AfricaAdapt has launched the second round of the Knowledge Sharing Innovation Fund to promote sharing of knowledge and experiences among poor and vulnerable communities in Africa.
AfricaAdapt is an independent bilingual network (French/English) working to facilitate the flow of climate change adaptation knowledge for sustainable livelihoods between researchers, policy makers, civil society organizations and communities who are vulnerable to climate variability and change across the continent.
The knowledge Sharing Innovation Fund is providing grants of up to US $6500 “to projects that seek to overcome barriers to share knowledge with ’hard to reach’ or marginalised African communities. These barriers may be related to geographical remotness, low communication infrastructure, language, access to information and marginalisation due to gender or disability. Theatre performances, songs, radio broadcasts, visual arts, videos and comics are just a few ideas about how they could be overcome. The key is to ensure these groups can learn and share knowledge that can be usefully deployed.”
African researchers, local and civil society organisations, cooperatives and community networks are encouraged to submit their ideas.
Important dates:
First round of submissions open from 9th August to 20th August, 2010.
Shortlisted applicants will be notified by 6th September.
For more information, visit this link.
