Building Climate Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives Project

Deadline: 20 April 2025

Applicants are now invited to submit applications for “Building Climate Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives” (BCRIP, 2024-2028) Project, an Indigenous-led project aiming to support the climate resilience of Indigenous peoples.

The goals of these partnerships are knowledge sharing, relationship building, and advancing joint advocacy.

Focus Areas

Climate Adaptation and Nature-based Solutions
- The project proposal should focus on Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), with Nature Based Solutions (NbS) playing a fundamental role in advancing CCA efforts in the South.
Indigenous Rights, Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building
- The project proposal must uphold BCRIP’s fundamental parameters of Indigenous selfdetermination and individual and collective rights, Indigenous leadership, and collaboration.
Gender Equality
- The project proposal should advance BCRIP’s crosscutting theme of enhancing gender equality by protecting and advancing the individual and collective rights of Indigenous women, youth and 2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples.

Funding Information

Indigenous co-applicants in Canada will be able to apply for up to $207,000 per project over 12- 24 months; whereas the co-applicants from Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru will be able to apply for either of: CAD 100,000-122,000 (small grant) CAD 300,000-390,000 (medium grant), CAD 600,000-633,000 (large grant).

Eligibility Criteria

Are prepared and submitted by a First Nations in British Columbia; a Métis or Inuit organization1 in partnership with an Indigenous Nation or an Indigenous-led organization in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, or Peru, with the effective participation of Indigenous women in its governance preferred.
Registered organization, or Nation, or applying under a Fiscal Sponsor (Indigenous organization preferred).
Bank account registered to the organization, Nation, or Fiscal Sponsor (Indigenous organization preferred).
Demonstrate experience in financial management, controls, fiduciary oversight, project management.
The project design does not make financial investments or pay for activities that may result in reflows or may increase the value of the organization.

Application Requirements