CAPaBLE (Capacity Building for Leadership in the Environment) Grant

About this grant

CAPaBLE (Capacity Building for Leadership in the Environment) is the scientific capacity development programme of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). It aims to strengthen the ability of scientists, policymakers and practitioners to assess global change issues and to explore options for resolving them in pursuit of sustainability. The programme works at individual, organisational and systemic levels. The page sets out the kinds of activity CAPaBLE supports. These include utilising and strengthening existing capacity, creating opportunities to use or instil capacity, developing new capacity through innovative approaches, and awareness-raising and dissemination for policy and decision-making communities, civil society and the general public. It also covers science-policy interfacing within APN's five thematic areas and priority topics, and capacity development partnerships that contribute to global frameworks such as the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, IPCC, IPBES, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework and the UN Decade of Ocean Science. Science communication aimed at non-science audiences is also supported. The thematic areas are air, land, coasts and oceans; biodiversity and ecosystems; climate; food, water and energy; risk and resilience; and social, economic and governance. The page lists funded capacity development projects, each with a project code and title, covering topics such as marine ecosystem resilience, urban waste management, climate-health resilience, community radio for disaster justice, flood early warning, rice pest management, weather observation networks, wetland conservation and transdisciplinary training for early-career professionals. The page does not state application procedures, eligibility rules, funding amounts, deadlines or evaluation criteria. Those details are presumably held on the linked call-for-proposals pages and in the FAQ, which this page does not contain.

Eligibility

The page does not state explicit eligibility criteria. It describes the programme's aims and the types of activity it supports, aimed at scientists, policymakers and practitioners working on global change in the Asia-Pacific region. Eligibility details, if any, would be found on APN's calls-for-proposals or FAQ pages.

Key requirements

• ✓Applicants must be scientists, policymakers, or practitioners working on global change issues
• ✓Activities must address capacity development at individual, organizational, or systemic levels
• ✓Focus on assessment of global change issues and exploration of sustainability options
• ✓Alignment with Asia-Pacific region priorities

Recent past awardees

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• Building marine ecosystem resilience: Capacity building for small-scale fishers to advance SDGs 13 and 14 in Asian countries · 2026
• Overcoming barriers to alternative waste management for climate-friendly and eliminating plastic pollution in ASEAN cities · 2026
• Last mile first: Translating digital flood alerts into offline communication for low-literacy rural communities in Sindh, Pakistan · 2026
• Cooling the heat, healing the mind: Building climate-health resilience for outdoor workers across Malaysia, India, and the Maldives · 2026
• Strengthening community radio for climate and disaster justice in South Asia · 2026
• Strengthening institutional capacity and farmer adoption of protective practices for climate-resilient pest management in South Asian rice farming · 2025
• Establishing a regional alliance for extreme precipitation observation: Coordinated capacity development and quality management of high-resolution automatic weather stations in South Asia · 2026
• Empowering site managers for effective wetland and migratory waterbird conservation in Asia: Building capacity through nature-based solutions, technology, and site-based responses to global change · 2025

Frequently asked questions

Who can apply for CAPaBLE (Capacity Building for Leadership in the Environment)?

Eligibility covers organisations in ASIA, OCEANIA; university, research-institution, nonprofit, local-authority. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.

Relevant sectors

About this sector

Climate adaptation funding helps communities, infrastructure and businesses prepare for heat, flooding, drought and sea level rise. Most of it is public and multilateral money, often targeted at vulnerable regions and delivered with local government. Calls usually ask for a climate risk assessment and evidence that local people shaped the plan.