Deadline: November 19, 2025
Applications are open for the King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme – Climate Resilience Fellowships 2026. Commonwealth Small Island Developing States (CW SIDS) are among the most vulnerable countries in the world, facing numerous economic, social and environmental development challenges, all exacerbated by climate change.
Building resilience to the trends and events associated with climate change is critical to addressing these vulnerabilities and requires adaptation. Effective adaptation action is informed by a knowledge of climate change, its impacts and effective solutions, in addition to harnessing collective leadership and capacities for action among various sectors and stakeholders.
The King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme – Climate Resilience Fellowships, inspired by His Majesty King Charles III, will provide public sector officials, civil society stakeholders, and private sector professionals working on the frontline of climate adaptation in CW SIDS with a one-year professional development programme focused on climate adaptation practice.
Benefits
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. They are actively progressing towards formal accreditation, with the goal of offering a Postgraduate Certificate that reflects the rigour and value of the programme.
Eligibility
- Mid-career professionals (across any sector) working in a climate adaptation practice-related role.
- Mid-career is defined as 5-15 years of direct or related experience to climate adaptation practice (or equivalent) – not job title.
- Applicants must have a planned commitment to 10-20 years of increasingly responsible roles withing this field.
- Applicants must be employed at an organisation registered in an eligible country with a contract up to 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.
- The following countries are eligible:
- 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, The Cayman Islands and Trinidad and Tobago
- Pacific: Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu
Application
Applications for the KCFP Climate Resilience Fellowships are now open. The deadline to apply is 13:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19 November 2025.
- If you work at an ACU member university, apply directly here.
- If you are not an employee of an ACU member university, you’ll need to create a MyACU account before applying and then apply here.
For more information, visit King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme.
