Climate justice is a global challenge, that requires active participation from the whole society.
The “Indigenous Peoples Fighting for Climate Justice” call for proposal is the second call for proposal in Raízes, a line by the Brazil Human Rights Fund that supports fights for climate justice and socioenvironmental rights throughout the country, recognizing indigenous peoples, traditional communities and their ways of life as central to the preservation of biodiversity, waterscapes, forests and natural resources in all biomes, in search of a more sustainable and just future.
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INTRODUCTION
The Brazil Human Rights Fund invites groups, communities and indigenous organizations that act in the defense and promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples in Brazil to present proposals in the context of the Indigenous Peoples Fighting for Climate Justice call.
The general objective of this call for proposal is to strengthen indigenous peoples and their ways of life in Amazon and outside it, acknowledging the importance and protagonism of aboriginal peoples and their traditional knowledges for the facing of the global climate crisis and promotion of nature-based solutions. At least 15 proposals will be supported, for a maximum period of 12 months, geared towards territorial management and monitoring, coordination and advocacy for the safekeeping of rights.
Beyond that, this call for proposal intends to strengthen specifically the activities of indigenous peoples and communities in the field of sociobioeconomics, valuing ways of production based in traditional knowledges, that connect nature and peoples, and find their own solutions to the climate challenges. In this case, the Brazil Human Rights Fund will count on a partnership with the Instituto Itaúsa to fund at least 10 more projects, with a duration of up to 12 months.
In total there will be at least 25 funded projects, totaling R$ 1.500.000,00 (BRL)in grants within three distinct axes, detailed further in this call for proposal. Proposals throughout the country will be funded, being that at least 12 necessarily must be in the Amazon or Cerrado (central Brazilian biome). Proposals can be sent starting from March 13th 2024, until 23:59 (BRT) of May 7th 2024.
CONTEXT
In recent years, the world has witnessed a series of events that highlight the challenges faced by the current generation with regards to the climate emergency. Extreme climate events, such as floods, prolonged droughts, intense storms and heatwaves, grow and become increasingly more frequent. This directly affects the lives of people, including risks to food security and health matters.
Indigenous peoples, in turn, act resiliently, with immense capacity to adapt all over. Despite the debate about climate change being relatively recent, those peoples have shown, throughout the centuries, that it’s possible to benefit from the natural resources and inhabit their territories preserving biodiversity, without affecting ecosystemic services and contributing to the climate balance, in profound respect and connection to nature.
Public actors, private actors, researchers and the organized civil society have collaborated in the definition of strategies to deal with the case of emergency, generating data that, among other things, leads to an incontestable conclusion: it is not possible to broach climate justice without considering the centrality of indigenous peoples in the containment of climate change and in the mitigation of its effects, as well as the impact of said effects over their populations.
In this sense, the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change (IPCC) has diagnosed that the path toward mitigation and adaptation, the guarantee to reduction of emissions and construction of a sustainable future go through the cooperation and the taking of decisions inclusive of the indigenous peoples, beyond the acknowledgement of the inherent rights of aboriginal peoples, such as the right to their territories.
In Brazil, their sustainable practices based in traditional and ancestral knowledges promote the effective management of natural goods, keeping the forest standing in the Amazon and outside it, developing techniques of adaptation and their own solutions in the various ecosystems.
However, indigenous peoples face today in the country not only many hindrances to the safekeeping of their rights, but also the lack of recognition of their knowledges and contributions to the protection of the different biomes. Countless challenges remain for indigenous peoples, including threats to the original rights over the lands they traditionally occupy, invasions and illegal exploitation of the natural resources in their territories, persecution and attacks on leaders.
In this context, it is fundamental to strengthen indigenous peoples in their struggle for rights, just as it is more and more urgent to support new economies and sustainable ways of production based in ancestral knowledges and practices, that value and protect the climate, nature and all people.
PROPOSALS THIS CALL SEEKS TO SUPPORT
The Indigenous Peoples Fighting for Climate Justice Call for Proposal will support indigenous groups, communities and organizations in three different axes.
AXIS 1 – Productive alternatives and sociobioeconomics, in partnership with the Instituto Itaúsa.
At least 10 proposals of up to R$ 50.000,00 (fifty thousand reais, around 10,000 USD) will be funded, for a period of up to 12 months.
Axis geared towards the development of nature-based solutions, such as sustainable soil management practices and sociobioeconomics, that contribute to the protection and permanence of the indigenous community in their territory, as well as the preservation of biodiversity.
AXIS 2 – Territorial monitoring and management
At least 10 proposals of up to R$ 50.000,00 (fifty thousand reais, around 10,000 USD) will be funded, for a period of up to 12 months.
Funding to activities that directly contribute to the protection, management and monitoring of indigenous territories and safekeeping of exclusive and sustainable usufruct of their natural resources.
AXIS 3 – Coordination and advocacy
At least 5 proposals of up to R$ 100.000,00 (one hundred thousand reais, around 20,000 USD) will be funded, for a period of up to 12 months.
This axis will fund projects of coordination and political advocacy whose objective it is to strengthen the defense of rights for indigenous peoples, considering the centrality of indigenous peoples in the debates and solutions to climate change and the importance of their voices being heard in decision-taking spaces. We will support actions of political advocacy in local spheres (ex: City Councils and Prefectures), regional spheres (ex: Legislative Assemblies and State Governments), national spheres (ex: The National Congress and Executive Power) and international spheres (ex: G20 summits and the United Nations Climate Change Conference–COP); construction of alliances and coordination within the indigenous movement, but also with other human rights organizations and social movements; trainings on the raised themes; other activities of coordination and advocacy that strengthen the importance of the defense of rights for indigenous peoples to the climate matters.
