Call for proposals: Just Rural Transition Support Program 2025 (More than £1,000,000)

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Applications are open for Just Rural Transition Support Program 2025. Proposals are invited to create and support a global community of practice of non-state actors to engage on issues related to sustainable agriculture and the food systems transition.

This grant is a component of the FCDO’s Just Rural Transition Support program. This is a £65 million 5-year programme that will support the design and implementation of public policies and support (including through subsidy reforms) that scale sustainable agriculture approaches in developing countries to benefit:

people (healthy diets, incomes)
climate (mitigation, adaptation)
nature (protect and restore biodiversity)

Just Rural Transition Support Program Objectives

This component of the program aims to create a global community of practice to facilitate lesson sharing on innovative policy approaches to sustainable agriculture and subsidy repurposing and implementing these approaches, to promote marginalised voices on food systems transformation and their involvement in global dialogues.

Focus Areas

What the fund will achieve?

The grant will provide support over 4 years to deliver a well organised, non-state-actor community that can influence policy reform processes and contributes to driving positive food systems change

This will focus on 3 key areas:

Convening and Curating a Community of Practice: They want to promote an inclusive and positive global dialogue on food systems transformation focusing on non-state actors and farmers, which sets out the roles different actors can play and what good looks like.
the community of practice should highlight compelling case studies and examples of state and non-state actor action on food systems that can show what works and drive action from others.
Knowledge sharing and Communications on Food Systems Transformation: collaborating to develop key political and policy messages to take to government and to global convenings and platforms: this element will focus on the wider community and support non state actors to identify key messages to take to governments and global meetings such as COP.

Just Rural Transition Support Program Funding Information

Value of funding:
More than £1,000,000

Duration

This grant will run from early 2025 for 4 years, to quarter two of 2029.

Eligibility Criteria for Just Rural Transition Support Program

This funding opportunity is only available to not-for-profit organisations. Any bids by for-profit organisations will not be eligible for funding and will not be considered.
Note that if a partner appears as a lead in a bid, they will maintain that lead status and not be able to appear in another bid as a sub/downstream partner. However, a downstream partner may appear in other bids as a sub/ downstream partner with no restriction.
The opportunity is open to organisations in any country.