GHETTO GO GREEN MICRO-GRANTS
Call for Applications 2025
Network for Active Citizens (NAC) is pleased to launch its first Ghetto Go Green Micro-Grants to support youth-led or focused organizations in Nakawa and Kawempe Divisions of Kampala to pilot, replicate, and scale climate adaptation solutions to enhance the adaptive capacity and resilience of Kampala’s vulnerable ghetto communities to flooding and heat waves. 
About the Micro-Grants 
NAC welcomes applications from youth-led or focused organizations operating in the Nakawa and Kawempe Divisions. The Micro-Grants will support at least 8 community-based adaptation initiatives (climate adaptation solutions) from January to April 2025, offering funding up to UGX 3,500,000 per solution. The solution MUST be completed within four (4) months.  
Requirements 
(a)    Applicants MUST submit their proposals using the Application Form and Implementation Plan and Budget templates provided by 31st January 2025, at 11:59 pm EAT. 
(b)    The Ghetto Go Green Micro-Grants Review Committee will not review applications submitted after the deadline. All applicants must submit their applications in English. 
(c)    All applicants are required to submit their registration documents along with the application form.  
Eligibility, Evaluation, and Selection 
Before submitting your application, please read the micro-grant guidelines for more details.
Timelines
(a)    NAC will host an information session to answer interested applicants’ questions on Tuesday 21st   January 2025, at 9:00 am to 1:00pm EAT at the Youth CSO Villa in Kawempe division.
(b)    Selected climate adaptation solutions for the award of the Micro-Grants as well as rejected solutions will receive notification by 5th Feb 2025. 
Contact Information
For further inquiries, please contact: 
The Ghetto Go Green Team via 
gggmicrogrants@gmail.com or activecitizenuganda@gmail.com,babijajuliet@gmail.com 

Guidelines for Ghetto Go Green Micro-Grants

1. Introduction

Kampala faces increasing frequency and severity of extreme climatic events especially floods and high temperatures. The effects of climate change disproportionately and severely impact the impoverished ghetto communities where the poor city dwellers live, the majority of whom are young people who lack or have limited climate adaptive capacity. Subsequently, the poor residents in the ghetto communities are trapped in a cycle of vulnerability to climate shocks due to the continued loss of assets and disruption of income-generating activities.  

With the impacts of climate change increasingly felt and young people are uniquely vulnerable, their role in designing and implementing solutions to enhance the adaptive capacity and resilience to flooding and heatwaves is inevitable.

The Ghetto Go Green Micro grants will provide catalytic funding to youth-led solutions that are inclusive, innovative, and sustainable to enhance the adaptive capacity and resilience to flooding and heat waves in Kampala’s vulnerable ghetto communities.

The micro-grants will help young people to develop, deploy, grow, and replicate context-specific climate adaptation solutions targeting the highly vulnerable groups in ghetto communities of Kampala.

2. Geographical Coverage

The Ghetto Go Green Micro-grants will only accept applications from youth-led organizations operating in the Nakawa and Kawempe Divisions of Kampala.  

3. Eligibility for Applicants

Applicants should fulfill the following criteria to be considered for the Micro-Grant:

1. Be a youth-led or youth focused organization, with a majority of leadership positions held by young people aged between the ages of 18 and 30.
2. Seeking micro-grant for either a new or supporting existing community-based initiative.
3. Youth-led or youth focused organizations recognizably working in the Nakawa and Kawempe Divisions of Kampala.  (proof of previous projects and credible referees should be attached in case the organization is not registered)
4. Demonstrate commitment to advancing climate action and building resilience among young people.  

4. Eligibility for Solutions

All submitted climate adaptation solutions must fulfill each of the following criteria to be deemed eligible for support:

1. The solution should be developed with involvement of the young people from the targeted communities and implemented by a youth-led organization.
2. The solution should target the wider community to contribute to improving the adaptive capacity and resilience to flooding and heat waves.  
3. The solution should be implemented and completed within six months’ period.
4. Solution MUST be implemented in one or more of the ghetto communities of Kinawataka, Kunya, Kirombe, Kyebando, Kanyanya, Kamwanyi, Kitintale, and Kisowera.  
5. The solution must have a potential for sustainability after the implementation period.
6. The request for support towards the solution must cost not more than UGX 3,500,000 to be piloted, replicated, or scaled.  
7. Demonstration on how the solutions link to existing GGG/CCAM activities and facilities will be an added value to the proposal.

5. Application Process

1. Interested youth-led or youth focused organizations may apply from the date of the call for application opens until the set deadline.
2. The following application documents will be submitted via gggmicrogrants@gmail.com:

1. A filled application form, implementation plan, and budget as provided by Network for Active Citizens.  
2. Registration documents/ project reports and list of credible referees if not registered

6. Selection Criteria

The Ghetto Go Green Micro-Grant Review Committee will review all applications for the award of the micro-grants based on:

1. Relevance (20%).

1. The solution demonstrates a strong understanding of the target community's needs and local context.
2. The community-based initiative (solution) aligns with the Ghetto Go Green Project’s goal to improve the young people’s resilience to climate change effects in Kampala’s climate-vulnerable urban areas.
3. The solution shows commitment to building positive and long-term collaborative relationships between young people and their communities.   

b. Impact (30%)

1. The initiative demonstrates a clear potential to create impact on the target communities.

c. Innovation (10%)

1. The initiative offers a unique and creative youth-led solution as well as a fresh idea to increase the adaptive capacity and resilience of targeted vulnerable communities to flooding and heatwaves.

d. Feasibility (20%)

1. The initiative has a clear, well-structured, and realistic implementation plan.
2. It demonstrates a clear understanding of the resources, timeline, and budget required for effective execution.  
3. The project represents good value for money, with a clear and appropriate budget.  
4. The youth-led organization can implement the proposed initiative (solution) within the given timeframe and budget.
5. The applicant has clear understanding of key barriers to successful deployment of the solution and how the team plans to overcome them.   

e. Sustainability (20%)

1. A clear understanding of how the applicant plans to meet the financial needs of the solution beyond the micro-grant.
2. The initiative includes strategies for sustainability beyond the micro-grant period to ensure continued impact.  

7. Award of Micro-grant

Successful applicants will be contacted via email and provided with information on further steps, including due diligence, agreement signing and fund transfer procedures.  

8. Contacts

For any inquiries, the applicants may reach out to the Ghetto Go Green Team via gggmicrogrants@gmail.com or activecitizenuganda@gmail.com,babijajuliet@gmail.com or call +256701488462