Here are some open funding opportunities for the organizations, institutions, researchers, groups and individuals working for climate change.
U.S. Embassy Nairobi Small Grants Program
Deadline: 30 June 2022
The U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Public Diplomacy Section (PDS Nairobi) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program.
Purpose
Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) Nairobi invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural, academic, and professional ties between the United States and Kenya through programming and exchanges that highlight shared values and promote bilateral cooperation. All programs must include an American cultural element, and/or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives.
Priorities
- Promote Rule of Law, Democracy, and Good Governance
- Promote rule-of-law, democracy, and good governance by focusing on issues such as rule-of-law, democratic governance, civic participation, media literacy, media independence, prevention of corruption, prevention of gender-based violence, and prevention of violent extremism.
- Advance Environmental Justice
- Address the significant and adverse health, environmental, economic, climate, and other cumulative impacts of pollution and environmental degradation, especially on communities that are marginalized or underserved.
- Advance Inclusive Societies
- Ensure all members of a society, especially women and girls as well as members of marginalized and underserved communities, can access and participate equally in educational opportunities, civil society, and economic activity.
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Voices for Just Climate Action Kenya Programme
Deadline: 9 March 2022
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.)
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EJN Call for Proposals: Reporting on Climate Change in Kenya
Deadline: 8 March 2022
The Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering reporting grants to journalists in Kenya to support the production of in-depth stories on the impacts of climate change.
In East Africa, news about the impacts of climate change is scarce, and media houses do not often have the capacity to invest financial, human, and even technological resources to generate the high-quality content that would fill the information vacuum.
To help journalists in the region to unearth these issues, highlight solutions and point out the key obstacles to climate action, Internews’ Earth Journalism Network is offering grants to ~10 journalists in Kenya to report on matters related to climate change.
Story themes
- They welcome story ideas that focus on the short- and long-term consequences of environmental destruction and other drivers of climate change.
- They’re looking for incisive, in-depth, solutions-focused stories on climate change that put human experiences at the center of the storytelling. While the stories should be backed by scientific evidence and incorporate data in a simple and compelling way, they should focus on proven adaptations and responses to these challenges.
- Ideas should consider questions such as:
- How is climate change accelerating phenomena like droughts, scarcity of water, and human-to-wildlife conflicts, etc?
- What is the connection between climate change to health (zoonotic diseases) and other aspects of human/planet and animal life?
- In what ingenious ways are communities working to conserve their immediate environments and ecosystems to mitigate the effects of climate changes?
- How do law enforcement agencies deal with human activities that cause climate change?
- What role do policies play in promoting climate action? What are some examples of successful regulation that could serve as models for similar places?
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Kenya-UK PACT Call for Proposals for innovative projects in Nature-based Solutions
Deadline: 18 March 2022
Kenya-UK PACT is inviting eligible organisations to submit proposals for innovative, capacity-building projects that help strengthen Kenya’s nature-based solutions sector.
Projects selected through this Kenya-UK PACT funding round will support the Government of Kenya’s ambitious goals for the nature-based solutions sector, set out in their Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). Kenya has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 32% by 2030.
Nature-based Solutions will be at the heart of delivering Kenya’s ambitious climate mitigation goals. The forestry sector alone represents nearly half of all abatement measures set out in Kenya’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which commits to reducing emissions by 32% by 2030.
What will Kenya-UK PACT be funding?
They welcome proposals for projects that will start on 1 July 2022 and end no later than 31 March 2025. Projects should focus on addressing key policy and institutional gaps in the conservation, management and restoration of forests, and the continued development and implementation of a national REDD+ system. All projects must embed Gender Equality and Social Inclusion considerations throughout. They will be looking for evidence that projects can help accelerate carbon emissions reductions and contribute to economic recovery objectives in Kenya.
Priorities
Within the Nature-based Solutions sector, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry has outlined its priorities in the following policy documents. The Ministry has developed a new Forest Policy, a Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Strategy and Investment Plan, and a National Forest Management System framework; they set out key priorities for financing and implementing its ambitious goals.
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Polish Aid Small Grants Programme 2022 in Kenya
Deadline: 28 February 2022
The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi invites all interested Kenyan organizations to take part in a call for applications for projects implemented with the Polish Aid Small Grants scheme in 2022.
