Deadline: 30th April 2024.
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition has launched a call for proposals seeking solutions to pressing challenges for short-lived climate pollutant mitigation in the agriculture sector.
This call aims to bridge critical information, implementation, and finance gaps in the sector to create enabling environments for SLCP mitigation.
Proposed Projects
Proposed projects are required to cover one of the following focus areas:
- Focus area 1:Â Advancing implementation of sustainable intensification technologies for livestock, such as breeding, feed improvements, and herd health.
- Focus area 2:Â Shifting agriculture subsidies away from water (for rice production), fertilizer use, and livestock numbers towards climate-smart practices.
- Focus area 3:Â Using digital technology in agriculture extension services to improve awareness of climate mitigation measures in the livestock and rice sectors.
- Focus area 4:Â Piloting innovative business solutions for incorporating agricultural methane into voluntary carbon markets.
- Focus area 5:Â Piloting new models for straw management to decrease agricultural residue burning.
Funding
- Estimated project cost: up to $1,000,000
Organizational Eligibility
- The CCAC can only fund non-profit entities, which include non-governmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and government entities.
For-profit entities are not eligible to receive CCAC funding, though may participate in projects as stakeholders, collaborators, or co-funders. Applicants are encouraged to include for-profit entities in the development of the project proposal and during project implementation when their ownership of the proposed solution is key to the project’s success.  
Eligibility
To be eligible for consideration, project proposals must be:
- Complete
- Relevant
- Submitted on time
- Within the budget range set in the call for proposals
- Less than 24 months in duration
- Compliant with CCAC gender criteria
Proposals that do not meet these minimum criteria will not be evaluated.
Successful proposals will demonstrate clear alignment with the CCAC’s Sector Engagement Strategy and recommended SLCP mitigation measures for the sector, as well as:
- Demonstrate support of the targeted governments and other relevant leaders
- Have co-funding or in-kind contributions
- Provide a plan to sustain the project results after completion
- Be linked to existing priorities, efforts or needs within the targeted region, country, or state
- Have the resources available to implement the project, if and once it is approved
- Provide a reasonable estimate of the project’s SLCP mitigation potential and the resulting co-benefits for climate, air quality, and development
- Demonstrate no negative impact on vulnerable populations and biodiversity, and, if possible, generate a positive impact
Multidisciplinary collaborations, as well as the involvement of appropriate private sector stakeholders, are encouraged.