Trust Fund Call for Proposals: 10 YFP Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme

Last date : September 11, 2015

 

The Secretariat of the 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP) invites NGOs from developing countries and countries with economies in transition to present proposals to the following call for proposals.

The mission of the Sustainable Lifestyles and Education (SLE) programme is to foster the uptake of sustainable lifestyles as the common norm, with the objective of ensuring their positive contribution to addressing global challenges, such as resource efficiency and biodiversity conservation, climate changemitigation and adaptation, poverty eradication and social well-being.

The primary objective pursued in this call for proposal is to “identify innovative ideas that help accelerate the transition toward sustainable and low carbon lifestyles by scaling up existing approaches and mainstreaming sustainable lifestyles”.

Types of projects supported through the call:

• Implementation of projects to replicate and/or scale-up promising practices (innovative and/or traditional practices) and solutions for sustainable and low carbon lifestyles, based on bottom-up and participatory approaches, and tracking and measuring associated benefits;
• Implementation of projects, especially at the local or community level, aiming at triggering or enabling policy, business strategies and behavioral change with high impact potential (mobility, food, housing, ITCs, waste management, tourism);
• Scaling up of existing, high-impact initiatives driven by education institutions, including higher education institutions, and teachers for the mainstreaming of Sustainable Lifestyles principles into their daily management as well as in their programmes, with the active participation of students.
• Appliicants are also encouraged to demonstrate the links to the commitments and activities under the UNESCO GAP;
• Supporting the scaling up of youth networks and engaging policy makers in building and maintaining an interactive dialogue with youth and youth organizations on Sustainable Lifestyles and Education;
• Encourage the dissemination and active engagement, at scale, of youth in developing solutions and visions for
• Sustainable Lifestyles through outreach tools and activities.

For more details : http://www.scpclearinghouse.org/d/the-clearinghouse/100-10yfp-trust-fund-call-for-proposals-sustainable-lifestyles-and-education.html

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