What are the thematic areas?
The project proposal submitted to the Embassy of Poland in Nairobi needs to fit into the following Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations:
- Good health and well-being
- Quality education
- Decent work and economic growth
- Reduced inequalities
- Climate action
- Peace, justice and strong institutions
Funding Information
The maximum amount of financing you can request is 27 000 euros and the time-span of the project shall not extend beyond December 2022. Usually the results of the call for applications are published around May or June, thus the project duration cannot extend six months (June – December 2022).
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WWF: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Grant
Deadline: 15 April 2022
The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Russell E Train Education for Nature Program (EFN) is inviting applications for the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Grant. The aim is to provide competitive financial support to teams and institutions working in Kenya, Tanzania, and Madagascar focusing on enhancing capacities to address environmental and social impact assessment capacity building needs with an emphasis on local communities and local practitioners.
The proposals should focus on collaborative capacity building related to:
- environmental and social impacts and risks of development projects on ecosystems and their services and
- enhancing inclusive conservation and sustainable development.
Focus Areas
Proposals should seek to engage diverse groups and sectors with an emphasis on the following:
- Developing skills, good practice, and standards. These should include hands-on activities and case studies that directly address the dual institutional challenges and gaps to understanding and mitigating the potential social and environmental impacts and risks associated with development programs and projects and opportunities for enhancing inclusive conservation objectives to achieve sustainable development.
- Engaging diverse stakeholders, including gender mainstreaming and involvement of local and indigenous people and communities.
- Fostering a professional network among individuals and organizations with emphasis on collaboration and information exchange. Priority will be given to proposals that seek to strengthen collaboration with local associations (e.g., conservation professionals, impact assessment professionals, environmental journalists, urban and regional planners, or environmental lawyers), and regional bodies.
- Strengthening institutional capacities to address governance challenges related to conservation, development, and infrastructure projects and to improve the expertise and experience of individuals and communities to achieve impact assessment and conservation outcomes collaboratively, including attention to cumulative effects, strategic level cooperation, and the use of nature-based solutions to environmental impacts and risks.
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Media Workshop on Wildlife and Conservation Reporting in East Africa 2022
Deadline: 28 February 2022
The Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is currently seeking applications for the Media Workshop on Wildlife and Conservation Reporting in East Africa 2022.
Program Details
- Program will be held from March 28 to April 4 in Fort Portal, Uganda.
- They will host this five-day workshop at a venue (TBC) in Fort Portal, mid-western Uganda, which is around 300 kilometers from the capital, Kampala.
- During the workshop, participants will gain a deeper understanding of conservation efforts in the region and learn how researchers, Indigenous groups, local communities and policymakers are protecting their ecosystems and addressing threats such as hunting, poaching and trafficking.
- Participants will engage in a combination of classroom-style study and field visits to select national parks, forest reserves and other areas to learn more about habitat restoration efforts and conservation solutions. They’ll also meet with experts to discuss the impacts of deforestation, land degradation and the climate crisis.
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GreenBiz Programme in Kenya
Deadline: 28 February 2022
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (Danish MoFA) and Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) have partnered to implement the GreenBiz Programme.
The expected outcome will be increased commercialisation and scale up of climate related companies, which create decent jobs, increased access to low carbon energy sources, increased community and household resilience to climate change as well as other environmental and social benefits.
The Kenya Climate Innovation Center, which is the implementing partner, is placing a call for applications to their GreenBiz Incubator and Accelerator programme to support climate smart businesses under the programme. The GreenBiz Programme will address key challenges that hinder climate technologies and related innovative business models from tapping into the immense potential in the cleantech sector.
Through strategic partnerships, KCIC will work to influence the creation of enabling legal and regulatory frameworks for clean tech businesses as well as the mainstreaming of the green growth and climate change agenda into the Kenyan economy.
Sectors
KCIC is engaged in five sectors: water; renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE & EE);
- agriculture; commercial forestry and waste management. By focusing on these sectors, KCIC (and its clients) will directly and indirectly contribute to the achievement of SDG 1 (no poverty); SDG 2 (no hunger); SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy),
- and SDG 13 (climate action). Others are SDG 15 (life on land); SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) and SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production).
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