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PD-SUVA-2022-01: My Climate Story, U.S. Embassy Suva

Closed Closed August 12, 2022 Opportunity PD-SUVA-2022-01 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$30,000
• Award floor$25,000
• Total funding$25,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

-Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations -Public and private educational institutions -Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Environmental and Scientific Partnerships and Programs awards averaged $8.4 million; this notice allows up to $30,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The U.S. Embassy Suva of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to conduct a series of virtual storytelling and filmmaking classes to multiple countries within the Pacific Island Region. These classes will enable participants to chronical the effects of climate change in their communities and enhance their ability to advocate for the security, economic health, and long-term survival of their countries while raising greater regional and global awareness of the already severe impacts of climate change in the Pacific. Please carefully follow all instructions below. Priority Region: Pacific Island Countries, to include Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Nauru. Program Objectives: Pacific Island Countries (PIC) are the most immediate victims of climate change. Larger, industrialized countries can pledge to reduce emissions and offer climate change financing, but smaller island-nations cannot meaningfully do the same. The PIC’s best tools against global warming are the thousands of stories of how this threat uproots communities and disrupts livelihoods. “My Climate Story” will offer virtual filmmaking and storytelling master classes to enable Pacific Islander youth to use their smart phone and tell how climate change affects them, adding a human element necessary to promote a sense of urgency on climate issues. Posts’ American Spaces in multiple Pacific Island countries can join other venues in hosting the virtual trainings and provide internet and computer access for editing of short films. Towards the end of the project, participants will enter their films into an Embassy-sponsored showcase to both compete for prizes and broaden awareness of rising sea levels on a larger, international platform. PIC leaders already recognize the region’s advocacy power in the fight against climate change. They are vocal participants at international climate summits, where they routinely cite climate change as an existential threat and the region’s greatest security vulnerability. “My Climate Story” expands this role to ordinary citizens, whose perspective is lost in higher level discussions, but is nonetheless essential to move global warming contributors to act. Prospective applicants must submit a draft schedule of virtual sessions involving storytelling and filmmaking curriculum, to be conducted over an eight-week period.

Category: Community Development.

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