What is this call about ?
Environmental organisations play a central role in the fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. As they do so, they often encounter social tensions that impact their work, staff, partners and communities. Pursuing successful environmental action is especially challenging in areas where relationships between groups are strained or broken down, or where there is violence. At the same time, environmental work offers powerful entry points to foster collaboration across lines of division and contribute to social cohesion. We believe that conflict-sensitive approaches can help conservation and climate practitioners better understand and adapt to context shifts, prevent risks of fuelling tensions, and identify ways to contribute to peace through and in support of their environmental goals.
Our offer of support focuses on building institutional capacity for conflict sensitivity.
Selected applicants will receive organisational accompaniment and a small grant of up to 50,000 CHF for one phase of support.
We are committed to supporting partners over time and typically provide up to three phases of support.
Applicants need to have:
- A primary mission related to the environment, including nature conservation, biodiversity protection or climate action.
- International reach, defined as leading programmes in at least five different countries. Country offices within international organisations and networks are welcome to apply, if they explain how they intend to share learning and incentivise conflict sensitivity uptake in their larger organisational set-up.
- A footprint in conflict-affected contexts, which may consist of situations of open violence, tensions between groups, heightened polarisation or a history of armed conflict.
Follow these steps:
- Please download and complete the expression of interest form (word format) (maximum 5 pages).
- Open the online questionnaire available on the application portal and provide basic information about your organisation or network. Upload your completed application form as well as any additional supporting documents (doc, docx, ppt, or pdf).
- At the end of the form, press “Submit.” You will see a message on the screen to confirm that your submission has been sent.
The application deadline is 16 February 2026 at 23:59 CET.