The Cities Alliance, a global partnership for urban poverty reduction and the promotion of the role of cities in sustainable development has issued its second call for proposals under its Catalytic Fund.
The theme under which the funding would be provided is “Youth and the City: Challenges of and Visions for Demographic Change.”
The thematic call has three main objectives in line with the ‘catalytic’ nature of the Fund:
- To raise awareness of the role of youth in urban development at a time when cities, grappling with an historic urbanisation process, appear ill-prepared to provide improved governance, meaningful representation, or economic and social roles for their youthful populations.
- To select and support, both technically and financially, innovative youth-focused urban projects and to revisit traditional Cities Alliance areas such as city development strategies, slum upgrading and national policies on urban development with an emphasis on youth.
- To provide a flexible platform for successful projects to develop peer-to-peer learning networks and to systematically extract and share knowledge that both informs and influences urban practices as well as policy dialogues at the local, national and global level.
The proposed project must be implemented in countries that are on the OECD DAC List of Aid Recipients.
Grant size requests must be limited to between US $50,000 – US $250,000.
The deadline for submission is 30 April 2012 at midnight (Washington DC time). For more information, visit this link.
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