Akina Mama wa Afrika
(AMwA) is calling for proposals for the Voices for
Climate Action Programme to ensure that by 2025, local civil society and
underrepresented groups will have taken on a central role as creators,
facilitators and advocates of innovative and inclusive climate solutions.
The Voices for Climate Action (VCA) programme is a lobby and
advocacy programme being implemented by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Netherlands, SouthSouthNorth (SSN), Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA), Slum Dwellers
International (SDI), Fundación Avina and Hivos under the Dutch Ministry of
Foreign Affairs’ five-year strategic partnership: “Power of
Voices”.
The overall approach of the programme is to work
with civil society to build widespread societal support for locally shaped
climate solutions through an inclusive and rights-based approach. This includes
building a broad-based climate alliance at country level, bridging divides
(urban-rural, gender, youth) that amplifies voices in new unusual ways. In
addition, it will influence national and global policies and financial flows
(e.g. climate finance, private sector investments) in support of these locally
shaped solutions.
Climate justice
approach
Climate change is essentially a human rights
issue because of its devastating effect on human life – and rights. It
exacerbates existing inequalities between rich and poor, ethnicities, sexes,
generations and communities. It undermines democracy and threatens the economy
and development at large. Likewise, by far the greatest burden falls on those
already in poverty and on underrepresented groups such as Indigenous peoples,
the rural and urban poor, women and youth, although they are the least
responsible for climate change. Through a climate justice approach, the
programme intends to see an expanded civic space where civil society voices, in
particular those of indigenous and/or marginalized people are heard on climate
action.
Main strategic
interventions
- 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
- This programme is being
implemented in Kenya by consortium members AMwA, Hivos, SDI, SSN and
WWF.
Funding Information
Budget: EUR 50,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Akina Mama wa Afrika seeks
applications from organizations, collectives or coalitions registered and
based in Kenya. These can be grassroots-based organizations or national
based organizations or umbrella bodies. The organization and its members
should have extensive work experience and networks within groups that seek
to advance just climate action and feminist intersectional approaches. It
should seek to creatively lobby and advocate for the participation of
local civil society and underrepresented groups in key decision-making
processes, in policy formulation and in the fight for climate justice.
They invite these groups to submit proposals that leverage on inclusive
and rights-based approaches as well as on intersectional feminist approaches.
In this regard, they encourage proposals that seek to engage the following
minoritized groups:
- People with disabilities
- Youth
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transsexual and Intersex People
- Women facing exploitation,
abuse, and/or violence
- The elderly/senior citizens
and young people
- Indigenous people and ethnic
minorities
- They have a strong preference
for projects that are designed from an intersectional point of view. This
means projects should aim to work with more than one of the above groups
to address overlapping vulnerabilities and/or forms of discrimination.
Ineligible
Organisations that is not eligible:
- Organizations with an annual
turnover above EUR 400,000.
- Funding of commercial services,
investment or other commercial activities.
- Projects led by current
strategic partners of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Trade and
Development Cooperation are not eligible for this call.
Post Date - 27-May-2021