Deadline: 11 August 2024
Applications are now open for the GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards 2024 . The GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards highlight and reward innovative, exemplary, inspiring and scalable locally-led efforts that address the impacts of climate change and build effective climate resilience among the most vulnerable communities, sectors of society and individuals who are on the frontline of the greatest existential threat facing humanity.
This year, the Awards will feature four new thematic categories: Water Security, Food Security, Urban Adaptation Solutions and Local Entrepreneurship.
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Categories
Below are the award categories:
- Water Security: This category recognises local and community initiatives that address water-related challenges and improve local adaptive capacity through efficient water drainage, channelling, use or conservation. Solutions must be locally designed, accessible and adapted to the needs of the most vulnerable groups in the community, ensuring equitable management of water resources for all. They invite applications from women-led groups, non-governmental organisations (local, national and international), universities, research institutes, think tanks, governments and entrepreneurship support organisations.
- Food safety: This category recognises local community-led initiatives that support the design, integration and adoption of climate-smart food production systems designed by and for small-scale producers and vulnerable communities along the supply chain. Initiatives in this category must demonstrate how they contribute to ensuring continuous, equitable and sustainable access to diverse and nutritious food for poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. They invite applications from women-led groups, non-governmental organisations (local, national and international), universities, research institutes, think tanks, governments and entrepreneurship support organisations.
- Urban Adaptation Solutions: This category recognises locally-led initiatives to adapt to climate change in urban areas. Successful initiatives involve and benefit vulnerable urban neighbourhoods, community leaders and city governments through collaborative design, integration into city adaptation plans and a long-term vision to continuously increase adaptive capacity over time. They invite applications from women-led groups, non-governmental organisations (local, national and international), universities, research institutes, think tanks, governments and entrepreneurship support organisations.
- Local Entrepreneurship: This category recognises local community-based businesses that:
- They have developed or adopted adaptation solutions or technologies that address local climate-related vulnerabilities and are locally accessible to the people or groups most vulnerable to climate change;
- Supported local communities and governments in adaptation efforts; or
- It has helped to address the structural inequalities faced by women, young people, children, people with disabilities, displaced people, indigenous peoples and marginalised ethnic groups that make them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Benefits
- 20 nominees will benefit from publicity surrounding their nomination for the Awards.
- Four winners will receive a cash prize of €15,000 and will be invited to an award ceremony at COP29 in Baku, which will take place from 11 to 22 November 2024. The winners will be required to provide a proposal on how they intend to use the prize money and report on their progress up to one year after the prize has been disbursed.
Eligibility
Open to any organisation or group of partners around the world that are in the process of implementing climate change adaptation/resilience solutions that follow one of the eight Locally Led Adaptation Principles.
Only entries that fulfil all five of the following criteria will be considered for the 2024 competition:
- The intervention is being implemented and the results are demonstrable.
- The intervention addresses adaptation to the impact of climate change or builds resilience against climate impacts.
- The intervention targets the most vulnerable communities, sectors of society and individuals suffering from climate impacts.
- The intervention is locally led, adhering to one or more Locally Led Adaptation Principles.
Selection criteria
The applications will be ranked according to a points-based system that takes into account:
- Innovation
- Adherence to the Principles of Locally Led Adaptation
- Community leadership in decision-making
- Leadership of the most vulnerable sectors of society, including women
- Scalability and replicability
- Devolution of decision-making on the use of funds
- Collaboration and partnerships
- Relevance of the use of prize money
Application
The application form contains a series of questions and spaces for uploading files. Make sure you answer all the questions and provide them:
- A written description of the intervention or solution in story format.
- A short, simple video: interviews, presentation of the intervention, filming of the solution (2 minutes maximum). They're not looking for sophisticated, high-quality videos.
- Photos, infographics or other visual material to support your story.
