Call for Applications: Youth for Zero Waste Grant (up to £7,000 GBP) for Young Climate leaders & Activists
Application Deadline: 29 September 2024
Call for Applications: Youth for Zero Waste Grant (up to £7,000 GBP) for Young Climate leaders & Activists
About UMI Fund
The Urban Movement Innovation Fund works to connect, align, and strengthen citizen engagement and activity for a more socially just, zero-carbon future. UMI Fund support innovative projects and foster collaboration across critical sectors and locations worldwide.
Overview
The world needs to transition to zero-waste in a just and equitable way. We need to ensure that all communities everywhere have access to environmentally just waste management. We need strong people-powered zero-waste projects and campaigns around the world. Projects and campaigns that centre communities and put pressure on governments and corporations to support and implement the fair transition to zero waste.
The UMI Fund is looking to support emerging young climate leaders and highly promising youth-led organisations or groups working on strategic projects and community efforts to accelerate zero waste and environmental justice.
Is this fund for me?
The Youth for Zero Waste grant aims to support young climate leaders & activists who have an environmentally just zero-waste project or strategic campaign plan that they are working to implement.
Eligibility
- Be between the ages of 18-34
- Have a clear project idea about an environmentally just transition to Zero Waste that can be worked on in end of 2024/2025
- Have a clear timeline for the implementation of your idea of between 3-9 months (between December 2024 and August 2025)
- Have identified key stakeholders and/or audiences that you want to influence and engage or mobilise, short and long-term goals and how you will assess your impact
What will be funded?
- Creative and/or innovative zero-waste projects
- Cultural campaigning tactics to help shift public narratives around waste management. For example (but not limited to), making a case for zero-waste, countering the false solution of “waste to energy,” and/or highlighting the co-benefits of zero-waste (e.g., climate, livelihoods, health, economic benefit, transport).
More examples of activities UMI Fund is looking to support:
- Going from concept note to project design and implementation
- Identifying & sensing key audiences or conducting research/insights into the challenges and opportunities in your context
- Training community members
- Delivering a series of impactful campaign moments/tactics
- Engaging and reaching more audiences
- Training/upskilling towards delivering on ongoing environmentally just zero-waste goals
UMI Fund will be prioritising the global South regionally and particularly interested in projects and campaigns that embed environmental justice principles:
- Respect planetary boundaries to ensure intergenerational equity
- Respect for all waste pickers and waste workers
- Enhance inclusion and build from local knowledge
- Respond to pollution and environmental harm with accountability
- Support holistic solutions through systems change
Selection Criteria will include:
- Impact potential: The project has the potential for real impact – and applicants have clearly explained how their idea could lead to change. The project is strategic and has clear objectives within a good understanding of the challenges and opportunities in their context.
- Multiplier effect: The project has the potential to be replicable or scaleable towards an even greater impact. Or it could serve as a “lighthouse” project to inspire others through impactful storytelling.
- Commitment and values: Applicants commit to an environmentally just process and project and/or they have shown through prior work that they are committed to climate justice and have an inclusive non-violent approach to their project. They have demonstrated how they will embed environmental justice principles.
- Level of zero-waste experience: Applicants are knowledgeable about zero-waste best practices and community outreach.
- Level of campaigning experience: Applicants have shown that they have already begun to play an active role in climate or civil society campaigning or activism – at a local, regional, national or global level – and are having some success.
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