CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PROPOSALS ON GENDER-TRANSFORMATIVE CLIMATE RESILIENCE INITIATIVES

Oxfam in Malawi is implementing the Gender Transformative Climate Resilience Initiatives (GTCRI) Project in Zomba District, funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) through the Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF). The project addresses key challenges, particularly gender inequalities and climate vulnerabilities, by promoting improved gender-transformative, climate-resilient, and low-carbon development in selected vulnerable communities, focusing on women and girls. The strategic change areas are structural and system changes in women’s leadership in climate resilience and enhancing the economic viability of women and youth. The Ultimate Rights outcome is to increase the realization of the rights among women, men and youth as a foundation for gender-transformative, low-carbon and climate-resilient development in Zomba.

The University of Malawi, under the Department of Sociology and Population Studies (DSPS), is implementing an activity that “supports research work by young women in tertiary institutions related to GTCRI in Zomba.” Therefore, DSPS, in collaboration with Oxfam in Malawi, is inviting student proposals to be supported under this project.

This call is open to current third-year students from all schools within UNIMA. Proposals should focus on climate resilience, including but not limited to disaster risk reduction and climate-smart agriculture.

Submission Guidelines:

  1. Format: Proposals must be submitted as:

  1. Content: Proposals should include:

  • A brief introduction

  • Problem statement

  • Objectives

  • Justification

  • Methodology

  • A tentative budget and timeline.

  1. Cover Page: The cover page must include the student’s:

    • Registration number

    • Department

    • School

Deadline:

The submission deadline is April 30, 2025.