Deadline: 9-Mar-22
The Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) Kenya programme is seeking suitable knowledge management, media and communications partners to work with SouthSouthNorth (SSN) to support the knowledge management, brokering, communications and capacity development of the VCA Kenya programme and its local partners, in collaboration with other partners working within VCA Kenya.
The VCA programme is being implemented in Kenya by consortium members AMwA, Hivos, SDI, SSN and WWF under prevailing environmental, economic, social, and political contexts.
Pillars
The programmes main strategic interventions are centred around the following three pillars:
- Mutual capacity strengthening for co-creating alternative scaled climate solutions
- Agenda setting and movement in climate action through amplified storytelling
- Joint lobbying and advocacy to make policy and financial flows responsible to locally shaped climate solutions
Types of Grants
- Activities designed to support mutual capacity strengthening of local actors for cocreating alternative scaled climate solutions:
- capacity strengthening intervention to enhance CSO partners’ Knowledge and expertise on climate justice, climate negotiations, climate finance, and Nature-based Solutions (NbS);
- develop and deliver training on social innovation and cocreation of local climate solutions, and advocacy and movement building;
- supporting stakeholders to participate in national, regional, and global climate change meetings.
- Activities designed to support local actors to set agenda and connect movements through amplified storytelling:
- Produce stories with local actors on local climate solutions,
- develop and deliver training on storytelling
- Provide communication support to local actors, and raising the profile of their local climate solutions through media engagement and digital communication.
- Activities designed to support evidence-based joint advocacy and lobbying by local actors to make policy and financial flows responsive to locally shaped climate solutions. This includes:
- targeted policy interventions at the county and national level to influence climate change policies and processes, supported by research for just climate transition in Kenya;
- provide support to local partners with relevant research for evidence-based advocacy and producing content for advocacy and engagement (such as policy briefs, positions papers, opinion pieces etc.)
Funding Information
- Activities designed to support mutual capacity strengthening of local actors for cocreating alternative scaled climate solutions: EU 40,000 for 1 year, with the potential to extend to 2-3 years based on performance and opportunity.
- Activities designed to support local actors to set agenda and connect movements through amplified storytelling: EU 30,000 for 1 year, with the potential to extend to 2-3 years based on performance and opportunity.
- Activities designed to support evidence-based joint advocacy and lobbying by local actors to make policy and financial flows responsive to locally shaped climate solutions: EU 30,000 for 1 year
Eligibility Criteria
- Locally registered non-profit Kenyan organisations who are not already contracted under the VCA programme.
- Coalitions, networks, consortiums, and alliances with at least one locally registered non-profit Kenya organisation with sufficient operational and financial management experience
- An applicant with a clean human rights record
- An applicant with a track record on developing and advocating for locally shaped climate solutions
- An applicant with the ability to link to and mobilise more extensive networks or capacity to access, mobilise, convene, and influence power holders
- It will be considered favourable if the coalitions/organisations:
- Have prior experience carrying out activities in priority areas related to climate change adaptation and mitigation, including (desertification, water, food security and sovereignty, deforestation, coastline, energy, policy, etc…)
- Includes actors not traditionally working in climate justice issues but that have skills and tools which are relevant and/or scalable
- Reflects a diverse perspective and intersectionality approach, which will enhance participation and strengthen the wider climate justice movement and advocacy
- Led by or who work with women groups, youth, persons with disabilities, or other marginalised groups.
- Willing to collaborate with other actors to influence more substantial impacts, build capacity over time, and jointly develop and implement a capacity strengthening plan.
For more information, visit https://southsouthnorth.org/vca-kenya-call-for-proposals-communications-media-and-knowledge-partners/