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Nature-based Climate Solutions Knowledge & Capacity Initiative
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This grant funds capacity-building and knowledge-sharing for civil society and Indigenous organizations in developing countries to design and implement nature-based climate adaptation solutions. It supports training, online courses, and networking platforms targeting 500+ users across 25 countries, with focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, small island developing states, and least developed countries.
Podong Indigenous Peoples Initiative
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This grant funds Indigenous-led biodiversity conservation and natural resource management across Guatemala, Panama, Tanzania, and Nepal, with activities including capacity-building, policy integration, and the design of direct financing mechanisms for Indigenous peoples. It supports implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and prioritizes Indigenous women, girls, and knowledge systems in conservation.
Strengthening Marine Law Enforcement in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
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This grant funds strengthening marine law enforcement and surveillance capacity in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean to protect and sustainably manage marine resources. It targets national marine authorities and coastal communities, with explicit focus on women, Indigenous Peoples, and Afro-descendants across six Latin American countries.
Climate Change Adaptation for Women in Protected Areas of Congo and Chad
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This grant funds climate change adaptation and women's empowerment in protected areas of Congo and Chad through nature-based solutions, agroecology, and ecosystem restoration. It directly supports 2,100 women entrepreneurs and their communities (115,700 people total) with technical, financial, and capacity-building assistance grounded in feminist climate justice.
Zanzibar Women Leadership in Adaptation (ZanzAdapt)
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This grant funds climate adaptation and nature-based solutions in Zanzibar, focusing on mangrove restoration, climate-smart agroforestry, and sustainable land/water management to build community resilience. It prioritizes women's leadership and marginalized groups through capacity building, training, and strengthened climate information systems.
COSME for Women in coastal regions of Kenya
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This grant funds nature-based solutions and livelihood resilience for women in Kenya's blue economy, focusing on mangrove farming, seaweed production, conservation agriculture, and climate adaptation in coastal Kwale and Kilifi counties. It targets over 48,000 direct participants (24,000+ women and girls) with training, equipment, and knowledge support for sustainable coastal management.
Gender-transformative conservation of the Lake Chad Basin
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This CAD 50M grant funds gender-transformative biodiversity conservation and protected area management across Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, with a focus on securing private capital and expanding economic opportunities for vulnerable communities including women and youth. The project supports ecosystem restoration in three national parks within the Great Limpopo Trans Frontier Conservation Area and aims to leverage an additional $40M in private investment.
Enhancing Ecosystem and Coastal Protection in the Caribbean
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This grant funds ecosystem and coastal protection projects across seven Caribbean nations, focusing on coral reef restoration, marine management, and climate resilience for coastal communities. It supports participatory frameworks, scientific mapping, restoration implementation, capacity-building, and regional partnerships to protect biodiversity and sustain ecosystem services against tropical storms and erosion.
Conserva Aves
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This grant funds sustainable conservation of protected areas for bird species and biodiversity in eight Latin American countries, with a focus on benefiting local communities, women, Indigenous Peoples, and Afro-descendants. The programme supports nature-based solutions that safeguard ecosystems, build climate resilience, and generate local economic benefits through ecotourism and community engagement.
Resilience of ecosystems and women's leadership in the Sahel
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This grant funds ecosystem restoration, biodiversity protection, and climate-adaptation capacity-building in the Sahel region, with a focus on empowering women and marginalized groups to implement nature-based solutions and community development plans. Direct beneficiaries include 867,932 community members across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, with priority given to women (69%) and internally displaced persons.
Ecosystem Solutions for Sustainable Adaptation
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This grant funds nature-based climate adaptation solutions in three West African protected areas (Mauritania, Gambia, Senegal), with a focus on strengthening environmental skills, developing adaptation plans, and supporting circular-economy value chains led by women and youth. Direct beneficiaries include approximately 33,000 people across the three countries.
The Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme (SIRP)
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This grant funds the Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme, which builds climate-resilient food systems and strengthens community adaptive capacity across five West African countries. It targets 5+ million people through land rehabilitation, agropastoral productivity improvements, nutrition integration, and market linkages to reduce food insecurity and humanitarian dependency.
Resilience of ecosystems and women's leadership in the Sahel
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This grant funds ecosystem restoration, biodiversity protection, and climate-adaptation capacity-building in the Sahel region, with a focus on empowering women and marginalized communities to implement nature-based solutions and resolve resource-driven conflicts. Direct beneficiaries include 867,932 community members across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, with priority given to women (69%) and internally displaced persons.
Enabling Blue Carbon in Indonesia
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This grant supports the Government of Indonesia in integrating blue carbon ecosystems (mangroves, seagrasses, tidal marshes) into national climate and development strategies, including positioning blue carbon in Indonesia's NDC and MRV systems. Direct beneficiaries are 1,000+ policymakers; indirect beneficiaries are coastal communities, particularly women, youth, and vulnerable populations.
