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The Brazil UK-PACT has launched a new funding opportunity for climate policy and governance in Brazil.
This Call for Proposals prioritisesinitiatives that strengthen climate governance in support of Brazil’s Climate Plan. The focus is on mechanisms that enhance strategic coordination, institutional alignment, and implementation capacity across all levels of governments that climate strategies and targets are effectively put into practice.
Funding will support activities that:
- Mobilise and build the capacity of public managers and targeted stakeholders to lead climate action.
- Foster dialogue and collaboration across government levels.
- Align national climate goals with local plans, programmes, and implementation tools
- Define clear indicators and physical targets to track progress.
By strengthening governance capacity and strategic alignment, this Call for Proposals seeks to ensure that Brazil’s Climate Plan is implemented in a coherent, inclusive, and measurable way.
Please learn more about the opportunity here.
Candidate:
- Both for-profit and non-profit organizations may apply either as a sole applicant or as part of a consortium.
- Government agencies and/or departments are not eligible to apply as the lead organisation or as a consortium partner.
- All consortia must have a local organisation as the lead applicant or sole applicant. A "local organisation" is defined as an entity operating in Brazil under the National Registry of Legal Entities (Cadastro Nacional de Pessoas Jurídicas – CNPJ). In a consortium, the lead organisation is responsible for signing and managing the grant agreement with UK PACT.
- The lead implementing partner has demonstrated experience in climate policy and governance projects of at least two years.
- One of the members of the consortium must have demonstrated capacities to successfully deliver the intervention and must provide one clear reference of having successfully delivered a similar project over the last 5 years.
Project:
- Proposals must address all strategic priorities outlined in this Terms of Reference.
- Budgets must not include capital expenditures or tangible assets.
- The total project value must not exceed £1,000,000 over the full 12- month delivery period.
Application:
- Applications must be coherent and legible.
- All relevant sections must be completed using the required documents (Technical Proposal, Budget and Work Plan, Risk Register, Theory of Change, and CVs of the project team).
- Applications must be submitted in UK English.
- All applications should be submitted before the deadline, no applications will be considered after this point.
- Organisations will have time to read the Terms of Reference and submit questions until 7 November 2025.
Please note that if your organisation, project, and/or application does not meet the eligibility criteria, it will not be assessed by the selection panel.