- Eligibility Criteria: The grant is open to organizations, community groups, and initiatives based in the Pacific region that are working on climate change adaptation, resilience, and social justice.
- Type of Funding: Grant
- Target Region: Asia, Pacific, and Oceania
- Application Language: English, French
The Tipping Point Pacific Grant by Oxfam Pacific supports initiatives that address climate change impacts in Pacific Island countries, with a focus on locally led solutions and community resilience. The fund aims to amplify responses to the climate crisis that are rooted in the lived realities of Pacific communities.
The grant supports Indigenous and community rooted youth-led, women-led disability-inclusive and gender-diverse initiatives addressing feminist climate and structural injustice in the Pacific. The grant centers care, justice, autonomy, and collective wellbeing, recognising that communities most affected by the climate crisis experience displacement, violence, economic marginalisation, and for many, oppressive colonial legacies.
Thematics
Grants may support work in one or more of the following areas:
- Feminist Climate Justice: Gender equality and equity intersecting with climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, land sovereignty, ocean protection, and climate mobility.
- Confronting Extractive Industries and Capitalism: Ending poverty, economic/trade/debt justice, corporate accountability, locally owned/led just transition, deep seabed mining, land-based mining, care economy, degrowth, ecological accounting, alternatives – indigenous, cultural and traditional revival of practices promoting living in harmony and sustainably with nature.
- Demilitarization, and land and ocean sovereignty: Nuclear free Pacific, anti-war/genocide, peace, anti-imperialism, fascism, resistance in occupied territories (North Pacific, Kanaky, West Papua, Ma’ohi Nui, Wallis and Futuna), reparations.
- Narrative Power and Knowledge: Feminist storytelling, anti-rights agenda, artivism, cultural political expression, cultural memory, Indigenous research, decolonial frameworks, feminist ethics
- Leadership, Healing and Intergenerational Work: Mentorship, trauma-informed leadership, youth–elder knowledge exchange
Eligibility
- Youth-led, women-led, peoples living with disability or gender-diverse groups
- Indigenous, community-rooted and grassroots collectives
- Informal networks or unregistered groups (fiscal hosting available with Oxfam Pacific)
- Groups with limited access to funding
- Must be based in one of the following locations: West Papua, Kanaky, Guam, Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands, Hawai’i, Ma’ohi Nui (French Polynesia), Wallis and Futuna, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu, Fiji.
How to apply
You can access our full step-by-step guide to applying here. The last date for submissions is May 31, 2026.
Applications must include:
- Background information of your organization, collective or grassroots alliances and networks
- A clear description of your advocacy including your theory of change in any of the areas of gender equality, climate justice, demilitarization, land and ocean sovereignty, indigenous alternatives, feminist climate conscience raising and narrative shifting, healing and collective well being
- Describe your connection to communities particularly working with women, girls, youth and gender diverse peoples.
Share highlights of your work through links to videos, photos, social media, websites, etc - A proposed budget for 6-12 months.
- Applications can only be accepted in English and French.