Community resilience through locally led inclusive adaptation
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This grant funds climate adaptation and resilience-building initiatives in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, with emphasis on gender-inclusive local planning, livelihood diversification, and capacity-building for government and civil society partners. Eligible applicants include community groups, NGOs, and government agencies working directly with climate-vulnerable and marginalized populations.
Caribbean Organizations for a Resilient Environment (CORE)
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This grant funds small- to medium-sized environmental and women's rights organizations across eight Caribbean countries to implement nature-based climate adaptation and mitigation solutions in ecosystems like mangroves, coral reefs, and forests. It also supports institutional capacity-building and innovative climate financing mechanisms to strengthen long-term community resilience.
Southeast Asian country partners with developed nation on nature-based solutions for climate adaptation
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This grant funds nature-based solutions to climate adaptation and biodiversity loss in the Philippines through a grant facility supporting 20+ sub-projects, capacity-building for 100+ local beneficiaries, and climate vulnerability assessments. It targets vulnerable communities, women, and Indigenous Peoples across 6 provinces and small island communities, benefiting 6.1 million Filipinos and 50,000 hectares of landscapes and seascapes.
Our collective futures: Indigenous peoples partnering for lands and waters
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This grant funds Indigenous-led climate action and nature-based solutions in the Indo-Pacific region, with peer-to-peer knowledge exchange between First Nations in Canada and Indigenous communities in Thailand and Nepal. It prioritizes Indigenous women and youth leadership, local governance, and self-determined climate and biodiversity priorities.
Flood Impacts, Carbon Pricing and Ecosystem Sustainability
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This grant funds climate adaptation and mitigation work in Indonesia, including flood-risk modelling, peatland/mangrove restoration, carbon-pricing policy development, and climate-resilient social support mechanisms. It targets university staff, researchers, and government officials (30,000 direct beneficiaries) and prioritizes women, youth, and low-income communities.
Building Climate Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives
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This grant funds climate adaptation and nature-based solutions projects led by Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru, with 65% of funding distributed as sub-grants to co-implemented projects. The programme prioritizes gender-responsive approaches, Indigenous self-determination, and knowledge exchange on traditional land stewardship and climate resilience.
Resilient Landscapes and Livelihoods for Women Program
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This CAD 40M grant funds climate-resilient agriculture and livelihood diversification for smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia, with particular focus on women farmers and land tenure security. Activities include green infrastructure development, sustainable land management, institutional capacity-building, and technology adoption to improve productivity, food security, and carbon storage.
Empowering stewardship in the Coral Triangle
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This grant funds women-led conservation and climate adaptation initiatives in the Coral Triangle, providing training, mentorship, and support for natural resource management and sustainable livelihoods. It targets vulnerable women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples to build resilience and protect 65,000 hectares of marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Nature-based Solutions for Livelihoods in Mangrove Landscapes
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This grant funds mangrove ecosystem restoration, protection, and sustainable livelihood development in Indonesia's North and East Kalimantan regions to advance climate mitigation and adaptation. It targets 20,000 poor and vulnerable coastal communities (40% women) through nature-based solutions, policy capacity-building, and improved fishing/aquaculture practices.
Inclusive climate action in Tunisian municipalities - ICATM
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This grant funds climate change adaptation and nature-based solutions in Tunisian municipalities, with emphasis on inclusive decision-making and leadership of women, youth, and vulnerable groups. It supports local climate-resilient infrastructure, capacity-building, and policy development across communes and national ministries.
Vietnam Climate-Smart Coastal Communities
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This grant funds climate adaptation and coastal biodiversity restoration in three vulnerable Vietnamese provinces through early warning systems, nature-positive business grants, and mangrove/coral reef rehabilitation. It targets 20,000 direct beneficiaries (75% women) and 200,000 indirect beneficiaries dependent on coastal and marine ecosystems.
Community-based conservation of coastal-marine biodiversity in Honduras
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This CAD 20.35M grant funds community-based coastal-marine biodiversity conservation in Honduras through protected area governance, ecosystem restoration, sustainable livelihoods, and policy strengthening. It targets vulnerable populations including women, youth, Indigenous, and Afro-descendant peoples dependent on marine and coastal ecosystems threatened by climate change and habitat loss.
Biodiversity governance innovation programme (BioGov) in Suriname
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This grant funds biodiversity governance strengthening in Suriname through technical assistance, data systems, and policy reform to enhance conservation and natural resource management. It prioritizes women, Indigenous Peoples, and tribal groups who depend on natural resources for livelihoods and wellbeing.
Biodiversity Financing
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The International Biodiversity Program funds initiatives to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by addressing direct drivers such as land/sea-use change, species overexploitation, invasive species, pollution, and agriculture. Applicants including women, Indigenous Peoples, and organizations working on conservation can submit unsolicited proposals on a rolling basis.