Deadline: 16-Mar-25
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund is accepting grant applications to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
Expected Results
- The call seeks to identify partner organisations to roll-out UPSHIFT and link skills development initiatives with UNICEF work on adolescent participation and advocacy on issues related to environment and climate change, contributing to policy development and decision making at municipal and national level. More specifically, the proposals should envisage:
- Within the first year, developing a model of how the UPSHIFT curriculum (available here) can be delivered locally, embedded within the secondary education system, and sustained through links with existing and prospective funding sources at local and/or national level.
- The partner should propose a mechanism how, over the three-year period, the scaled down UPSHIFT curriculum can be linked within existing school structures, curricula and practices and identify prospective partners and
- funding options at municipal, regional or national level.
- Implementation of at least 3 scaled down UPSHIFT cycles over the course of 2025 (total of 9 by the end of 2027), on challenges related to climate change, environment and air pollution, with focus on enhancing participation of girls and/or adolescents from rural communities or ethnic minorities.
- Developing a modality/mechanism to foster synergies at local, national and/or regional level between adolescent innovators, members of local youth councils, as well as youth activists and advocates for the environment, clean air and climate action. The partner should propose how to advocate for the implementation of the developed solutions with local authorities/private sector and how to maximise reach to the wider community (both at school level and beyond) Organising a series of 5 consultations with children, adolescents and youth to contribute to the development of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and National Adaptation Plan (NAP).
- Organising one national/regional Conference of Youth in collaboration with YOUNGO.
Eligibility Criteria
- CSO must:
- CSO submission which:
- are sent in any other way then through the UNPP;
- are not sent within the specified deadline;
- do not include all required documents duly completed and signed or do not comply with specifications set in this Call for Expression of Interest;
- are not submitted in English; will be excluded from the selection process
For more information, visit UNICEF.