Call for Proposals: CCAC Food & Nutrition Challenge 2025 – YOA

Deadline: August 6, 2025

Applications are open for the CCAC Food & Nutrition Challenge 2025. In a change from previous CCAC calls for proposals concentrating on motion in sectors, this 12 months the CCAC is looking for to fund progressive, cross-sector tasks that reply to a selected “challenge” — particularly those who unite the tremendous pollutant group round a typical purpose.

Through the Food & Nutrition Challenge, the CCAC is looking for progressive cross-sector proposals that advance a number of focus areas outlined beneath:

• Strengthen the pure cycles, enhancing at scale nutrient and materials flows between rural and concrete methods, or inside the rural or city round/bio economies diverting natural waste for higher makes use of (e.g. landscaping, gardening/farming, bio-primarily based merchandise or others) and boosting resilience by way of (city/rural) planning, improvement, infrastructure, logistics, monetary mechanisms together with certification and commerce, whereas taking native circumstances and traditions into consideration;
• Advance agroecological practices and measures to protect soils, atmosphere and livelihoods improved meals safety, resilience to local weather change/desertification and vitamin outcomes resembling application of the soil conditioner compost/digestate at scale and soil administration, crop diversification, intercropping, agroforestry, integrating crop and livestock;
• Expand alongside the whole worth chain vitality-environment friendly chilly, sustainable and inclusive chilly-chain companies primarily based on low- and extremely-low GWP refrigerants, HFC options or different companies that result in a considerable discount of meals loss, together with farmer entry to publish-harvest product storage and “first mile” infrastructure to move produce.
• Support the prevention wastage of edible meals or the redistribution of meals waste, which is suitable for consumption, together with by way of infrastructure and better funding at sub-nationwide stage. Proposals responding to this focus space ought to assist the aims of the COP29 Declaration on Reducing Methane from Organic Waste.
• Shape and strengthen monetary methods to doc GHG emission reductions in a clear, accountable method and to create/use clear, topic-associated indicators for all GHG/tremendous pollutant emissions sources to exhibit a wider impression associated to framework situations or replicability or alike, with a transparent methodology outlined within the challenge proposal.  

Budget

• The estimated challenge price: $2,000,000.

Eligibility

• To be eligible for consideration, challenge proposals have to be:  
  • Complete  
  • Relevant  
  • Submitted on time  
  • Within the funds vary set within the name for proposals
  • Less than 24 months in length
  • Compliant with CCAC gender standards
• The CCAC can solely fund non-revenue entities, which embrace non-governmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and authorities entities.
• For-profit entities should not eligible to obtain CCAC funding, although could take part in tasks as stakeholders, collaborators, or co-funders. Applicants are inspired to incorporate for-profit entities within the improvement of the challenge proposal and through challenge implementation when their possession of the proposed answer is essential to the challenge’s success.

Selection Criteria

• Proposals ought to goal not less than two of the main focus areas outlined above and present cross-sector approaches to decreasing meals loss & waste
• Proposals ought to goal progressive approaches which are collaborative, scalable, and tackle greater than one of many above-talked about challenges
• Proposals ought to present GHG/tremendous pollutant reductions and impacts of all non-GHG/tremendous pollution-associated areas by indicators
• Proposals ought to clearly define their proposed strategy/methodology
• Engagement with sub-nationwide, personal sector and different stakeholders is inspired  
• Proposals from consortiums are inspired together with from native NGOs, authorities entities, and worldwide organizations
• Proposals with co-funding or in-sort contributions are inspired together with from personal sector stakeholders or different donor schemes than these of CCAC
• Proposals should goal actions in ODA-eligible international locations  

Application

Step 1

• Complete the Challenge Programme Concept Note (available here)
• Complete the Challenge Programme Google Form with applicant data (available here)
• Upload the Concept Note to the Google Form (in phrase format) together with any further paperwork
• Submit the Google Form with the hooked up Concept Note to the CCAC Secretariat for evaluation. Note submission of your application through the Google Form is required for your proposal to be thought-about

Step 2

• Upon submission of your Concept Note, the CCAC Secretariat could contact you requesting further data or clarifying questions.  
• Should your Concept Note achieve success, you may be invited to submit an in depth challenge proposal and funds. Full proposals will then endure in-depth evaluation by the CCAC Secretariat and related technical consultants, with the ultimate collection of proposals for funding to be made by the CCAC Board.  

For extra data, go to CCAC Food & Nutrition Challenge.