Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) 2023 Champions Award, UAE

GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards are open to Reward inspiring, innovative and scalable locally led efforts to address climate change and build resilience among vulnerable communities.

2023 AWARD CATEGORIES

CAPACITY BUILDING:

• This category includes innovations and initiatives that support a continuous and iterative process of learning for local communities, governments, and organizations. These innovations and initiatives should be based on established need from the participants and enable inclusive local decision-making that is sustained beyond project cycles, for instance by leaving an institutional legacy; facilitating skills for technical and soft institutional attributes (like collaborative leadership, trust, and network governance); and/or allowing local actors to autonomously increase their capacity and share skills over time. ?Examples include institutionalizing adaptation capacity in local organizations; support for peer-to-peer learning; and support for local experts and champions.

BUSINESS ADAPTATION SOLUTIONS:

• This category is for small and large businesses that have supported leadership by local communities and governments in adaptation efforts; helped address structural inequalities faced by women, youth, children, disabled, displaced, indigenous peoples and marginalized ethnic groups that make them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change; and/or developed and made easily available adaptation solutions or technologies that address local climate-related vulnerabilities.

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP:

• This category is for local, national, or global woman leaders who design, champion, and/or lead adaptation and climate resilience efforts in and for local communities.  Applications are invited from, or on behalf of, women leaders at the local, national, or global level who have led in the design or implementation of efforts that demonstrably build climate resilience – particularly of the most vulnerable – within communities.

INNOVATION IN DEVOLVING FINANCE:

• This category is for organizations, projects, initiatives or programs using innovative models that provide flexible, long-term, patient and/or predictable funding for adaptation at the local level. The funding should be made available in ways that enable and support local determination of climate challenges, priorities, and solutions.

• Table of Content
• About Global Center on Adaptation (GCA)
• GCA Champions Award
• Aim and Benefits of GCA Champions Award
• Requirements for GCA Champions Award Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for GCA Champions Award
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Global Center on Adaptation (GCA)

The Global Center on Adaptation advances bold actions that help societies across the world become more resilient to climate-related threats. They act as a solutions broker, bringing together governments, the private sector, civil society, intergovernmental bodies, and knowledge institutions that can address the obstacles slowing down adaptation action. The Center builds on, improves, and accelerates breakthrough solutions that catalyze transformation at scale and at speed... read more... continue reading

GCA Champions Award

Application Deadline	31 Aug 2023
Country to study	United Arab Emirates
Type	Contest
Sponsor	Global Center on Adaptation (GCA)
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of GCA Champions Award

20 nominees will benefit from publicity around their nomination for the Awards.

Four winners will receive a cash prize of €15,000 and be invited to an Award Ceremony at COP28 in Dubai, which will take place from 30 November to 12 December 2023.

Winners will be required to provide a spending proposal of how they intend to use the cash prize and to report on their progress up to one year after the disbursement of the prize. DAI Global will support the monitoring of the activities listed in the spending proposal, through video calls, digital surveys, and requests for photos and video materials.

Requirements for GCA Champions Award Qualification

The Awards are open to any individual, organization, or group of partners worldwide, who have implemented or are in the process of implementing climate change adaptation/resilience interventions.

Interview date, Process and Venue for GCA Champions Award

Applications will be ranked according to a points-based system based on five main criteria:

• Effectiveness and community impact.

• Scalability and achieved (or potential for) replication.

• Devolution of decision-making, particularly by the most vulnerable.

• Gender and social inclusion.

• Expected use of Award money.

The first top 20 shortlisted applicants (5 from each category) will be nominated for the Awards and requested to provide additional information to support their entry.

Thereafter, a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) will review the shortlisted candidates in their respective categories. The TAG will select two candidates per category, and a High-level Jury will make the final selection of winners.

 

 

Application Deadline

August 31, 2023

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) on form.collect.dai.com to apply

APPLY FOR THE LOCAL ADAPTATION CHAMPIONS AWARDS!

The Local Adaptation Champions Awards spotlight and reward innovative, inspiring, and scalable locally led efforts to address climate change and build resilience among vulnerable communities.

Now open for applications.

APPLY NOW!

The call for applications will be open from 1-31 August 2023.

For more details visit: GCA website.