Deadline: 24-Feb-23
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Albania would like to bring to the attention of Albanian and U.S. organizations a public announcement of the availability of Disability Program Funding to support programming in the area of Disability-Inclusiveness Climate Action.
This competitive funding opportunity aims to facilitate persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in taking action to respond to climate change and bolster their resilience to the effects of climate change.
USAID/Albania is keenly interested in concepts that focus on inclusive disaster risk reduction, but is also happy to consider other meritorious concepts.
Aims
- Climate change-related information, including early warning systems for extreme weather events, may be inaccessible to persons with disabilities.
- Persons with disabilities may be intentionally or effectively excluded from meaningful access to and inclusion in governance, finance, and decision-making processes related to climate action.
- Disability-based discrimination in education, employment, urban planning, agriculture, food security, health, disaster preparedness, and other contexts may leave persons with disabilities at risk of exclusion from measures related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
- Persons with disabilities may be unable to evacuate in the face of extreme weather events, or to fully utilize migration as a climate change adaptive response due to inaccessibility of the built environment, transportation, emergency shelter facilities and poor access to financial and other resources, leading to increased risks of injuries and/or secondary disabilities or mortality.
- Perceptions of inherent vulnerability of persons with disabilities may result in persons with disabilities being forced into segregated settings, or otherwise limit their exercise of agency to generate climate change solutions of benefit to persons with disabilities and wider society.
Funding Information
- Subject to availability of funds, the total estimated level of funding available for awards under this worldwide request is up to approximately $7,000,000 over a 24-36 month period.
- Applicant may submit Concept Paper in on the following two categories:
- Programs ranging from $300,000 – $500,000; and
- Programs ranging from $500,001 – $1,000,000
Illustrative Activities
- Bolstering the resilience of persons with disabilities
- Supporting the contribution of persons with disabilities to climate change response, including climate change mitigation, as positive agents of change and sources of solutions
Eligibility Criteria
- Submissions of project concepts should be from qualified U.S. or non-U.S. entities, such as private, non-profit organizations (or for-profit companies willing to forego profits), faith- and local community-based organizations, private voluntary organizations, universities, research organizations, and professional associations.
- Local DPOs are strongly encouraged to submit project concepts. Preference will be given to qualified DPOs and/or any of the above organization types that directly collaborate with and/or award sub-grants to DPOs while meeting the requirements for funding.
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