Small Grants 2025
IKI Small Grants supports local actors worldwide, such as non-governmental organisations, in implementing effective climate and biodiversity action projects. Since the beginning of the program in 2019, more than 250 local project ideas and individual measures have been selected across two different funding lines.
Through project work, around 48,000 people have already been supported in effectively strengthening their resilience to the negative impacts of climate change. This includes measures that help cope with or prevent drought-related crop failures or floods. Significant successes have also been achieved in biodiversity protection. To date, nearly 100,000 hectares of terrestrial, marine, and coastal ecosystems have been effectively protected or converted to sustainable management – an area approximately the size of 170,000 football fields.
IKI Small Grants
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Potsdamer Platz 10
10785 Berlin
Seventh worldwide open call for proposals
The program issues worldwide open calls for project proposals. These are aimed at organisations from developing and emerging countries that are regionally, nationally, or locally anchored. Organisations who apply must have at least three years of relevant experience and an average annual revenue between 60,000 and 500,000 euros. IKI Small Grants provides them with funding between 60,000 and 200,000 euros for the implementation of climate and biodiversity projects. Projects must address at least one of the four IKI support areas: mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation to climate change impacts, conservation of natural carbon sinks, or biodiversity conservation.
The seventh Call for Proposals was launched on 17 November 2025. Organisations can register and apply for funding on www.iki-small-grants.de until 15 January 2026.
Review and submission of project proposals
Submissions from interested organisations are reviewed to determine if they meet the programme's requirements. If they do, they are then invited to develop and submit their project proposals by March 26, 2025. IKI Small Grants is run by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. For more information, please visit the IKI Small Grants website.
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