Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Competition for Youth-Led Projects 2025: (Deadline 16 March, 2025)

Applications are open for the Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Competition for Youth-Led Projects 2025. Following the success of the previous two competitions in 2022 and 2023, the Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Competition for Youth-Led Projects 2025 aims to involve young professionals in climate action efforts to promote global resilience to flood and drought.

More specifically, the objectives of the competition are:

• To enhance communities’ resilience (preparedness, response, and adaptation) to floods and drought events through youth involvement.
• To showcase the impact youth can have in supporting communities’ flood and drought resilience.
• To create opportunities for youth to implement, scale, and sustain their projects in the long term, ensuring youth is increasingly involved in climate action efforts and their initiatives receive recognition and visibility.

Grant

• The contribution provided to the selected project for the implementation of the foreseen activities is of 3,000 CHF.

Eligibility

The proposed projects must:

• Be youth-led (students/young professionals under 35) and demonstrate the active participation and engagement of youth in the proposed project activities.
• Contribute to enhancing resilience to floods and drought.
• Be innovative, and results-oriented, having clearly identified objectives, timeline, and scope.
• Be implemented within a maximum of 9 months.
• Be scalable and sustainable in time.

Projects can be submitted by individuals or youth-led organizations/teams of young professionals. Projects can be implemented anywhere. However, priority will be given to:

• Projects implemented in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDSs), particularly those benefitting the most vulnerable groups.
• Projects supporting gender-transformative approaches.
• Projects reflecting the use of Indigenous knowledge and nature-based solutions.
• Scalable and replicable projects.

Projects outside these priority areas are still eligible for selection.

Application

To submit your proposal, carefully follow the submission guidelines available here.  Note that, as indicated in the submission guidelines, you are kindly required to submit a project concept note as well as an introduction video to your project. Make sure your concept note includes all the required information (project title, objectives, timeline, contact information of project leader etc.). Incomplete applications will not be taken into account.

Click here to submit your proposal

For more information, visit Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Competition.