Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environments (RISE) grants challenge 2023
Gender-based violence and environment linkages are complex and multi-layered; however, these threats to human rights and healthy ecosystems are not insurmountable. Urgent action to end GBV, promote gender equality and social inclusion and protect the environment is crucial – and requires cooperation and shared commitment across sectors.
The Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environments (RISE) grants challenge is a first-of-its-kind grant fund that supports activities designed to address gender-based violence and environmental linkages in environmental and climate-related programmes and generate evidence on promising interventions.
Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and managed by IUCN under their Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT) partnership, the RISE grants challenge is a direct response to a landmark study on gender-based violence and environment linkages by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which USAID’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub (GenDev) commissioned through the AGENT partnership. With input from IUCN and diverse partners and peers, USAID designed this first-of-its-kind grants mechanism to fill knowledge, cooperation and investment gaps at the gender-based violence and environment nexus. In complement, IUCN launched the Gender-based Violence and Environment Linkages Center (GBV-ENV Center), which brings together resources and tools, mobilises learning, provides tailored technical support and forges collective action to build knowledge, capacities and improved policies. Since 2022, the RISE grants challenge has been managed and hosted by the IUCN, under the GBV-ENV Center.
The RISE grants challenge 2023 call for proposals is the fourth RISE grants challenge open call. A new cohort of RISE grantees will join the three previous cohorts, growing a community of practice and contributing to critical knowledge and strategies toward meeting interlinked global goals of eradicating gender-based violence and securing a healthy and peaceful planet.
Objective
The overarching purpose of the RISE grants challenge is to fund projects that address gender-based violence that is occurring within and linked to environment and climate-related sectors.
Scope
In 2023, the RISE grants challenge seeks to fund applications that adapt evidence-based strategies to prevent, mitigate and respond to the risk of gender-based violence related to climate and conservation sectors, with a focus on climate change mitigation, nature-based solutions and natural climate solutions.
The RISE grants challenge encourages applications that also deliver improved rights-based, gender-responsive, socially inclusive conservation, climate action and sustainable development. In 2023, we are particularly interested in intersectional approaches that include or emphasise vulnerable groups such as Indigenous women, environmental defenders, youth, and women and girls who are underrepresented and marginalised in their communities, among others.
Last Date : 30th June 2023
Link :
https://www.iucn.org/sites/default/files/2023-05/rise-grants-challenge-2023-call-for-proposals-english.pdfhttps://www.iucn.org/sites/default/files/2023-05/rise-grants-challenge-2023-call-for-proposals-english.pdf
