Future Rising Fellowship Programme 2022

DEADLINE: March 11, 2022

Future Rising Fellowship Programme 2022

This year, the Fellowship will focus around two specific areas – FOOD AND WATER SECURITY or LOCAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS. This means that applicants should propose narrative/storytelling projects focused on one or other of these two areas.

Applicants can attend their virtual info sessions for guidance on project proposals.

• FOOD AND WATER SECURITY

Climate change is causing food and water scarcity all over the world. People in poorer countries who contribute least to carbon emissions are most likely to experience food and water insecurity. Among these people, girls and women suffer first and worst, being most likely to experience malnutrition, starvation, ill health, violence or displacement.

But there is a flipside to this story. Despite being disproportionately affected by adverse effects of the climate crisis, girls and women are uniquely positioned to be vital agents of sustainability in their communities. That’s because they frequently play critical roles in their community’s relationship to land, food production, agricultural practices and access to water for drinking or irrigation. All over the world, girls and women are already innovating and implementing new practices and methods to safeguard access to food and water for themselves, their families and their communities.

The 2022 Future Rising Fellowship program seeks to support young leaders who are working on food and water security with a gender equity lens, OR who are telling the stories of girls or women working to secure access to adequate food and water through advocacy, community organizing or activism or through sustainable practices like crop rotation, agroforestry, regenerative farming, sustainable fishing and nature-based solutions, among others.

• LOCAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS

The Future Rising Fellowship program seeks to support grassroots and local initiatives that are being led by girls and women, that are designed to specifically support girls and women, or that seek to amplify the voices of girls and women who are building resilience and addressing immediate impacts of climate change where they live. The Fellowship is also available to eligible storytellers who are working on projects that are directly related to girls’ education, local leadership and locally focused efforts to adapt to or mitigate the impacts of climate change. Projects may be based anywhere in the world and in any kind of a setting (urban or rural). They may be related to any environmental justice, climate adaptation or mitigation efforts led by or focused on girls and women’s ability to adapt or mitigate the effects of climate change. Applications could be about regenerative agriculture, deforestation, conservation, biodiversity, rewilding, economic empowerment, environmental health, clean air or water, displacement or other direct effects of climate change. We also recognize that climate change has many indirect impacts on girls and women – for example gender based violence and child marriage increase as a result of the adverse climate impacts like drought. We are eager to tell stories and welcome applications that connect climate change to these hidden impacts. Though we welcome projects that are very local and small in scale, we are most able to support projects that have at least reached an initial pilot phase with a demonstrated proof of concept.

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APPLICATION PROCESS

• You must apply by completing the application form, answering all the questions, and uploading work samples. Incomplete applications cannot be considered.
• There are no application costs.
• Interviews with qualifying candidates will take place via zoom in April 2022.
• Announcements for the selected Fellows will be in early May 2022.

APPLY HERE