ATENTION: The criteria for framing in each of the axes will be the nature of the proposed activities. Therefore, attentive reading of the call for proposal and what can be funded in Axes 1, 2 and 3 is very important. Should a registered project meet the general requirements of the call, but their activities not fit into the scope of the Axis indicated by the organization, it is possible that it’s still considered for funding, with the readjustment of actions and budget, as suggested by the Selection Committee.
CONDITIONS TO APPLY
May apply to Axes 1 and 2 proposals from non-profit communities, groups and organizations, even if not yet formalized and/or without a CNPJ (Brazilian document for legal entities). However, for Axis 3, only proposals from organizations already legally constituted will be considered, according to Brazilian legislation. Each organization, group or collective may present only one project, in only one of the Axes. Should a same organization, group or collective send more than one project, ONLY the last one registered will be considered. In Axes 1 and 2, projects from communities, groups and organizations with little to no access to other sources of resources will have priority funding.
It is allowed to present concomitant proposals to other calls by the Brazil Human Rights Fund.
We will not accept projects presented by governmental organizations, universities, international organizations, political parties, small or medium sized enterprises, microenterprises and individual microentrepreneurs.
IMPORTANT DIMENSIONS FOR PROJECT SELECTION
– We value operations based on the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, including in an intersectional manner, considering the way by which climate change affects disproportionately marginalized and vulnerable groups, and that the overlapping of different types of discrimination can worsen that impact.
– Adequacy to the call for proposal theme, that is, defense of the rights of indigenous peoples and the fight for climate justice;
– Focus in the defense of rights;
– Existence of links between the proposing organization and the groups and/or communities affected by the problem that is intended to be faced;
– Network coordination and multiplying effect;
– Adequacy of the budget to the proposed activities;
– Innovative and non-conventional proposals of action;
– Regional diversity;
– We will prioritize, additionally, projects developed in territories more directly affected by extreme climate events, fires, invasions and contexts of conflict;
– We will not support initiatives exclusively geared towards professional or educational training, cultural production, assistance support, academic research.
HOW TO SEND YOUR PROJECT?
You can send your proposal through The Project Portal, E-mail or WhatsApp.
IMPORTANT: We recommend sending your proposal through the Project Portal. The Portal is the main mode of registration for the Brazil Human Rights Fund’s calls for proposal – and, in most cases, the only mode. Therefore, with an active registration, it will be much simpler and easier for your group, community or organization to register to other calls in the future. Registrations via E-mail or WhatsApp must be realized exceptionally, in cases of limited access to the Internet.
Registrations through the Project Portal: before beginning to fill in the form in the Project Portal, make a draft using the registration form in this link. Registration must be done at once, since the portal doesn’t allow saving parts of the form to complete it later. That will allow you to know the contents of the form before starting the process.
To register in the Project Portal, follow the instructions below, depending on your situation:
– If you have already sent projects, access the portal in this link, insert your username and password. Should you not remember your password, click “Forgot the password” and follow the instructions to create a new password. Access through here the step by step.
– If you are registering for the first time, access the portal in this link, click “First Access” and fill in the information for your group.. Access through here the step by step.
Registrations through E-mail:
– Download the registration form in this link, fill it in and send it in Word-compatible (.doc ou .docx) or PDF format to the [email protected] email address. You will receive confirmation of the registration in the sender e-mail in up to 2 work days.
Registrations through WhatsApp:
– Download the registration form in this link, fill it in and send it in Word-compatible (.doc ou .docx) or PDF format to the (11) 91666-7089 number. You will receive confirmation of the registration in up to 2 work days through WhatsApp itself.
In case of registrations through E-mail and WhatsApp, remember to answer all the obligatory questions in the form, because the lack of answers may result in the exclusion from the selection process. There are only 17 questions, beyond the information regarding the proponent. Do not include tables or images in the responses and don’t send additional documents – other documents eventually forwarded will be disregarded.
Send your project through only one mode (Portal, E-mail or WhatsApp). Sending through more than one mode creates duplicity and may harm the confirmation of your registration.
Don’t leave it for the last moment: create/update your password or register your organization, group or collective now and send your project the earliest possible. Remember we will not accept proposals sent after 23h59 of May 7th 2024 (BRT).
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PROJECT AFTER IT IS SENT TO THE BRAZIL HUMAN RIGHTS FUND?
The Brazil Human Rights Fund’s team does an initial analysis of the total of received projects and, afterwards, the projects are forwarded to a Selection Committee composed of independent specialists, with no connection to the Foundation. The Committee will meet to indicate which projects will be funded, leaving the final decision to the governance of the Brazil Human Rights Fund.
DISCLOSURE OF THE RESULTS
The result of the selection process will be informed through the Brazil Human Rights Fund’s website and social media starting from 26/07/2024.
SHOULD THERE BE QUESTIONS
Questions about the Call for Proposal will be answered through e-mail, please write to [email protected]. Questions about the registration mechanisms will be answered through the [email protected] email.
Attention: before sending the e-mail, we suggest attentively reading the entire call for proposal with the contained orientations and the “Frequently Asked Questions” section (in the + sign at the grey bar atop this page in the call for proposal, right below the title).
You may also download the call for proposal PDF, with all the information and links to the registration, clicking here.
