KCDF Young Environmentalist Innovation Challenge 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Applications are invited for the KCDF Young Environmentalist Innovation Challenge 2025. The Young Environmentalist Innovative Challenge (YEIC) is an environmental innovation fund established by Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) via the beneficiant reward of Mackenzie Scott. Its intention is to develop motion-oriented younger folks with robust values and dedication to environmental conservation.

YEIC invites submissions of modern options that inculcate the spirit of environmental conservation and sustainable administration. The problem supplies funding to younger folks and youth-led organisations/corporations to scale modern options to environmental points.

This is the third public name for purposes to the KCDF YEIC fund. Its third version seeks to determine, help, and scale impactful environmental improvements led by younger people and youth-led organisations. Under the theme “Scaling Innovations for Environmental Impact,” the main target is on elevating confirmed options which have demonstrated success on the group degree and the place innovators are able to develop their attain and deepen their impression.

The problem is prioritising improvements that tackle urgent environmental points similar to local weather resilience, sustainable agriculture, round financial system, renewable vitality, and ecosystem restoration.

Benefits

• Category 1 (Three Young Environment Champions): Up to KES 1,500,000
• Category 2 (Five Youth-led Organisations): Up to KES 5,000,000

Eligibility

• Open to particular person youth (aged 15–35) with examined and impactful environmental improvements. (i.e an Individual or a bunch of people not formally registered)
• Registered youth-led organisations/corporations with scalable environmental initiatives. (i.e Civil Society organisations, Company Limited with shares, Company restricted by Guarantee, and many others)

Evaluation Criteria

• The modern answer has the flexibility to handle environmental challenges.
• The innovation can exhibit that it has the potential to profit the group in numerous areas, together with training, livelihoods, and environmental stewardship of younger folks.
• The innovation is sustainable and may exhibit the potential to proceed producing optimistic change and advantages to the group.
• Financial and operational capability: The making use of entities should exhibit the person’s or organisation’s/firm’s capacity to implement the innovation.

Application

All purposes should be submitted by way of the hyperlinks offered beneath. You might full the application offline utilizing the offered varieties after which add your responses by way of the submission hyperlink.

For extra info, go to YEIC.