Below you will find a round-up of internships, job vacancies, and open calls for the month.
Accessible funding is essential to support the flow of finance towards climate solutions, and away from fossil fuels. It is fundamental in helping to build stronger, adequately resourced movements with the resources to properly campaign and organize. Currently, there is a gap between access to resources and emerging climate initiatives driven by young community activists and organisations.
That's why Roots is offering micro-grant support for projects, initiatives, research, or campaigns that advocate for climate justice through an intersectional lens; have strategies rooted in radical systemic change; and reach new, persuadable audiences.
Location: Global South
Deadline: 1st August 2024
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IUCN Leaders Forum Changemakers brings together young leaders and innovators who are designing or implementing innovative nature conservation or biodiversity action projects in their communities. Selected young changemakers will join leaders from around the world at the IUCN Leaders Forum in Geneva in October 2024 to showcase innovations for transformative change; discuss concrete actions that include nature at the nexus of energy systems, food and agriculture, and human health; and advance nature-positive solutions. Young changemakers will have an exclusive opportunity to pitch their initiatives to influential global leaders from the private sector, government and civil society.
Location: Global
Deadline: 28th May 2024
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Ashoka's 'Young African Climate Changemakers Challenge' in collaboration with the Anglo American Foundation is calling on young people aged 16 – 25 across South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Botswana to unleash their agency and innovation in tackling climate change through ideas and existing initiatives.
Location: Africa
Deadline: 30th July 2024
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The Alliance Bioversity International & CIAT is part of the Global Research Partnership for a Food Secure Future (CGIAR), which is dedicated to transforming food, land and water systems in a climate crisis. The Alliance delivers research-based solutions that address the global crises of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. The Alliance's Food Environment and Consumer Behavior team works between the farm gate and the consumers’ plate, with an emphasis on the food environment between the market and consumers.
The Integrated Expert will develop and implement adapted scaling approaches to improve the availability and utilization of neglected and underutilized species (NUS) in schools and canteens as well as in the food environment. A particular focus of the work will be on the inclusion of youth in business models and the application of gender-transformative approaches to the provision and consumption of NUS.
Location: Nairobi
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The Advocacy for Impact Unit (A4I) collaborates with Regional and Science Groups to work with, for, and through partners, to ensure research findings and evidence are used to inform decisions on national policies and regulatory systems, financial subsidies and incentives, knowledge management and dissemination systems, and international agreements and conventions. The Unit advances the creation of an enabling environment for scaling innovations, solutions, and technologies, and bringing evidence in support of the policy environment and investment decisions of private and public stakeholders at global, regional, and national scales. The Unit leads on identifying and coordinating action on global advocacy priorities, offering CGIAR’s key assets, knowledge and evidence on key issues and effort in high-level policy dialogues.
Location: Rome
Deadline: 11th June, 2024
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Funded 2-year thesis-based Master's in the Department of Environment, Agriculture, and Geography at Bishop’s University in Quebec.
Location: Quebec, Canada
Deadline: 20th June, 2024
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The WRF is looking for a coonsultant for their project titled 'Strengthening the agency of CSOs in developing policy frameworks forequitable rural development and an enhanced contribution of familyfarmers towards the achievement of the SDGs'. The project will cover 71 countries in Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, and is 48 month long.
Deadline: 17th July, 2024
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