In six African nations—Benin, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda—activists employing legal empowerment techniques to pursue climate justice will be able to apply for flexible two-year grants under this financing round. Applications are invited from official and informal organisations alike.
Funding will be allocated mostly to grassroots, youth-led organisations that are pursuing environmental and/or climate justice through the application of legal empowerment techniques. This would involve: Applying legal empowerment strategies (assisting groups or people in understanding, utilising, or influencing the law).
displaying a strong bond with and dedication to one or more communities inside the operating nation.
displaying involvement and a desire to strengthen the global movement, for as through taking part in projects run by the Global Youth Movement or the Grassroots Justice Network (previously the Legal Empowerment Network).
The organization's yearly budget must be less than USD 200,000 in order to qualify.
All interest expressions that fit the aforementioned requirements will be examined. They will pay particular attention to the following:
work aimed at enhancing youth participation and voice, particularly for young women and girls or young people with impairments.
Work that clearly connects concerns of land and environmental justice to adaptation (dealing with the effects of the climate crisis, such as rebuilding to withstand floods) or mitigation (preventing the climate crisis, such as halting pollution in your neighbourhood).
organisations with their headquarters in rural areas.

African Countries