Amos Trust Climate Fellowship 2025/2026 – YOA

Deadline: February 9, 2025

Applications are open for the Amos Trust Climate Fellowship 2025/2026. This programme brings collectively younger feminine land defenders and local weather activists from Mexico and Central America, equipping them with coaching and funding to implement tasks to cut back girls’s vulnerability to local weather change, enhance girls’s management in local weather motion and safeguard habitats and lands underneath menace.

This 12-month programme is about to start in March 2025, that includes the next key parts:

• Enhancement of Project Management Skills and Development: During the three months, they are going to conduct 4 on-line coaching periods to equip contributors with the instruments and data to design and develop local weather-gender tasks. Participants will obtain supplementary supplies and mentorship as wanted to assist the creation of their mission proposals. Following the coaching interval, contributors could have extra weeks to finalise their proposals earlier than submitting them to the Amos workforce for assessment.
• In-Person Learning Circle: From twelfth to sixteenth May, they are going to host an in-particular person studying circle in Isla Arena, Mexico, at a group-run ecotourism website. This assembly will undertake a feminist studying mannequin, emphasising horizontal, group-primarily based approaches rooted in dialogue, reflection, and shared studying. Participants will type a supportive group of girls defending their lands, setting and local weather, exchanging data and experiences. The assembly may even foster collaboration between the primary and second cohorts, with the primary cohort sharing insights on mission implementation to encourage and inform the brand new contributors.
• Implementation of Youth-Led Climate Projects: Participants could have six months, beginning in July, to implement their tasks. Each mission can be supported with a funds of as much as $2,500 USD per participant, divided into two funds. The second cost can be contingent on the submission of a progress report after three months. A closing report can be required upon completion of the mission implementation.
• Ongoing Capacity Building: Throughout the six months of mission implementation, they are going to host extra on-line periods to handle particular wants recognized throughout the registration course of. These periods might characteristic visitor audio system or encourage peer-to-peer studying amongst contributors. The Amos workforce can also go to some chosen tasks to realize deeper insights into the processes and learnings throughout the contributors’ communities.
• Amplification of Voices and Narratives: Participants can be inspired to share their experiences defending their territories, advocating for local weather justice, and implementing their tasks by way of platforms similar to conferences, shows, podcasts, blogs, and different storytelling alternatives.
• Creation of a Youth Women Climate Network: They consider within the energy of ‘holding together’. This programme goals to foster an area that promotes a way of belonging, collective power, and resilience, constructing a community of younger girls united of their dedication to local weather motion and land defence.

Eligibility

• This OPPORTUNITY has been tailor-made for younger feminine land defenders and local weather activists in Mexico and Central America (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama). Note there’s a most of 12 locations.
• Recognising the intersectional nature of gender, they strongly encourage purposes from trans girls and different girls throughout the LGBTIQ+ group, girls of color, girls with disabilities, and Indigenous girls.
• Participants ought to fall throughout the age vary of 18 to 35 years outdated. Ideal candidates ought to suggest a mission concept that may be accomplished inside a most timeframe of six months that focuses on a number of of the next targets: decreasing girls’s vulnerability to local weather change, growing their participation in local weather motion, or defending threatened habitats and lands with a gender perspective.
• Candidates ought to exhibit an curiosity in receiving coaching on mission administration to efficiently implement their proposed tasks. They also needs to be open to taking part in a collaborative studying setting alongside different fellows, the place extra matters proposed by the contributors may even be addressed.
• Candidates ought to be out there to take part in an in-particular person studying circle with contributors from each the present and former fellowships, scheduled from twelfth-sixteenth May 2025, in Isla Arena, Campeche, Mexico, when Amos Trust can be overlaying the price of transportation, lodging and meals.

Application

The application deadline is Sunday, ninth February 2025, with the programme scheduled to start out in March 2025.

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For extra data, go to Amos Trust Climate Fellowship.