Call summary :

The BCRIP project will fund Indigenous-led Nature-Based Solutions Partnership Projects in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Guatemala. These projects will be co-designed and co-implemented in partnership with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Partnership projects will also include knowledge sharing, relationship building, and joint advocacy opportunities. Projects should also focus on several cross-cutting themes, such as Indigenous-led climate action, self-determination, rights, knowledge systems/science and gender equality.

Interested First Nations in BC and Indigenous communities and/or organizations in the four Latin American countries will be required to collaborate on the creation and submission of a proposal. Please fill out this Google Form or reach out if you want to build new partnerships or leverage existing partnerships with Indigenous Peoples in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Guatemala.

Proposals for Partnerships Projects will be due on April 20th, 2025, at 8:59 pm PST, and the projects are anticipated to start between July and August 2025.

Approved applicants will implement the partnership projects within a maximum of two years. Proposals will be due in April, and projects are anticipated to start in July-August 2025.

Climate Adaptation and Nature-based Solutions

The project proposal should focus on Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), with Nature Based Solutions (NbS) playing a fundamental role in advancing CCA efforts in the South. The project proposal must also consider how to enhance local biodiversity.
Please see Appendix A for how Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can be defined within the scope of this project, and for some examples (non-exhaustive).

Indigenous Rights, Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building

The project proposal must uphold BCRIP’s fundamental parameters of Indigenous self-determination and individual and collective rights, Indigenous leadership, and collaboration. The project proposal must be locally driven and foster capacity strengthening and knowledge sharing within and between Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Latin America by honouring, upholding and revitalizing Indigenous rights, governance and knowledge systems.

Gender Equality

The project proposal should advance BCRIP’s crosscutting theme of enhancing gender equality by protecting and advancing the individual and collective rights of Indigenous women, youth and 2SLGBTQQIA+2 peoples. This includes ensuring their active and meaningful participation in decision-making around climate action and adaptation, as well as their access to and control over land, water and their traditional territories to secure climate resilience and achieve economic and social equality.

Partnership Projects

The BCRIP project aims to build climate resilience and support Indigenous-led climate action through Partnership Projects (PPs) that focus on the implementation of self-determined, Indigenous-led NbS in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Guatemala. The project also promotes joint advocacy, strengthened climate governance, and knowledge sharing with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
Partnership Projects will be co-designed and implemented by Indigenous Nations, Organizations and/or Communities in Canada, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Guatemala. Nature-based Solutions projects will be implemented in the South with partnership activities with the North; whereas relationship building, joint advocacy, and knowledge sharing activities with the South will comprise projects in the North. This is a learning process, and we do not expect applicants to have long-term established partnerships when applying; the proposal can be the budding of a partnership.
More specifically, the co-design aspect will include mechanisms, tools, moments, events, and processes for knowledge exchange, relationship-building, and joint action based on each Indigenous partner’s self-determined needs, priorities and realities. The co-design and co-implementation aspect of this project will entail reciprocity, relationship building, and collaboration as defined by the applicants.

AVAILABLE FUNDING

Indigenous co-applicants in Canada will be able to apply for up to $207,000 per project over 12-24 months; whereas the co-applicants from Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru will be able to apply for either of: CAD 100,000-122,000 (small grant) CAD 300,000-390,000 (medium grant), CAD 600,000-633,000 (large grant).