Open Call for Proposals: Apply for the RISE Grants Challenge
Jun 20, 2022
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IUCN
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In 2022, the world is arguably facing multiple overlapping pandemics - COVID-19 itself together with gender-based violence (GBV), climate change and biodiversity loss.
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.
Following lessons and promising practices from the previous two RISE phases, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), under its partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT) and its Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages Center (GBV-ENV Center) will continue to support evidence-based strategies to address gender-based violence in environment and climate-related programming. RISE will invest in:
- new interventions that address GBV in environment sectors;
- integrated approaches that embed GBV components in existing environmental programming or related activities; and
- existing GBV-environment programming that aims to continue, scale up or replicate an intervention.
RISE anticipates funding between three and six projects of USD 100,000 – USD 400,000 each, with implementation timelines of 18-24 months in one or more targeted geographies. RISE grantees participate as a RISE learning cohort and benefit from technical support and a community of practice from IUCN and partners via the GBV-ENV Center. In 2022, RISE priorities include: generating learning on promising practices for addressing gender-based violence in climate-vulnerable contexts and in relation to protecting the rights and safety of environmental defenders, as well as adaptive management in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.