Deadline: 25-Nov-22
Through this Open Call for Proposals CRAF’d is seeking projects that use analytics and artificial intelligence for more impactful crisis action in anticipation, prevention, and response to the consequences of climate fragility risks.
Around the globe, the consequences of climate-related natural disaster events, including more frequent and extreme heat waves, droughts, floods, or rising sea levels, contribute to the destabilization of already fragile contexts and affect people living in these disproportionately.
Unlocking the full potential of data is key to understanding the ways in which climate-related disaster events spur complex risks in fragile contexts. At the same time, data availability and sophisticated analytical tools help policy makers, practitioners, and researchers to understand, formulate, and assess appropriate and context-specific responses for earlier, faster, more targeted, and dignified crises action that matches people’s needs with solutions.
Thematic Focus
This Open Call focuses on the ways in which climate risks amplify underlying fragility and its adverse effects on people and planet.
- Fragility: While there is no single definition of fragility, most common approaches refer to it as a lack of necessary coping capacities within states or communities to manage, absorb, and mitigate complex and interlinked risks.
- Climate risks: Human-induced climate change has become one of the biggest global challenges. Climate-related natural disaster events, including those listed below, are increasingly widespread, frequent, and intense.
- Climate fragility risks and consequences: The adverse consequences of climate change amplify risks in already fragile contexts. They can intensify contests over scarce resources, reduce economic opportunities, disrupt social cohesion and inflict serious harm on affected people. These climate fragility risks, including those listed below, are a critical frontier for better international support in crisis-affected and fragile settings.
Funding Information
- The overall funding envelope for this Open Call for Proposals is $3million.
- The individual grant size must range between $500,000 and $750,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Participating UN organizations, who have signed the CRAF’d Memorandum of Understanding, and Non-UN organizations are eligible to apply for CRAF’d funding through this Open Call.
- Non-UN organizations can access CRAF’d funding either through a Managing Agent or through the CRAF’d direct access modality. Access modalities will be determined on a case-by-case basis when a non-UN organization passes the first stage of the application process and is starts developing a project proposal.
For more information, visit https://crafd.io/call-for-proposals