Deadline: 9 August 2019
Applications are now open for Scottish Government’s 2019 Climate Justice Innovation Fund (CJIF).
The CJIF is open to any Scottish-based organisation, working in partnership with in-country partner(s), to support the delivery of climate justice-related projects which demonstrate innovation in the field.
Objectives
The core objectives of the Climate Justice Innovation Fund are:
- To contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular to Goal 13 around climate action, as well as other climate-related goals.
- To innovate This should be through testing new ways of addressing climate justice at the community level, with the aim of identifying or contributing to ‘breakthrough solutions’.
- To address climate change and/or its impacts in-country, through any element or combination of food, energy or water provision, and to benefit the environment wherever possible.
- To empower poor and vulnerable people in decisions and access to resources, through linking human rights and development in the context of climate change.
- To help address the needs of climate vulnerable people, in particular women, children, people with disabilities, and other disadvantaged groups, alleviating poverty and improving equality through increasing climate change resilience.
- To link communities with local government for the strengthening of civil society and improvement of governance, particularly in relation to environmental issues.
- To support transparency, participation, and access to information.
Fund Information and Duration
Projects can apply for up to £125,000 over 16 months. There is no lower limit regarding the amount projects can apply for, and The Scottish Government particularly welcomes applications:
- from currently under-represented groups such as diaspora representatives
- from small organisations with a turnover of £200k or less
- from Scottish organisations collaborating to deliver a project
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant organisations must constitute a “legal person”, meaning they need to be legally constituted and able to enter into contracts. Examples of legal personalities include SCIOs and registered companies. Unincorporated organisations, even with charitable status, are not eligible to apply. Private sector organisations are welcome to apply, subject to the project being delivered on a strictly not-for-profit basis. Evidence of delivery on not for profit basis may be requested.
- Applicants must be able to evidence a presence in Scotland, including that they occupy premises in Scotland from where the grant will be managed.
- Applicants need to provide audited/examined accounts for their most recently completed financial year. Organisations formed too recently to be able to provide these are ineligible.
- Applications must clearly outline the innovative aspect(s) of the project, whether through the start-up and field-testing of innovations OR through support of innovations on their path to scale, and the innovative aspect(s) of the project must be detailed in the application.
- All grants must relate to projects that specifically support climate justice aims, i.e. helping build resilience to the worst effects of climate change and must relate to food, energy or water in some respect.
- Applicants may only apply for grants that will support projects in one or more of the sub-Saharan African partner countries identified in the Scottish Government’s 2016 International Development Strategy: Malawi, Rwanda or Zambia.
- Applicants must present a project proposal based on partnership with a locally-led organisation based in the country of implementation.
- Applicants may apply for a grant where the Scottish Government will be the sole funder of such project OR where the application is for joint or match funding, where the funding split may be up to a maximum of 50:50 with another funder.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.corra.scot/grants/international-development/