IDMP/APFM Competition for Youth-Led Projects 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: August 31, 2026

Applications are invited for the IDMP/APFM Competition for Youth-Led Projects 2026-2027. Youth are among the many teams most susceptible to the impacts of local weather change – significantly 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 by their information, expertise, and entry to applied sciences. Despite this, their participation and voices stay underrepresented in local weather motion and resolution-making processes.

Given their vulnerability and potential, partaking youth in international local weather efforts is just not merely an possibility however a vital 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 by initiatives rooted in native wants.
• Encourage youth engagement and present the impacts youth could make in constructing flood and drought resilience. 

Prizes

• Two prizes consisting of three,000 CHF every can be awarded to chosen initiatives that are in keeping with the targets and choice standards of the competitors. Awarded mission leaders will implement their initiatives over 9 months, with steering and help from specialists on floods and drought.

Eligibility

The proposed initiatives should: 

• Be youth-led (college students/younger professionals aged 18 – 35) and reveal the lively participation and engagement of youth of all ages beneath 35 in the proposed mission actions.
• Be sensible, outcomes-oriented, have clearly recognized targets, 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 progressive factor (e.g., combining Indigenous and scientific approaches, a brand new neighborhood engagement mannequin, low-value adaptation strategies, robust girls’s engagement, and so forth.) 

Application

Before submitting your proposal, learn the submission pointers fastidiously. 

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

A proposal can solely be submitted as soon as, in a single language. Proposals submitted a number of instances is not going to be thought of. Only proposals submitted by the submission kinds can be taken under consideration.

For extra info, go to Competition for Youth-Led Projects.