Youth4Climate Solutions

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"The Youth4Climate Solutions initiative aims to provide seed funding for youth-led and youth-inclusive solutions to enhance youth leadership and action to achieve impact on the ground.

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Proposals can be submitted by:

a) Youth-led / focused entities based in and proposing to develop an idea in a country eligible for programmatic support by UNDP - e.g., CSOs, NGOs, CBOs, or the private sector. 

b) Minimum one person in the team should have at least three years of experience in project management. 

c) The focal point should be a young person aged 18-29 years.

d) All young people who meet the following criteria:

• Age: be a minimum of [18] years and a maximum of [29] age at the proposal submission time.

• Nationality: be a national from a country where UNDP provides programmatic support proposing an idea for implementation in a country where UNDP provides programmatic support. If a team submits the proposal, members can be countries other than those receiving programmatic support from UND, but not the team leader.

• Language: the ability to communicate in English

2. Thematic areas:

a) Challenge 1: Urban Sustainability;

b) Challenge 2: Food and Agriculture;

c) Challenge 3: Education;

d) Challenge 4: Energy.

3. Grant request: max. 20.000$.

Priority will be given to youth and youth organizations from marginalized and excluded communities active in climate action or initiatives advancing the needs and aspirations of marginalized/excluded young people in the spirit of “leaving no one behind” (LNOB) and “reaching those furthest behind first.”.

Youth4Climate Solutions recognize the ability and creativity of young people and youth organizations/networks and boost direct support to implement innovative solutions addressing the climate emergency.

The solutions are characterized by clear, quantifiable and monitorable objectives and a commitment to combining different disciplines in an innovative way or finding synergies between existing programs and funds. These solutions may in turn galvanize additional projects at the regional, national and local scales.

Register on the Youth4Climate Platform and fill in your application online by 31st March 2023, 23:59 Central European Time (CET). 

Please note that registering does not constitute an application, to submit an application follow steps 3 and 4:

• download and follow the available templates for the preparation of your logframe and budget; 

• submit your proposal.

For more information please visit 

https://www.undp.org/romecentre/component-3 

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