Application Deadline: 30 June 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Applications are now open for the 2026 King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme Climate Resilience Fellowships. The King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme Climate Resilience Fellowships, inspired by His Majesty King Charles III, will provide professionals working on the frontline of climate adaptation from across the public sector, civil society, and private sector in Commonwealth SIDS with an accredited one-year professional development programme focused on climate adaptation practice.
This fellowship will support the long-term resilience of Commonwealth SIDS to climate change through:
- Strengthening the capacity of mid-career professionals in Commonwealth-based SIDS to practically address the current and future climate adaptation challenges in their home country
- Providing a collaborative platform for the testing and implementation of climate adaptation solutions for SIDS
- Developing a cross-sectoral and international network of climate adaptation professionals, working together to face challenges and embrace opportunities
- Enabling and ensuring ongoing efforts for inclusive climate adaptation through centring gender, equality, and inclusion and local and indigenous communities.
To do this, the Fellowship will involve participation in a solutions-focused, practical one-year professional development programme in climate adaptation practice that is grounded in the participants’ real-world experiences.
Requirements
- 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 within 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, and Trinidad and Tobago
Pacific
Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu
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:
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- Climate literacy
- Inter-sectoral collaboration
- Influencing policy
- Climate finance
- One five-day in person residential in Jamaica (June 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.
Course Details
Week 1 – Orientation
Week 2-5 – Climate literacy
- Week 2 – Introduction to Climate Literacy and the Climate Emergency
- Week 3 – Climate Change – Physical Basis, Projections, and Climate Information
- Week 4 – Climate Impacts and Risks for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
- Week 5 – Communicating Climate Change and Engaging Communities
Week 6 – Break
Week 7-10 – Inter-sectoral collaboration
- Week 7 – Systems and Errors of the Third Kind
- Week 8 – Thinking in Systems, Changing the Status Quo, and Decolonising Development
- Week 9 – Moving from Linear to Circular, Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
- Week 10 – The Role of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Inter-sectoral Planning
Week 11 – Break
Week 12-15 – Influencing policy
- Week 12 – Global Policy Context for Climate Change Adaptation
- Week 13 – National and Sub-national Policies and Institutions
- Week 14 – Gender Justice in Climate Action
- Week 15 – Indigenous and Local Knowledge Solutions
Week 16 – Break
Week 17-20 – Climate finance
- Week 17 – Sustainable Financial Instruments
- Week 18 – Sustainable Finance in Project Evaluation
- Week 19 – Fintech in Climate Financing
- Week 20 – Climate Finance Regulation and Supervision
Week 21-23 – Break
Week 24 – In-person residential (collaborative design for applied learning projects)
Week 25-45 – Workplace-based applied learning project (participant-defined and –led)
Week 46 – Submission of project report
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