2026 Climate Resilience Fellowships
📖 About the Fellowship
The King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme - Climate Resilience Fellowships, inspired by His Majesty King Charles III, is a fully funded, one-year professional development program focused on climate adaptation practice. It is designed for professionals working on the frontline of climate adaptation across the public sector, civil society, and private sector in Commonwealth Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Key Details:
- Date Published: October 20, 2025
- Application Deadline: November 19, 2025
- Category: Entrepreneurs, Fully Funded
🎁 Benefits
This fellowship offers a fully funded, blended training program guided by expert facilitators and mentors. The core elements include:
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18-week online training course (February-July 2026), involving:
- Live workshops
- Self-study
- Assignments
- Modules covering:
- Climate literacy
- Inter-sectoral collaboration
- Influencing policy
- Climate finance
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Five-day in-person residential in Fiji (August 2026).
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Five-month workplace-based applied learning project (August-December 2026).
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Practical tools to respond to and build long-term resilience against the climate crisis.
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Access to a virtual Community of Practice for shared problem-solving and information exchange.
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Candidates will continue their employment while undertaking the course.
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The program is progressing towards formal accreditation, with the goal of offering a Postgraduate Certificate.
✅ Eligibility Criteria
Who Can Apply:
- Mid-career professionals (5-15 years of direct or related experience in climate adaptation practice).
- Applicants must have a planned commitment to 10-20 years of increasingly responsible roles within this field.
Additional Requirements:
- Applicants must be employed at an organization registered in an eligible country with a contract valid until at least February 2027.
- Applicants must be citizens of or have refugee status in an eligible country.
- Applicants’ permanent home must be in an eligible country.
Eligible Countries:
- Africa: Mauritius, Seychelles
- Asia: The Maldives
- Caribbean and Americas: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
- Pacific: Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
📅 Application Date and Process
- Application Deadline: November 19, 2025
- Visit the official application portal to apply:
King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme - Climate Resilience Fellowships
To apply directly, create an account on the portal:
Application Form
🌟 Sponsor Organisation
The fellowship is sponsored by The Association of Commonwealth Universities.
This opportunity is ideal for professionals committed to advancing climate adaptation practices and building resilience against the climate crisis. Don't miss the chance to be part of this impactful program!
- A fully funded one-year blended training programme, guided by expert facilitators and mentors, including the following core elements:
- An 18-week online training course (February-July 2026), involving live workshops, self-study, assignments and the following modules:
- Climate literacy
- Inter-sectoral collaboration
- Influencing policy
- Climate finance
- One five-day in person residential in Fiji (August 2026)
- A five-month workplace-based applied learning project (August-December 2026)
- The opportunity to acquire the practical tools needed to respond to and build long-term resilience against the current climate crisis with near immediate effect
- Access to a virtual Community of Practice for shared-problem solving and information exchange
- Candidates will undertake the course while continuing their employment. We are actively progressing towards formal accreditation, with the goal of offering a Postgraduate Certificate that reflects the rigour and value of the programme.
