Deadline: 13-Nov-22
As part of the Pakistan UK Season 2022, The British Council is delighted to announce the launch of the Gender Ecologies Grant Programme.
This is a cross-artform opportunity and seeks to encourage relationships between arts, research, science, and other disciplines in collaborations between Pakistan and the UK. Proposals can be a new part of an existing project or seed a new idea supporting environmental awareness and response.
This programme aims to provide a platform for international exchange, sharing indigenous and alternative experience and responses to climate change through the arts, exploring ways in which to close the gap between the disproportional effects of climate change to women in the Global South.
Gender Ecologies aims to foster a mutual exchange of knowledge and skills, promoting the voice of women, their safety and dignity. It supports cross-disciplinary and collaborative exchange, and aims to explore ways of communicating climate change, showing how arts can be a catalyst for positive change, action, and impact in environmental issues.
Focus Areas
Here are some insights from the Pakistan sector, including artists, communities, researchers, NGOs, universities, cultural institutes, and these are some of the areas that felt important:
- Supporting youth programming around climate change
- Women and their relationship with food and water
- Disproportionate effects of climate change e.g. flooding for women
- Regenerative agriculture, including health and wellbeing
- Up skilling women in climate preparedness, migration, adaptation
- The role of digital programming in climate change
- Indigenous wisdom and its role in climate change
- Communication and language around climate change
There should be a clear focus on how the grant will create impact and bring legacy opportunities for the partners, artists and communities involved.
Funding Information
- Organisations as part of the application will be invited to include a separate budget document outlining their proposed costs for the project
- The combined total budget submitted by both applicant organisations should be £30,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for the funding opportunity the applicant must:
- Lead applicant must be an emerging or established organisation based in Pakistan
- There must be a UK collaboration partner (organisation/ company and not an individual)
- Applicants must provide evidence of true collaboration, knowledge exchange and mutual benefit for all partners in their application.
- Organisations can apply as a consortium of partners but there must be one lead applicant who receives the funds in Pakistan and/ or the UK
- Both Pakistan and UK organisations must be registered in the country they are based out off
- Must be able to deliver the project within January 2023 to October 2023
- Proposals must focus on women in the design, delivery, and impact of the proposed project
- If the proposal looks at working with marginalised communities and/ or protected characteristics, it must be evident how a sensitive and Knowledgeable approach is taken in working with these communities. The applicant must show experience of community-based work and how they will address context e.g., language, ethics of collaboration etc.
For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.pk/gender-ecologies-grant