Call for Applications: BSF Small Grants Programme (India)

The BSF Small Grants Programme is designed to bring together people and ideas across areas of expertise and call for collaborations across different professional backgrounds.

The small grants programme is an effort to enable and support local, innovative, cross-disciplinary, collaborative projects in Bengaluru to start off and grow into a sustainable future. They encourage projects that address key themes such as water security, ecosystem restoration, disaster preparedness, community-led adaptation strategies, climate-resilient infrastructure and more.

They look for proposals that link these themes to broader issues like social equity, economic development, and people-centred technological innovation. Cross-institutional collaborations with an interdisciplinary approach and involvement of on-ground stakeholders are encouraged.

Thematic Areas

• The projects primarily address issues related to one or more of the following thematics:
  • Urban Biodiversity,
  • Urban Water,
  • Urban Climate Change,
  • Urban Waste.
• The work supported by the Small Grants Programme spans a wide spectrum of interesting ideas and innovative formats, achieving an impressive breadth and depth of interventions for their city.

Funding Information

• Grant amount: up to 5 Lakh INR (subject to project scope and type – pilot implementation, research, communication, or documentation).
• Duration: up to 12 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• Proposals must address aspects of urban adaptation and resilience, either directly or in conjunction with other sustainable development goals.
• Projects should focus on Bangalore or its peri urban areas.
• The proposed project should involve at least two collaborators, with at least one of them being a registered organisation.
• Projects should have a strong community engagement component, emphasising participatory and locally driven solutions.
• Preference will be given to projects that are practical, scalable, and replicable in different contexts.

For more information, visit Bengaluru Sustainability Forum.