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.
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