July 21, 2025
Education for Climate Action: Strengthening Youth Capacity to Address Climate Change
ROTA takes a capabilities-based approach; one that is non-instrumentalist. Each individual young person is seen as an end in him or herself. For ROTA, this means that strengthening the capabilities of young people is viewed as critical to enabling their holistic development, which includes each young person recognising her or his own potential. By adopting a capabilities-based approach, ROTA focuses on youth's opportunities and abilities to generate valuable outcomes for themselves (and by extension wider society), taking into account relevant personal characteristics and external factors.
Target Group: The population of concern for ROTA supported interventions is marginalised youth between the ages of 15 to 24 years in secondary schools, communities and refugee camps.
- Ages of Youth: ROTA notes that there is no universally agreed definition of "youth" and for statistical purposes defines "youth" as those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years.
- Refugee/Internally Displaced Youth: Displaced populations living in refugee camps or other informal settlements.
- Marginalised youth: ROTA defines marginalisation as any conditions, processes, or inequalities that excludes, denies, or presents barriers for individuals or groups of youth from reaching their full potential to contribute to or participate in society.
NOTE: ROTA does not support awareness raising among community members or advocacy or policy change activities in its Education for Climate Action Projects.
Expression of Interest (EOI) EOI Selection Criteria
- At a minimum, the ROTA Partnership Criteria stipulates that all projects must reach at least 10,000 youth per year.
- In addition, the applicant should provide 50% or more of the co-funding resources and demonstrate that the project shows cost effectiveness of ROTA"s investment.
- Cost effectiveness is demonstrated through the ROTA Investment per Youth (IPY) for the lifespan of the project.
Criteria used to screen incoming Expressions of Interest (EOI):
| Criteria | High | Medium | Low |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potential Impact | More than 30,000/yr. youth participate in Education for Climate Action activities | Between 10,000 and 30,000/yr. youth in Education for Climate Action activities | Less than 10,000/yr. youth participate in in Education for Climate Action activities |
| Cost Effectiveness | Depends on the project design compared to similar interventions | ||
| Implementation Capacity | Successfully implemented relevant project in last 3 years | Successfully implemented similar project previously | Limited indication of implementation capacity |
| Intervention Methodology | Proposed interventions focus clearly on Education for Climate Action and Youth-led Actions to address climate change effects in a measurable way | Partially links identified barriers to strategies | There is weak or no linkage between the barriers and proposed strategies |
| Sustainability | Strong likelihood that impact will continue beyond the life of the project. Strong link with ‘National Strategy’ | Medium likelihood that impact will continue beyond the life of the project | Low likelihood that impact will continue beyond the life of the project |
| Co-funding | ≥ 50% co-funding committed per year with plans for future co-funding | ≤ 50% co-funding committed per year with plans for future co-funding | < 50% co-funding committed per year with no plans for future co-funding |
In addition to the above criteria, kindly ensure that all sections of the EOI are completed and have sufficient information.
The EOI will also be assessed on the strength of the following areas: detailed strategies for identifying and building capacity among marginalised youth; realistic project timeframe; realistic budget; and availability of credible information on secured and planned co-funding. The EOI should have most of these elements to ensure that the proposed project is in a position to achieve the stated project targets and ensure quality programming.
ROTA will evaluate EOIs by using the checklist below to confirm that all the relevant areas have been addressed:
| EOI Pre-Appraisal Checklist | Yes/No | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All sections of the EOI are fully completed. | ☐ |
| 2 | The EOI describes strategies for identifying and building capacity among refugee, marginalised youth. | ☐ |
| 3 | The EOI has sufficient details on the proposed activities. | ☐ |
| 4 | Youth lead on actions that address climate change effects in their communities | ☐ |
| 5 | The EOI does not include activities related to community raising awareness, advocacy to change related policies. | ☐ |
| 6 | The proposed timeframe of project is realistic given the project context and barriers in order to achieve stated goals/targets/outcomes. | ☐ |
| 7 | The proposed budget is realistic in order to achieve stated project target and provide quality programming./td> | ☐ |
| 8 | The EOI has adequate details on planned co-funding. | ☐ |
| 9 | The project will be implemented in no more than three countries | ☐ |
| 10 | The deliverables table is clearly filled | ☐ |
| 11 | The youth Led climate Actions table is completed | ☐ |
EOI Submission
Please fill in all fields in the ROTA EOI Template and submit to ROTA via email to rotapartners@eaa.org.qa.
All subsequent queries to ROTA about the EOI should be directed through the same email address.
