kick-off Meet and Greet (May 2023), Reflective Workshops (September 2023 and January 2024), and requested Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Engagements. Grantees are encouraged to attend the contracting and financial reporting workshops, to ensure they comply with budget and contracting protocol throughout the entirety of their grant.
- Applications must comply with the micro-grant expenses protocol document. Projects will be expected to comply with this protocol throughout the entirety of the grant period.
- The lead organisation bank account must be able to receive funds from foreign accounts. The entity receiving the funds will be responsible for contracting and expenses.
- Proposals can be submitted in the following languages: English, French or Spanish.
- Gender and social equity considerations must be explained in the proposal, and applicants must show how demographics (e.g., gender, age, ethnicity, etc) in the end-user community will be represented in the micro-grant team.
- Rates for project staff must be competitive per country and/or region.
Selection Criteria
- Eligible applications will be evaluated by independent reviewers based on the following criteria:
- The scope and ambition of the project must match resources and time available.
- Clear connection between action and research, and the value of both for investigating needs and opportunities in relation to the burning issue will be viewed favourably.
- Strong preference will be given to proposals led by non-research organisations in the Global South.
- Strong preference will be given to proposals with South-South collaborations (meaning all participating organisations are within the Global South).
- Burning issues must respond to specific needs and/or expressed demands of action stakeholders, for example affected grassroots communities or government stakeholders.
- Existing collaborations between action and research stakeholders will be viewed favourably, however applications which seek to develop new collaborations will be considered.
- Applications which indicate a vision for evolving and/or continuing micro-grant activities after the grant’s end (whether it be sharing learning, growing an action to research relationship, applying for further funding) will be viewed favourably.
- Applicants should have gender diversity within the micro-grant team, including in leadership roles.
For more information, visit ARA.