Canada Fund for Local Initiatives – Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 20, 2026

Applications are open for the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives – Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu 2026. The CFLI is a program designed to help small-scale, excessive-influence tasks in growing international locations, which align with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic precedence areas for engagement. The program is directed at tasks conceived and designed predominantly by native companions. Projects are chosen and permitted by the related Canadian embassy or excessive fee. The CFLI additionally serves to help optimistic bilateral relations between Canada and recipient international locations and their civil societies, by deepening contacts and supporting native endeavours.

The majority of CFLI funding is to be directed towards native civil society organizations (together with non-governmental organizations) and different establishments working on the native stage. Other entities, resembling worldwide, intergovernmental, multilateral and regional organizations could also be eligible for funding, offered they’re working with native companions and on native tasks which can be in line with the targets of the CFLI. Similarly, municipal, regional authorities establishments might obtain funding, offered that their tasks are primarily native in nature.

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• The common CFLI contribution is $30,000 to $60,000 Canadian Dollars (CAD$100,000 is the utmost allocation quantity for a challenge eligible underneath CFLI). 

Eligibility

Open to:

• Local non-governmental, neighborhood and not-for-profit organizations
• Local educational establishments engaged on native tasks
• International non-governmental organizations engaged on native improvement actions
• Intergovernmental, multilateral and regional establishments, organizations and companies engaged on native improvement actions
• Municipal, regional or nationwide authorities establishments or companies of the recipient nation engaged on native tasks
• Canadian non-governmental and not-for-profit organizations which can be engaged on native improvement actions

Application

The deadline for submission is March 20, 2026, at 23:59 (GMT+10). Applications submitted after this deadline won’t be thought of.

For extra info, go to CFLI.