Exciting climate opportunities for young people
Here is a round up of exciting climate-related opportunities for young people:
Job opening: community associate for the Youth Climate Justice Fund (YCJF)
What: The Youth Climate Justice Fund (YCJF) is seeking a talented and passionate Community Associate to join their team. As the Community Associate, the candidate will play a key role in supporting grantee partners with youth-to-youth capacity development and support to achieve their goals.
Organization: The Youth Climate Justice Fund (YCJF)
Location: Remotely, preferably in the Global South
Who is this for: The candidate must have proven experience in community work and capacity building in youth spaces, as well as experience in communication and facilitating both virtual and in-person meetings/events. Read more in the link below.
Deadline: 5 November, 2024.
Call for projects: 1 million youth actions challenge (1,500 CAD to 5,000 CAD available for selected youth-led initiatives for a sustainable future)
What: The primary objective of this call for projects is to support the implementation of youth-led initiatives focused on clean water and sanitation, responsible consumption and production, climate action, and biodiversity. Additionally, the initiative aims to enhance the capacities of young leaders as agents of change within the water and climate sectors. Selected projects will receive seed funding ranging from 1,500 CAD to 5,000 CAD. Project leaders will also benefit from technical support in project management and partnership building.
Organization: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and International Secretariat for Water.
Deadline: 5 November, 2024.
Call for application: African Climate Innovation Challenge 2024
What: The African Climate Innovation Challenge is an annual initiative focused on identifying and supporting innovative climate solutions from African entrepreneurs and leaders. ACIC provides a platform for innovators to gain exposure, access resources, and participate in a community of like-minded individuals all working toward a common goal: tackling climate change in Africa.
Organizations: Africa3 E’s 4 Africa (3E4A), Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) and Start.Up Lounge Africa (SLA)
Who is this for: start-ups focusing on climate mitigation or adaptation with at least two team members. All team members must be of African descendent and based in Africa.
Deadline: 8 November, 2024.
Call for application: ICCCAD Youth Fellowship Programme 2025
What: ICCCAD has designed a one-year-long fellowship programme where youth can be involved in the sector of climate change development and identify challenges through solution development by providing viable solutions for this vast sector. This programme will enhance the resilience and adaptive capacity of the youth in local communities and raise these issues at national & international levels.
Organization: ICCCAD
Who is this for: Bangladeshi undergraduate students or recent graduates between 18 and 30 years old.
Application deadline: 10 November, 2024
Call for proposal: ICCCAD Youth Innovation Fund 2025 (Catalyst Youth Project)
What: Youth Innovation Fund is a small grant support to fund and sponsor a number of youth-led and youth-serving organizations as well as individual youth who want to contribute to the field of climate change and development. Applications are welcome from youth-led or youth-focused organizations, or motivated -non-profit organizations or groups, including social enterprises who are working in the field of climate change and environmental sustainability to improve the lives of climate-vulnerable communities of Bangladesh. The fund will offer an annual grant of 5,00,000 BDT for each grantee for about in total 05 grantees.
Organization: ICCCAD
Who is this for: The fund is open to youth-led and youth-focused organizations (where the leadership of the organization or group are young people aged under 30) working in the field of climate change, adaptation, and mitigation.
Deadline: 10 November, 2024.
Call for Applications: Understanding and co-creating knowledge brokering Training for Early Career Researchers
What: This CDKN Research Connect Training is dedicated exclusively to early-career researchers to increase their understanding of the concept and principles of knowledge brokering and strengthen skills and awareness about different knowledge and innovation brokering tools, approaches and strategies that early career researchers will be able to apply in their current and future work. The training is fully-funded and will take place over five days in Ensign College near Akosombo from 25th November 2024 to 30th November, 2024.
Organization: CDKN
Who is this for: Early career researchers in Ghana.
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