Competition for Youth-Led Projects 2026-2027 for youth-led  students/young professionals projects (3000 CHF prize) – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline: thirty first August 2026

Applications at the moment are open for the Competition for Youth-Led Projects. Youth are among the many teams most susceptible to the impacts of local weather change – notably to floods and droughts, which have gotten extra frequent and intense in lots of areas. At the identical time, they maintain immense potential to contribute options and improve resilience via their data, expertise, and entry to applied sciences. Despite this, their participation and voices stay underrepresented in local weather motion and decision-making processes.

Given their vulnerability and potential, participating youth in international local weather efforts isn’t merely an possibility however an important precedence – for enhancing flood and drought resilience, selling native local weather motion, and contributing to Early Warnings for All (EW4All). 

The Competition for Youth-Led Projects goals to:

• Empower younger folks to design and lead sensible options for catastrophe threat discount, preparedness, and response.
• Strengthen neighborhood resilience via projects rooted in native wants.
• Encourage youth engagement and present the impacts youth could make in constructing flood and drought resilience. 

Eligibility Criteria

Mandatory Requirements:

The proposed projects should: 

• Be youth-led (students/young professionals aged 18 – 35) and reveal the energetic participation and engagement of youth of all ages beneath 35 in the proposed mission actions.
• Be sensible, results-oriented, have clearly recognized aims, timeline, and scope. 
• Demonstrate a concrete contribution to enhancing resilience to floods and drought with tangible outputs. 
• Be carried out inside a most of 9 months. 

• Be scalable and sustainable in time. 
• Include a possible revolutionary aspect (e.g., combining Indigenous and scientific approaches, a brand new neighborhood engagement mannequin, low-cost adaptation strategies, robust ladies’s engagement, and so forth.) 

Benefits

• Two prizes consisting of 3000 CHF every might be awarded to chosen projects that are consistent with the aims and choice standards of the competitors. Awarded mission leaders will implement their initiatives over 9 months, with steering and help from consultants on floods and drough

How to submit your proposal:

Before submitting your proposal, please learn the submission tips fastidiously. 

Proposals might be submitted in English or Spanish. To submit your proposal, please full the next submission kind:

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Competition for Youth-Led Projects