2022 Resilience Fellowship on Environmental Crime

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The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) is pleased to announce the third edition of the Resilience Fellowship, which for 2022 will have environmental crime as its theme.

The Fellowship builds a platform for cross-sectoral, global and interdisciplinary collaboration between civil society actors, human rights activists, journalists, artists, scholars, policymakers, grassroots community leaders and others working to counter the effects of organized crime.

Environmental Crime Issues:

• Links between environmental crime and other serious crimes (financial crimes, cybercrime, drug trafficking).

• Illegal exploitation of resources (deforestation, illegal fishing, illegal logging, illegal mining, militarization).

• Environmental migration and its links to smuggling of people.

• Illegal waste dumping (soil and water contamination, dumping of e-waste and toxic chemicals).

• Environmental crime and corruption.

• Community responses to environmental crime.

Applicants should:

1. have a background in any of the following fields: journalism and media; activism; advocacy and community mobilization; the creative arts (artists, writers, filmmakers and others); community leaders (religious, cultural, youth leaders); academia (researchers and scholars), and the public sector (policymakers);

2. be fluent in at least one of these three languages: Spanish, English or French;

3. ideally work closely within communities severely affected by environmental crime, or have strong ties within them, and should have ongoing or established projects or engagement. 

Individuals from other disciplines will be considered if their work is relevant to the Fellowship’s objectives and the annual theme.

The Fellowship welcomes applications from people of any gender, ethnicity, age, religion or any other defining factor, who work in communities affected by organized crime. 

Participants who have direct experience in their communities’ issues, related to the annual theme, are particularly encouraged to apply.

The overall make-up of the Fellows will be diverse and will reflect an equitable geographic and gender balance.

Each fellow will receive US$15 000 (divided in three payments of US$5 000) to be executed with no other limitation than the principles of professionalism, integrity and transparency; the proposal presented in the application form; the terms and conditions of the Fellowship agreement, and the implementation of collaborative actions with other fellows.

Deadline: 15 November 2021.

For more information, please visit https://resiliencefund.globalinitiative.net/resilience-fellowship-2022/

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