Deadline: 18th August, 2023
The Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), convened by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is a movement of food, agriculture, and consciousness practitioners united around a common goal: to support people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and
regeneration.
The vision of the Alliance is anchored in the realisation that we have the science, technical
capacity and technological tools needed to transform food systems; however, these solutions are not delivering the impact needed. To understand why, we must examine our collective blind spots and look beyond the problems’ symptoms, patterns and structures, at what fundamentally drives the systems. Consciousness and mental models are increasingly
recognized as the key to unlock systems change.
Objectives
- The cultivation of inner capacities for regenerative food systems constitutes a new field of practice which requires testing and innovation to identify, develop and nurture potentially transformative solutions.
- The Conscious Food Incubator creates a space for collective experimentation and learning, through prototyping and testing different approaches for cultivating inner capacities of stakeholder across food systems, which can inspire scaling up of successful experiences. The learnings and solutions generated through the Conscious Food Incubator are intended to support people in cultivating and applying these capacities and approaches, while also embedding them in UNDP’s own ways of working, to maximise development impact towards the SDGs.
- The objectives of the Conscious Food Incubator are the following:
- To test and demonstrate how consciousness approaches can strengthen inner capacities that in turn help accelerate the transformation of food systems to make them more regenerative, sustainable and equitable.
- To generate a set of learnings and learning resources – in the form of case studies, training materials, trainers and partners – which can be used to scale-up the integration of consciousness-based practices and strengthening of inner capacities for food systems transformation.
Benefits
Through this first round of call for proposals for the Conscious Food Incubator, UNDP will fund approximately four pilot interventions of up to US $20,000.
What do grantees get?
• Receive an grant of up to US $20,000 to implement their conscious food intervention;
• Technical support from CoFSA Secretariat to refine your intervention strategy,
facilitate implementation (e.g. connections with relevant CoFSA partners) and support
the capitalization of lessons learnt leveraging the CoFSA MEL framework;
• UNDP CoFSA will promote the selected Conscious Food intervention to a broader
audience across its network.
Eligibility
- Eligible Entity:
- Civil society and (national or international) non-governmental organizations, including non-governmental academic or educational institutions.
- Private sector and commercial entities, and governmental organizations (e.g. regional governments, municipalities, etc.) are not eligible.
- Individuals are not eligible.
- Partnerships between eligible organisations or institutions are permitted, but a lead applicant is required. All partners must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant.
- CoFSA Interventions criteria: the proposed intervention must meet the CoFSA Interventions criteria.
- CoFSA Principles: the proposed intervention must generally align with CoFSA Principles for Cultivating Inner Capacities.
- Application Form and Award Amount: The Applicant must apply for an Award of up to $20,000 and submit a duly completed application form.
- Applicants cannot be on the UNDP Vendor Ineligibility List.
How to Apply
Once completed, submit your Application Form (here) and all supporting documents via
email to [email protected]. Please include “Conscious Food Incubator submission” and the
name of the Applicant in the Subject line. Attachments should be no bigger than 10MB.
For more information and application.