Call for Proposals: International Climate Initiative (IKI) Small Grants for climate and biodiversity action by local organisations worldwide

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Closing Date: 15 January 2025

Call for Proposals: International Climate Initiative (IKI) Small Grants for climate and biodiversity action by local organisations worldwide

Overview

Up to 200,000 euros in funding now available for climate and biodiversity action by local organisations worldwide. The international call for proposals by International Climate Initiative (IKI) Small Grants addresses regional, national, and local organisations based in ODA-eligible countries (except for current and potential EU member candidates, other than Ukraine). They are invited to apply directly for funding for local or regional climate and biodiversity action and projects. International Climate Initiative (IKI) Small Grants provides funding of between EUR 60,000 and 200,000 and is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Government.

Ambitious project proposals should focus on one or more of the following IKI funding areas:

Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions
Adapting to the impacts of climate change
Preserving and restoring natural carbon sinks with a focus on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

Conserving biological diversity

The selected organisations are accompanied and supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, which implements the IKI Small Grants Programme on behalf of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the Federal Foreign Office (AA) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV).

Effective small-scale projects for climate and biodiversity action worldwide

Five calls for proposals have already been implemented, and 120 projects by local organisations in over 50 countries have been selected so far. These actors are essential as agents of change. They are at the frontline where climate change and biodiversity loss show the greatest impact. Besides financing, organisations and actors receive support in building their role as strong actors. For example, in Nepal, reforestation efforts by various IKI Small Grants projects have restored 5,000 hectares of woodland; around the size of the country’s capital, Kathmandu.

In Colombia, local organisation Fundación Con Vida managed to reforest 12 hectares of wetlands as part of an IKI Small Grants project with native tree species in swamps that are home to manatee, pumas and jaguars currently under threat of extinction. Organisations ready to make an impact are invited to step forward and apply and contribute to the shared goal of local climate action for global change.

Further information including the funding information and application guidelines can be found at https://iki-small-grants.de/application/