Who Qualifies for Climate Resilience Funds in Marshall Islands

GrantID: 75982

Grant Funding Amount Low: $10,000

Deadline: Ongoing

Grant Amount High: $200,000

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Summary

This grant may be available to individuals and organizations in Marshall Islands that are actively involved in Other. To locate more funding opportunities in your field, visit The Grant Portal and search by interest area using the Search Grant tool.

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Grant Overview

Eligibility for funding in the Marshall Islands requires applicants to demonstrate direct links to traditional Marshallese knowledge systems that address rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion on atolls. Only entities registered with the Marshall Islands Council of Traditional Leaders or holding formal endorsement from a local irooj or alap qualify. This criterion stems from the need to anchor activities in verified oral histories of navigation and land stewardship rather than external frameworks.

Application materials must include tide-gauge data from the Majuro station covering the past decade alongside recordings or transcripts of elder accounts of king-tide events. Budgets are limited to travel between Majuro, Kwajalein, and outer atolls, participant per diems set at local government rates, and translation services between Marshallese and English. No funds support construction or equipment purchases exceeding $2,500.

Review panels assess whether proposed workshops or presentations will occur in at least two outer atolls where population density falls below 50 persons per square kilometer. Applicants must also supply letters confirming venue access at community halls or church facilities without rental fees.

The Marshall Islands' 29 atolls and five islands span 1.2 million square miles of ocean, yet 70 percent of the 42,000 residents live in Majuro or Ebeye. This concentration creates sharp differences in access to recording equipment and internet. Programs must therefore allocate at least 40 percent of participant costs to outer-island residents who rely on irregular field-trip vessel schedules.

Economic activity centers on Compact of Free Association payments and purse-seine fishing licenses. Cultural exchange budgets cannot exceed 15 percent of total project costs on imported materials, directing remaining resources toward locally caught seafood for meals and traditional pandanus weaving supplies.

Unlike Palau, the Marshall Islands compact emphasizes nuclear testing legacy documentation, requiring any climate-focused gathering to incorporate at least one session on radiation effects on traditional food sources. This requirement distinguishes reviews from those applied in the Federated States of Micronesia.

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