Lake Chad Climate Justice Youth Fellowship 2025
Deadline: Unspecified
Applications are open for the Lake Chad Climate Justice Youth Fellowship 2025. The Lake Chad Climate Justice Youth Fellowship, carried out by the Development of Educational Action Network (DEAN Initiative) and funded by the Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF) is designed to empower younger grassroots leaders from communities across the Lake Chad Basin to interact in local weather justice advocacy, group mobilization, and native local weather options.
The Lake Chad area faces extreme challenges stemming from local weather change, together with a 90% discount within the lake’s measurement, resulting in desertification, useful resource shortage, and the collapse of conventional livelihoods akin to agriculture and fishing. These environmental impacts have heightened social tensions, fueled insecurity, and displaced communities, leaving girls and women significantly weak.
Youth within the area, although disproportionately affected, are underrepresented in local weather motion as a result of boundaries like restricted sources, insufficient expertise, and lack of entry to advocacy platforms.
Benefits
The Lake Chad Climate Justice Fellowship gives chosen members the next advantages:
- Skill Development: Practical coaching in advocacy, storytelling, and undertaking implementation tailor-made to the Lake Chad context.
- Access to Funding Opportunities: Seed funding of $1,500 to every fellow to implement local weather justice initiatives on the grassroots degree.
- Global Exposure: Opportunities to interact with worldwide local weather leaders and attend world conferences.
- Mentorship: One-on-one steering from skilled local weather activists and practitioners.
Networking: Connection with a regional and world community of younger local weather justice advocates. - Community Impact: Support to design and implement options tackling GBV, insecurity, and local weather challenges in your group.
- Policy Advocacy: Platforms to affect native, nationwide, and worldwide local weather insurance policies.
Eligibility
- Applicant should be between 18 and 35 years outdated on the time of application.
- Open to candidates from the Lake Chad area (Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger).
- Demonstrated ardour or expertise in local weather justice, advocacy, or environmental sustainability.
- Must decide to the complete 24-month fellowship period and all program actions.
Application
Complete the net application together with private data, assertion of objective (300-500 phrases), and CV highlighting related expertise.
For extra data, go to Lake Chad Climate Justice Youth Fellowship.
