Call for Participants - MIC Third Edition 2025

دعوة للمشاركة - النسخة الثالثة من المبادرة المتوسطية للمناخ 2025

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The Mediterranean Initiative for Climate (MIC) 2025

The Mediterranean region is home to more than 510 million people and is warming 20% faster than the global average, according to UNEP. Recognizing the urgency of these environmental challenges, MIC emerged as a youth-led initiative to tackle environmental key issues such as climate change and corruption.

The MIC initiative will target 45 representatives aged 21–35 from civil society organizations based in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, with a focus on ensuring a minimum of 40% female participation. MIC aims to address environmental corruption, including Improper Disposal of Industrial Waste in Tunisia, air pollution and water mismanagement in Greater Cairo and Upper Egypt, and environment Negligence and Lax Oversight in Libya through capacity-building workshops and intensive mentorship over the course of five months.

The MIC initiative will target 45 representatives aged 21–35 from civil society organizations based in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, with a focus on ensuring a minimum of 40% female participation. MIC aims to address environmental corruption, including Improper Disposal of Industrial Waste in Tunisia, air pollution and water mismanagement in Greater Cairo and Upper Egypt, and environment Negligence and Lax Oversight in Libya through capacity-building workshops and intensive mentorship over the course of five months.

  • Objectives

    ● Training and mentoring 45 CSO representatives from 5 organizations, 20 from Egypt,15 from Tunisia and 10 from Libya on tackling environmental corruption, particularly environment negligence and lax oversight,improper disposal of industrial waste and water mismanagement.

  • ● Creating a network of empowered NGOs in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya equipped to address environmental corruption and climate change at a local level by the end of 2025.

  • ● Training youth leaders from NGOs to be capable of formulating practical strategies addressing various forms of environmental corruption, enabling them to implement these strategies within their organizations and communities, ensuring broader adoption across each country.

  • ● Developing programs on monitoring environmental violations based on strategies designed by the trainees.

  • Outcomes

    ● Each group will produce a plan outlining their strategies that can be implemented within their NGO and shared within their community.

  • ● Developing and implementing those strategies and policies within their NGOs and communities over the course of 2–3 years.

  • ● Fostering a sustainable framework for environmental corruption that can be scaled across the Mediterranean.

  • ● Contributing to reducing Improper Disposal of Industrial Waste activities in Tunisia within the next two years.

  • ● Enhancing resilience of communities in Egypt, especially Upper Egypt and Greater Cairo, to water scarcity issues.

  • ● Reducing waste through promoting waste management through incentives and accessible education, such as the promotion of proper recycling practices.

  • MIC expects to

    ● Prepare 45 CSOs trained and actively working on anti-environmental corruption strategies.

  • ● Develop and implement effective strategies designed by the trainees for combating environmental corruption and ensuring these strategies are adopted within their organizations and communities on a national scale for at least the next 2~3 years

  • ● Strengthen female representation in the field of environmental corruption by actively involving women in relevant initiatives within participating organizations.

  • ● Document reduction in illegal logging and water mismanagement in target areas.

Application Deadline:

 May 5, 2025. At 11:00 PM, Cairo Time. 

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Event Location:

This event will be implemented in three countries (Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya) in parallel. The exact location and date in each country will be determined for the shortlisted candidates.

Nomination Letter:

The Nomination Letter is attached. Please download it, fill in the required details, after signing and stamping by the legal representative of your nominating organization then re-upload it after signing and stamping it in a clear PDF format in the designed section.

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