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Capacity development

Capacity development is a core element of IKI Small Grants: In addition to financing local projects, IKI Small Grants strengthens more than 200 climate and biodiversity actors worldwide in increasin…

25 new project selected

The IKI Small Grants Programme has selected 25 climate and biodiversity projects in its third international call for proposals. Each project will receive between 60,00 and 200,000 euros of fundi…

Projects

Coral Restoration Toolkit for Community-Based Action at the East Coast of Sabah

Sabah in Malaysia is located within the Coral Triangle, a region with one of the highest densities of marine biodiversity in the world. For decades, corals are threatened by destructive fishing…

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Strengthening Youth and Women’s Actions for the Sustainable Protection of the Guma Water Catchment

The Western Area Peninsula Forest Reserve is one of Sierra Leone’s eight biodiversity hot spots and hosts about 90 per cent of Sierra Leone’s terrestrial biodiversity. It also houses the Guma Water…

Concrete walls were constructed around selected villages to reduce erosion induced by strong waves. © GIZ

Climate-Resilient Infrastructure for Sustainable Community Life in the Haor Region of Bangladesh

In Bangladesh’s flood-prone Haor region, communities face recurring flash floods that endanger lives, homes, and livelihoods. Supported by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) through the IKI…

Project beneficiaries working on a tree nursery, tending tree seedlings - Dokotala

Restoration of Chiradzulo Forest Reserve While Building Resilience of Local Communities Against Climate Change

The surroundings of the Chiradzulo Mountain Forest Reserve in the southern region of Malawi are densely populated, with more than two thirds of its population classified as poor. As a result of…

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Sustainable Charcoal Production and Cooking Stoves in Central Liberia

In Liberia, approximately 70 per cent of households do not have access to electricity and rely on fuelwood and charcoal for cooking. Particularly in rural areas, the widespread cooking practice with…

Rural Women Leading Climate Actions

Mongolia faces severe climate challenges affecting pastoral livelihoods, including desertification and frequent natural disasters. Increasing livestock numbers accelerate land degradation. In…

Chilime village where a hydropower radically changed the livestyle, still animal husbandy in those highlands is common

Linking Eco Villages and Community Water Management in Langtang Region

Nepal is lacking financial resources for wildlife conservation and addressing the needs of marginal communities residing in the edges of forests. As a result, wildlife depredates crops and decimate…

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Strengthening the Capacities of Indigenous Guaraní Communities for the Co-Management of Protected Areas in Bolivia

Bolivia’s Gran Chaco region consists of swamps, salt flats, scrublands, and the largest untouched dry forest on earth. This forest plays an important role in maintaining and regulating the water…

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Climate Resilient Community Forestry in Eastern Himalayas

In the Eastern Himalayas region of Nepal, forests are being fragmented by rapidly growing infrastructure, hydropower, and urban expansion. Further, climate change promotes the increasing coverage of…

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Empowering Waste Pickers in Ghana to Create an Alternative Urban Waste Management System

The area of Tema New Town in southern Ghana lacks organised waste collection services due to inhabitants’ inability to afford them. Consequently, waste is being dumped or burned along the coastal…

Improving the Cycling Infrastructure for a Sustainable Urban Mobility in Jinja

The IKI Small Grants Project funded Cycling out of Poverty (CooP-Africa) with the main objective of improving the cycling infrastructure and promoting sustainable urban mobility in Jinja, Uganda.…

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Promoting People-Centred, Decentralized Renewable Energy in Kenya

More than 35 per cent of Kenya’s population lack electricity, most of them living in rural areas. The situation is worse for Garissa County where electricity access is less than one per cent. This…

Nicholas Kodei is a Maasai tribesman and member of a local nomad organisation advocating for sustainable management of livestock and agriculture in and around Mukogodo Forest © IMPACT

Grassroot Communities Taking Action for Resilient Ecosystems in the Mukogodo Forest

With support from IKI Small Grants, local organisation IMPACT successfully strengthened climate resilience in four community lands surrounding Kenya’s Mukogodo Forest in Laikipa County –…

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Powered by the Sun: Climate-Smart Irrigation System in Kajiado County

Kenya’s agriculture sector is 98 per cent rain-fed and therefore highly vulnerable to climate change. Most farmers have opted for irrigation but rely primarily on furrow or basin irrigation, which…

Supporting Climate-Smart Communities in the Cubango-Okavango River Basin

The IKI Small Grants project supports the Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission (OKACOM) in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola to implement a call for proposals in the mentioned countries that…

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Mexican Youth and Female Leaders for Integrated Landscape Management

The two natural protected areas, Selva El Ocote and Pantanos de Centla biosphere reserves, located in Southern Mexico, are threatened by several effects of climate change. As a result, climate and…

Empowering Female Fish Workers for Participatory Coastal Management in Tanzania

The coastal zones of Tanga and Coast Regions in Tanzania are characterised by mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, and coral reefs. Intensified migration to coastal areas and illegal and destructive…

Reviving agricultural livelihood opportunities through climate-smart farming practices

The project addresses diminishing agricultural livelihood opportunities, a challenge which has escalated in recent years mainly due to effects of climate change and human-wildlife conflict,…

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