IUCN Invites Application for Resilient Inclusive and Sustainable Environments RISE grants challenge 2025, The RISE grants challenge seeks applications that adapt strategies to prevent, mitigate and respond to the risk of gender-based violence and environmental linkages in the context of the dual global biodiversity and climate crises. This year, RISE will accept applications addressing gender-based violence across biodiversity and climate contexts, challenges and sectors, with a specific earmark for at least several projects to address gender-based violence in the fisheries sector.
Applicants are encouraged to carefully review the full details and submit their applications before the specified deadline to seize this grant opportunity.
Last Date of Submission: 8th September 2025
Funding Information
(IUCN Invites Application for Resilient Inclusive and Sustainable Environments RISE grants challenge 2025)
Grant amount: USD 100,000 – 300,000
About
(IUCN Invites Application for Resilient Inclusive and Sustainable Environments RISE grants challenge 2025)
The Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environments (RISE) grants challenge is a first-of-its-kind granting mechanism that supports activities designed to address gender-based violence and environmental linkages in environmental and climate-related programmes and generate evidence on promising interventions.
The RISE grants challenge is led by IUCN with support from Norway, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, and is a direct response to a landmark study on gender-based violence and environment linkages by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), commissioned by USAID through the Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT) partnership. With input from IUCN and diverse partners and peers, this first-of-its-kind grants mechanism was designed to fill knowledge, cooperation and investment gaps at the gender-based violence and environment nexus. In complement, IUCN launched the Gender-based Violence and Environment Linkages Center (GBV-ENV Center), which brings together resources and tools, mobilises learning, provides tailored technical support and forges collective action to build knowledge, capacities and improved policies. Since 2022, the RISE grants challenge has been managed and hosted by the IUCN, in conjunction with the GBV-ENV Center. In 2024, Norway joined the RISE grants challenge.
The 2025 RISE Call for Proposals is the sixth RISE grants challenge open call. A new cohort of RISE grantees will join the five previous cohorts, growing a community of practice and contributing to critical knowledge and strategies toward meeting interlinked global goals of eradicating gender-based violence and securing a healthy and peaceful planet.
Objective
(IUCN Invites Application for Resilient Inclusive and Sustainable Environments RISE grants challenge 2025)
The overarching purpose of the RISE grants challenge is to fund projects that address gender-based violence that is occurring within and linked to environment and climate-related sectors.
Scope
(IUCN Invites Application for Resilient Inclusive and Sustainable Environments RISE grants challenge 2025)
In 2025, the RISE grants challenge seeks to fund applications that embed gender-based violence risk mitigation in environmental projects working with or led by communities within and/or around marine and/or terrestrial Indigenous-managed lands, protected areas, and lands conserved using other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs).
While gender-based violence prevention and response measures can be included as complementary activities, the RISE grants challenge in 2025 seeks to fund applications that focus on gender-based violence risk mitigation.
The RISE grants challenge encourages applications to also deliver improved rights-based, gender-responsive, socially inclusive conservation, climate action and sustainable development outcomes. In 2025, we continue to be interested in intersectional approaches that include or emphasise vulnerable groups such as Indigenous women, environmental defenders, youth, LGBTQIA+ individuals and women and girls who are underrepresented and marginalised in their communities, among others.
Eligible applicants
(IUCN Invites Application for Resilient Inclusive and Sustainable Environments RISE grants challenge 2025)
The RISE grants challenge is open to legally registered local, national, regional, or international organisations, including:
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs);
Grassroots, local and community-based organisations (CBOs), including women, and youth-led organisations;
Civil society organisations (CSOs);
Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations (IPOs);
Women-owned/women-led enterprises;
Faith-based organisations (FBOs);
International non-governmental organisations (INGOs);
Intergovernmental organisations (IGOs);
Universities and other academic institutions that are NOT publicly funded;
Research institutes and think tanks;
Private sector companies (international, regional, national, local) (for-profit organisations must clearly demonstrate that the proposed project pursues strictly non-profit objectives and does not generate any income);
Consortiums, partnerships and other already existing forms of collaboration;
Organisations that are members of IUCN and/or others with track record improving environment outcomes; and
Organisations that have previously applied for and/or received RISE funding (these applicants must specifically articulate how another grant builds on the learnings and results of the first).
Eligible Countries
(IUCN Invites Application for Resilient Inclusive and Sustainable Environments RISE grants challenge 2025)
The RISE grants challenge will only accept applications proposing implementation in one of the eligible countries. Within that country, applicants are strongly encouraged to focus on no more than two or three sub-counties, or equivalent local administrative areas.
Brazil
Cambodia
Colombia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana
Guatemala
Indonesia
Kenya
Mexico
Mozambique
Nepal
Peru
Philippines
Republic of Congo
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Thailand
United Republic of Tanzania
Vietnam
Zambia
How to apply?
Kick Start Your RISE grants challenge Call for Proposals 2025 Application <<<Apply Here>>>
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