UNFCCC CAPACITY Fellowship Programme 2026 for mid-career professionals (EUR 4500 Monthly Stipend & Fully Funded to Bonn, Germany)

Application Deadline: 08 June 2026

Applications are actually open for the 2026 UNFCCC CAPACITY Fellowship Programme. Thanks to funding from the Government of Portugal, the UNFCCC secretariat is launching a brand new spherical of the Capacity Award Programme to Advance Capabilities and Institutional Training in a single Year (CAPACITY) Fellowship Programme, with the goal of growing the capability of negotiators and thereby
growing the extent of implementation of the Paris Agreement. The CAPACITY Fellowship Programme
contributes to constructing capability for addressing local weather change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) by way of the event of native skilled experience by:

• Supporting modern analytical work on local weather change within the context of sustainable
  improvement;
• Promoting a community of specialists who can carry inventive and modern choices to bear on
  questions of local weather change;
• Encouraging the management potential of younger and promising professionals of their fields.

One fellow shall be chosen from the goal group of mid-career professionals who’re already employed by a authorities or nationwide academic establishment and who’re nationals of, and dealing in, a Lusophone SIDS or LDC Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Principe, Angola, Mozambique or Timor-Leste.

Requirements

Educational background
Required: Master’s diploma in environmental science, economics, engineering, improvement research, or associated self-discipline. A mixture of a first-level college diploma and a further two years of related work expertise may be accepted in lieu of a sophisticated diploma.

Experience
Required: At least three (3) years of progressively accountable skilled expertise within the space of local weather change, together with on points relating to preparation of adaptation plans and implementation of adaptation actions.

Language abilities
Required: Proficiency in written and spoken English.
Desired: Knowledge of one other UN official language.

Other necessities

1. The Fellowship Programme is open to people who’re
   a. Currently employed in a governmental organisation (nationwide, regional, provincial or native), together with academic establishments, analysis institutes and ministries.
   b. Nationals of, and dealing in, a Lusophone SIDS or LDC Angola, Cabo Verde, GuineaBissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Principe, or Timor-Leste.
   c. Maximum of 40 years of age on the cut-off date of the emptiness announcement.
2. The secretariat will take into account candidates solely from Lusophone SIDS or LDC Parties with a view to
   guaranteeing gender steadiness within the number of candidates.

Benefits

• The fastened month-to-month stipend, together with allowances, is EUR 4,500.
• The UNFCCC secretariat will arrange and pay for journey to Bonn and again to the home nation upon completion of the fellowship.

Fellowship Location

• This fellowship is positioned within the UNFCCC secretariat in Bonn, Germany, within the Adaptation Division, and extra particularly within the Response Subdivision, which helps growing nation Parties, specifically LDCs and SIDS, in assessing impacts, dangers and vulnerability and in growing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on nationwide adaptation plans, insurance policies and actions.

Call for Application Document

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNFCCC CAPACITY Fellowship Programme