Applications Invited for IKI Medium Grant 2023

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About the Organization

The International Climate Initiative (IKI) is an important part of the German government's international climate finance commitment. Since 2022 the IKI is implemented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) in close cooperation with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and the Federal Foreign Office (AA). Through the IKI, the ministries jointly support approaches in developing and emerging countries to implement and ambitiously develop the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) anchored in the Paris Agreement. This includes measures to adapt to the impacts of climate change and to conserve and rebuild natural carbon sinks, taking into account environmental, economic and social concerns. The IKI also supports its partner countries in achieving the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The three ministries jointly agree on the basic IKI framework. This includes the instruments that help ensure and verify the values and responsibilities of the IKI, the various funding calls and external communication.

About the Grant

The IKI Medium Grants funding programme supports civil society organisations that are required to have a registered office in Germany when the awarded grants are disbursed. Together with partner organisations from ODA1 -eligible countries of implementation, these organisations implement measures to strengthen North–South cooperation for climate action, adaptation to climate change, and biodiversity conservation. The IKI Office of Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH implements the IKI Medium Grants as an entrusted project management agency within the framework of the IKI.

The objectives of the IKI Medium Grants are to explore innovative bottom-up approaches to fulfilling the Paris Agreement and the CBD (with the goal of beingtaken up by other non-state actors), to strengthen capacities (of implementing organisations and partners as well as other actors of civil society in the partner countries as knowledge carriers and implementation partners in the climate sector) and to support the global networking of civil society between North and South. The programme is thus intended to contribute to the inclusion of the voices of civil society by partner governments in the transformation towards CO2 neutrality as well as to the internationally networked cooperation on climate action, the adaptation to climate change, and biodiversity conservation. The IKI is implemented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) in close cooperation with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and the Federal Foreign Office (AA).

Objectives of the project measures –

The Federal Government of Germany shall award grants according to this funding announcement for up to twelve projects and a total funding volume of up to EUR 8 million. With the funding announcement projects on one of the two funding priorities listed below are sought: -

• Piloting of sub-national decarbonisation initiatives
• Innovative pilot projects with smallholders and cooperatives to strengthen deforestation-free supply chains

The funded decarbonisation pilot projects serve to move away from fossil fuels and climate-damaging applications and technologies in the areas of sustainable energy supply, energy efficiency, sector coupling and sustainable mobility and thus contribute to both the implementation and ambition raising of NDCs through sub-national climate partnerships between civil society, public administration, and relevant networks. The funded innovative pilot projects with smallholders and cooperatives to strengthen deforestationfree supply chains serve to implement the EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains and contribute to the goals of the Paris Agreement and the CBD as well as to improve the integrity and functionality of the ecosystems concerned.

Through their implementation focus, the project measures contribute to the gradual achievement of the IKI Medium Grants programme objectives as well as to the climate action objectives of the Federal Government of Germany. They also encourage the emulation and implementation of further activities for climate action and biodiversity conservation.

This funding announcement describes the object of funding, the criteria for project selection and implementation, and the procedure for the IKI Medium Grants funding programme.

Object of funding -

The IKI Medium Grants are aimed at actors of civil society (implementing organisation) who can prove the existence of a permanent business establishment, branch office, or other facility in Germany when the awarded grants are first disbursed. Together with local partner organisations (implementing partners) in selected ODA-eligible countries of implementation, measures to strengthen North–South cooperation for climate action, adaptation to climate change, and biodiversity conservation are to be implemented. The objective of the IKI Medium Grants is explicitly aimed at strengthening these actors of civil society as well as their international network. Specifically, IKI Medium Grants support project activities that address innovative bottom-up contributions to implementing the Paris Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity. The following funding priorities, to which interested actors with innovative project ideas can apply, serve this purpose.

How to Apply

The deadline for submitting project outlines for this year's ideas competition is 4 July 2023, at 12.00 p.m. (CEST).

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