CALL FOR PROPOSALS - NOW OPEN!
Deadline, June 15th at 8:59PM PST
Check out the Informational Webinar video that was held via Zoom on April 2, 2025 here
The BCRIP project will fund Indigenous-led Nature-Based Solutions Partnership Projects in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Guatemala. These projects will be co-designed and co-implemented in partnership with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
Partnership projects will also include knowledge sharing, relationship building, and joint advocacy opportunities. Projects should also focus on several cross-cutting themes, such as Indigenous-led climate action, self-determination, rights, knowledge systems/science and gender equality.
Interested First Nations in BC and selected Indigenous communities and/or organizations in the four Latin American countries will be required to collaborate on the creation and submission of a proposal. Please fill out this Google Form to confirm your interest in partnering and collaborating on a shared proposal. This information will help us support you in matching and forming partnerships with pre-selected and eligible Indigenous communities and/or organizations in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru.
Proposals for Partnerships Projects will be due on June 15th, 2025, at 8:59 pm PST, and the projects are anticipated to start between July and August 2025.
Approved applicants will implement the partnership projects within a maximum of two years. Proposals will be due in April, and projects are anticipated to start in July-August 2025.
AVAILABLE FUNDING
Indigenous co-applicants in Canada will be able to apply for up to $207,000 per project over 12-24 months; whereas the co-applicants from Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru will be able to apply for either of: CAD 100,000-122,000 (small grant) CAD 300,000-390,000 (medium grant), CAD 600,000-633,000 (large grant).
WHO CAN APPLY?
Find out if you are eligible by completing this SELF-ASSESSMENT TEST. If you are eligible, you will be directed to a separate form to provide additional information about yourself and any details you would like to share with your Southern partner.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS:
June 15, 2025 (8:59PM PST)
RESOURCES TO HELP PREPARE YOUR PROPOSAL:
Application Guide
Financial Guidance
FAQs
Presentation Slides from Informational Webinar on March 3, 2025
Application Template
Budget Template
GET IN TOUCH
Patricia Rojas: patricia.rojas@bcafn.ca
Kristi Denby: kristi.denby@bcafn.ca
PROJECT BACKGROUND
While disproportionately affected by climate change, Indigenous Peoples also play a unique and essential role in combating it. Indigenous Peoples have an intrinsic relationship and interconnectedness with Mother Nature and possess ancestral knowledge systems, science, and technologies.
Building international partnerships with Indigenous Peoples from around the world can strengthen climate resilience, promote knowledge sharing, and foster advocacy and long-lasting relationships. Indigenous Peoples from around the world, we can share and uplift our cultural, spiritual, linguistic, and legal principles and practices connected to our harmonious ways of coexisting with Mother Nature, which are vital for climate adaptation, resilience and collective continuance for Indigenous Peoples.
Building Climate Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives (BCRIP) is a four-year (2024 – 2028) Indigenous-led project funded by Global Affairs Canada (Indigenous Peoples Partnering for Climate funding stream). BCRIP aims to challenge normalized international development narratives by uplifting Indigenous knowledge systems and science and contributing to Indigenous Peoples’ rights, Self-Determination, and Climate Leadership.
Nature-based solutions (NbS) from an Indigenous perspective refer to Indigenous-led approaches to climate solutions grounded in traditional ecological knowledge, principles, practices, and sciences, as well as the right to self-determination, authority and jurisdiction. NbS must recognize the historical and ongoing context of colonization, which has led to land disposition, culture, language and knowledge systems disruption, and systemic social and economic inequalities.
The Project focuses on several cross-cutting themes, such as Indigenous self-determination, rights, knowledge systems/science and gender equity. The Project aims to:
- Build climate resilience and support Indigenous-led climate action through joint advocacy, strengthened governance, relationship building and knowledge-sharing between Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Indigenous Peoples in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala.
- Provide funding and support for self-determined Nature-Based Solutions partnership projects. The projects will be collaboratively designed by Indigenous partners in Canada and Latin America (Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala) but implemented in Latin America.
Over four years, the project will fund Indigenous-led Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) projects that will be co-designed and co-implemented in partnership with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
The project is led by a diverse team, including the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN), the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA SUR) through the National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women in Peru (ONAMIAP), with the support of Save the Children Canada (National Reconciliation Program) and Save the Children Latin America and Caribbean.
MANDATE
The Building Climate Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives (BCRIP) Project is an opportunity to deliver on BCAFN's mandate to pursue international advocacy opportunities on climate change, Indigenous rights, and sovereignty and build relationships for joint action and advocacy with Indigenous Peoples abroad.
Resolution 32/2023
Resolution 05/2021
MATERIALS AND ADDITIONAL INFO
BCRIP Project Announcement
BCRIP Infosheet PDF
Indigenous Steering Group Terms of Reference PDF