Date: 05 Jun 2021
Minister Roderic O’Gorman awards funding to 14 projects
The Youth Climate Justice Fund was announced in March 2021 with a closing date of 4th May 2021. In 2021 the Fund total was just under €500,000 and was open to applications from all national youth organisations funded under the Youth Service Grant Scheme and from Gaisce – The President’s Award.
Applications to the Fund were asked to propose projects which would achieve one, or more, of the following key goals or actions:
- Raise climate justice awareness among young people
- Educate youth groups and clubs on climate justice, including supporting development education organisations to work with young people
- Empower young people to influence, effect and sustain local, regional or national climate justice change, creating dialogue with people outside of the youth sector
- Deliver practical climate justice initiatives by young people in their communities, including supports to facilitate the participation of young people with fewer opportunities
- Develop youth related activities to embed climate justice communications, network building and deliberative capacity that connects with, and leverages, local youth and community activities
- Strengthen youth practitioner capacity to integrate climate justice education into their youth work practice
- Participate in and influence local public and private policy formation aimed at environmentally sustainable development and management of climate action
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Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, T.D., today approved funding to support 14 youth-led projects in the area of climate justice. In line with the recommendations of a specially convened Selection Committee, funding of almost €400,000 is being allocated to projects involving 23 youth organisations.
All projects funded under the Youth Climate Justice Fund 2021 are being led by a national youth organisation funded under the Youth Services Grant Scheme of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.
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