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Information “Voices for Just Climate Action” Program

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• Website: https://hivos.org/program/voices-for-just-climate-action/ 
• Project period: 2021 – 2024 
• Countries of intervention: Tunisia 

Information on the Open Call for Application

• Themes: Climate justice and Art 
• Sectors of intervention:  water, food sovereignty, renewable energy, access to natural resources, just transition, human rights and climate change, etc… 
• Countries of implementation: Tunisia 
• Available amount for financing: 20000 – 50000 euro  
• Language Requirements: English 
• Application deadline: 31/10/2021 at 17.00 (Tunis Time) 
• Notification date: 15/11/2021
• Required documents: full proposal and budget (please see the template attached in annex)
• Selection process: 
  • -Step 1: Complete the full proposal and budget  
  • – Step 2: Shortlisted applicants will be contacted for potential interviews 
  • – Step 3: Due diligence and documentation review 
  • – Step 4: Budget review  
  • – Step 5: Contracting process

1) Description: 

Are you a cultural organization, individual artist, or activist? We are looking for interested organization, groups, individuals to apply for the Art_Act4Just_Climate call. To apply, please read carefully the following ToRs. 

Hivos now has funding available for organizations in Tunisia that want to use arts to communicate and engage audiences in climate justice and climate change in relation with natural resources, economic development etc, with a specific attention to underrepresented groups, urban poor, rural communities, people with disabilities and all other marginalized people. 

Hivos welcomes applications from any kind of artists who worked in producing communication materials and audio-visual, written pieces, comic strips, videos, infographic, songs, etc … and creative products.

Hivos aims to bring culture and artivism to advocate and raise voices using a creative and new inspiring tools and products that could influence more widely public and decision makers as well. 

2) Eligible Applicants:

• National and local organizations, operating in Tunisia 
• Tunisian artists can apply with CSOs as partners, the partnership could be structured in a Memorandum of Understanding MoU or any other formalities.
• Formal and informal CSOs, CBOs, FBOs, grassroots organizations, local climate action champions established in Tunisia, individuals allied to existed networks 
• Applicants and partners must have been established for at least three fiscal years at the deadline for submission of project proposals. 

3) Areas of Support and Eligible intervention 

• Project activities must be implemented in Tunisia particularly in rural and urban poor and vulnerable area (coastal, forest, oasis, etc…), and have strong linkages with specific groups mentioned in the section 1 (Description)

• Applicants and partners shall submit only one project proposal under this Call. 
• Support can be provided to projects that will carry out activities in environmental / social sector, more specifically in access to energy, water, food, natural resources
• The planned duration of a project must be between 12 and 24 months

• Eligible interventions 

• • Develop and produce materials on climate justice, related e.g. with water, energy, food sovereignty and access to natural resources, 

• Organise advocacy campaigns to influence decision makers and contribute to raising voices of underrepresented groups Develop digital tools and platforms for sensitising wider public about climate rights and equity 

• Etc…

4) General Rules: 

• Individual applicants could apply with legal entities (CSOs, national NGO, other organization under the CSOs national law)
• The proposals must be written in English language  
• All proposals submitted after the deadline will be automatically rejected 
• All kind of consortium and or unusual alliance are very welcome 

Voices for climate action program:

About Hivos: 

Hivos is an international development organization guided by humanist values. Together with citizens and their organizations, we aim to contribute towards just, inclusive and life sustaining societies where people have equal access to opportunities, rights and resources. We work in partnership with others in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America on three impact areas: civic rights; gender equality, diversity and inclusion, and climate justice. Our approach is solution driven, and we build wider movements for change by amplifying and connecting voices.

Hivos works for a world where people can realize their full potential, unleashing their ingenuity and creativity to build fair, just and life-sustaining societies for themselves and generations to come. Our mission is to amplify and connect voices that promote social and environmental justice and challenge power imbalances. We particularly empower marginalized rightsholders to raise their voice and demand freedom of choice.

Hivos supports the development of alternative solutions to deep-seated problems so that individuals and communities can make responsible and equitable choices within political and economic systems that serve their needs and preserve the planet. We connect people and organizations offering alternatives to those looking for solutions in their fight for social and environmental justice.

About VCA programme: 

The Voices for Climate Action (VCA) programme is a lobby and advocacy programme being implemented by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Netherlands, SouthSouthNorth (SSN), Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA), Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Fundación Avina and Hivos under the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ five-year strategic partnership: “Power of Voices”.

The programme aims to ensure that by 2025, local civil society and underrepresented groups will have taken on a central role as creators, facilitators and advocates of innovative and inclusive climate solutions. Their inclusion is crucial for effective and lasting climate responses. It is also crucial, and because the climate crisis is also a societal challenge with ethical and human rights aspects occurring alongside a number of inequalities based on gender, socioeconomic class, race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, and age. The overall approach of the programme is to work with civil society to build widespread societal support for locally shaped climate solutions through an inclusive and rights-based approach. 

This includes building a broad-based climate alliance at country level, bridging divides (urban-rural, gender, youth) that amplifies voices in new unusual ways. In addition, it will influence national and global policies and financial flows (e.g. climate finance, private sector investments) in support of these locally shaped solutions. Climate justice approach Climate change is essentially a human rights issue because of its devastating effect on human life – and rights. It exacerbates existing inequalities between rich and poor, ethnicities, sexes, generations and communities. It undermines democracy and threatens the economy and development at large. Likewise, by far the greatest burden falls on those already in poverty and on underrepresented groups such as Indigenous peoples, the rural and urban poor, women and youth, although they are the least responsible for climate change. Through a climate justice approach, the programme intends to see an expanded civic space where civil society voices, in particular those of indigenous and/or marginalised people are heard on climate action. 

Overall Objective of the programme: 

The programme aims to ensure that by 2025, local civil society and underrepresented groups will have taken on a central role as creators, facilitators, and advocates of innovative and inclusive climate solutions. 

Specific objectives: 

• Mutual capacity strengthening for CSOs and entrepreneurs to co-create alternative climate solutions and connect.
• Knowledge system strengthening to enable inclusive and accessible agenda setting and climate action movement through amplified storytelling
• Joint lobbying and advocacy provide an enabling environment for civic space 

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