Green Recovery Challenge Fund

The application will be a two-step process: Expression of Interest (EOI), followed by full proposal for shortlisted applicants. Only organisations registered as not-for-profit organisations are eligible to be the lead Implementing Partner of a proposal/consortium. For-profit organisations can participate in the call for proposals as partners within a consortium.

When the funding round is launched, applying organisations should register their interest and create an account for the portal where application submissions will be uploaded. Applicants should then complete an EOI application form for their funding window of choice. The EOI will collect general information about the organisation, eligibility information, project details and funding requirements.

Applicants who are successful at EOI will be invited to submit a full proposal. The full proposal will require greater detail about the project, including relevant stakeholders, beneficiaries, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) considerations, project risks, intended outcomes, milestones, tasks and a full budget breakdown of requested grant funding using a prescribed template – this will be made available to shortlisted applicants.

All applications must be completed in English. The following content is available to provide all the necessary support for completing a UK PACT Green Recovery Challenge Fund application:

• The Guidance Document
• The FAQs document
• Expression of Interest Template
• Accountable Grant Arrangement
• Detailed theme information

The template for the full proposal will be made available to shortlisted applicants. Should any further support be needed, the UK PACT Green Recovery Challenge Fund team will be available to provide assistance during the application process. For support, please email grchallengefund@ukpact.co.uk.

All applications are subject to competitive assessment to ensure that funded projects meet UK PACT's aim of supporting the acceleration of the low-carbon transition as well as demonstrating value for money.

At EOI, projects were assessed for their eligibility as pass/fail. Eligible projects were then scored to assess their potential for transformational change (interventions that catalyse further changes and/or enable faster change to occur) and deliverability (expected likelihood of successful delivery of the project).

At full proposal, projects are assessed on the greater level of detail provided for potential for transformational change and deliverability. Proposals are also assessed on how well they demonstrate value for money throughout the application.

Details of the scoring criteria and weightings can be found in the guidance document.

In addition to scoring against the defined criteria, projects are carefully selected to ensure a complementary portfolio balanced in theme, region and levels of novelty. Distribution across countries is also a consideration.

For the 2022 funding round, we‘ll be focusing on the following demand-led themes. If you wish to find out about themes that we have previously funded, please visit our main page.

MRV tools for forests, land use and agriculture

supports emissions reduction efforts and generates economic opportunities in Asia and Latin America by improving the sustainability of forest and agricultural practices through accurate measuring, reporting and verification (MRV).

Greening financial systems

continues its work in Asia to mainstream climate-related financial risks and opportunities in order to unlock investments that contribute to achieving net zero goals and a just transition.