IDMP x APFM (WMO and GWP)Competition

CHF 3,000 Youth-Led Projects Competition

Aug 31, 2026

Opportunity type

Competition

Funding

Fully Funded

Location

Global

Deadline

Aug 31, 2026

About this opportunity

This competition is organized by the Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP) and the Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM), joint programmes of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP), in partnership with the Water Youth Network. It finances youth-led projects that build community resilience to floods and drought.

What you get: ➤ CHF 3,000 in project financing (two prizes awarded) ➤ Nine months of implementation guidance from flood and drought experts ➤ Visibility through WMO and GWP programme channels

What you'll do: ➤ Design a practical project that strengthens flood or drought resilience in a vulnerable community ➤ Implement the project within a maximum of nine months ➤ Work with the programme's experts during implementation

Who can apply

Project leaders aged 18 to 35 (students or young professionals)
Open to youth-led projects worldwide; no country restriction stated
Project must concretely enhance resilience to floods or drought with tangible outputs
Implementable within a maximum of 9 months
Must be scalable, sustainable and include a feasible innovative element
Proposals in English or Spanish, submitted once through the official form
No application fees

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Good to know

+The organizer question is resolved cleanly: run by IDMP and APFM, joint WMO and GWP programmes, with the Water Youth Network, and the contact address is droughtmanagement@wmo.int
+Track record of winners published for 2022, 2023 and 2025 with project reports
+Remote and global: no travel needed, prize funds your own community project

Worth checking yourself

!The submission itself is a Google Form (linked from the official page); the applicationLink correctly points at the info page
!The prize funds implementation, so treat CHF 3,000 as the project budget ceiling from this source

What we could not confirm

?Deadline time and timezone (date only on the page; contact is a wmo.int address, so likely CET, not stated)
?Winner announcement date and prize payment mechanics (may be in the submission guidelines PDF, not read)

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About this opportunity

What you get: ➤ CHF 3,000 in project financing (two prizes awarded) ➤ Nine months of implementation guidance from flood and drought experts ➤ Visibility through WMO and GWP programme channels

Who can apply

Project leaders aged 18 to 35 (students or young professionals)
Open to youth-led projects worldwide; no country restriction stated
Project must concretely enhance resilience to floods or drought with tangible outputs
Implementable within a maximum of 9 months
Must be scalable, sustainable and include a feasible innovative element
Proposals in English or Spanish, submitted once through the official form
No application fees