Resilience Fellowship Grant

About this grant

The Resilience Fellowship is an initiative launched in October 2019 by the Global Initiative Against Organized Crime to build a platform for cross-sectoral, global and interdisciplinary collaboration to counter the effects of organized crime. Each year, the Fellowship has a chosen theme focusing on a global issue around which fellows collaborate to find new perspectives and responses drawn from their diverse but shared experiences. Fellows are supported in their work with communities, encouraged to pursue collaborative projects, and provided with mentorship, training opportunities and different international platforms for the dissemination of their work. Past themes have included disappearances related to organized crime, extortion and organized crime, environmental crime, human rights, fragility and resilience, investigating illicit economies and instability, strengthening women's resilience to organized environmental crime, and journalism focused on security challenges.

Eligibility

The application form requests applicants' full name, nationality, areas of work, and contact email. While not explicitly stated, the fellowship appears to prioritize individuals working on community-level responses to organized crime in affected regions, as evidenced by the selection of fellows from locations including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Venezuela, Romania, Colombia, Kenya, Philippines, Mexico, and Cambodia. Applicants must demonstrate how organized crime has affected their community and explain their understanding of resilience and their efforts to encourage it.

How it's scored

Applications are evaluated based on responses to six key questions: how organized crime has affected the applicant's community with emphasis on the annual fellowship theme; what resilience means to the applicant and actions taken to encourage it; what tools are needed to continue the work; why support from the fellowship is needed; what the applicant hopes to achieve and gain from the programme with clear and specific actions; and coordination mechanisms if executing other grants or fellowships. A short biography (maximum 2 pages) and portfolio of work with samples (maximum 5 MB) are required supporting documents.

Key requirements

• ✓Work on frontline responses to organized crime
• ✓Thematic alignment with annual fellowship focus (e.g., environmental crime, human rights, extortion)
• ✓Individual applicant or representative of eligible organization

Recent past awardees

Knowing who's won the last rounds tells you whether you're in the strike zone.

• Benoit Kikwaya · 2020
• Clavel Rangel · 2020
• Ioana Bauer · 2020
• Isabel Zuleta · 2020
• Judie Kaberia · 2020
• Mae Paner · 2020
• Maria Isabel Cruz · 2020
• Rafael Lerma · 2020

Frequently asked questions

Who can apply for Resilience Fellowship?

Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; individual, nonprofit, community-group. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.

Relevant sectors

About this sector

Environmental justice funding supports communities most exposed to pollution and climate harm, with an emphasis on local leadership. It is offered by public programmes and foundations, often as grants to community organisations and partnerships. Calls typically ask how residents are involved in decisions and how benefits stay in the community.