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Funding for Youth Climate Justice Projects

Funding for Youth Climate Justice Projects

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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