Applications for the Global EbA Fund are currently accepted. Two financing tracks—one for general EbA project applications and the other for topical projects—were created by the Global EbA Fund in 2023. The General EbA project proposals track receives and evaluates entries year-round, while the Global EbA Fund makes financing choices every two years.
The Global EbA Fund, which is being implemented by IUCN and UNEP with funding from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), is a catalytic funding mechanism for supporting creative EbA approaches in order to foster environments that will allow for their mainstreaming and scaling up.
Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) is a natural approach that uses biodiversity and ecosystem services to make human societies less vulnerable to climate change and more resilient to it. EbA is described as the utilization of environmental services and biodiversity as a component of a larger adaptation strategy to assist people in coping with the negative consequences of climate change.
Benefit:
- A grant in the range of USD 50,000 to USD 250,000 for up to 24 months.
Note:
- The Fund may consider project durations up to 36 months (Additional justification is required).
Eligibility:
- Projects may have a global, thematic, regional, and/or country-specific focus.
- If the project has a country-specific focus, it must be targeted to one or more countries that are eligible for official development assistance (ODA) based on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) list at the time of application.
- Regional/multi-country projects, particularly projects designed to foster regional exchange and achieve regional-scale impacts, are eligible.
- For multi-country projects, which are projects involving activities in more than one country, all of the countries must be ODA-eligible.
- Projects with a global or thematic focus, not targeted to a specific region or country, are also eligible.
Note:
- The Fund will not grant directly to government partners.
- UNEP and IUCN offices are not currently eligible.
- Applicants have to apply via the official submission form available at the apply link.
- All required application documents must be submitted via email to Submit.EbAFund@iucn.org.
Note:
- Applications must be submitted in English.
- Official documents of the organization and register entries must be translated into English.
