The Directorate of Environment and Climate Change (DoECC) promotes creation of environmental awareness among all groups of the society through various programmes in the state plan scheme “Environmental Awareness and Education”. The objective of one of the component programme of the said plan scheme titled “Environment Management Training Programmes/Workshops” is to provide an interactive platform to professionals, scientists, decision-makers and other groups of the society to build capacity, share knowledge and experience on various aspects of environment conservation and management, focusing on the wise use and sustainable development principles.

Under this programme, financial assistance is provided to academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, Government agencies etc. to build capacity on identified thrust areas related to environment or any emerging area impinging on technology, innovation in regard to environment and climate change.

Who are eligible?

• Any recognized academic / research institution /government organization / government undertaking having at least 3 years experience of working in environment related subjects.
• Any registered voluntary / professional organization / trust having proven credential, and 3 years experience in environmental field and registered under the Societies Registration Act for minimum three years and raising audited accounts.
• The coordinator should be a permanent faculty/ regular staff/ office bearer of the institution/organization in the State.

Thrust areas

The proposals for financial assistance should have focus on environmental issues and/or raising public awareness of the environment. The programme shall be implemented based on specific themes decided upon by DoECC each year.

Procedure of Applying the Scheme

The institutions who wish to avail financial assistance under this programme should submit their proposal in the prescribed proforma through this web portal, along with necessary documents to The Director, Directorate of Environment and Climate Change, 4th Floor, KSRTC Bus Terminal Complex, Thampanoor, Thiruvananthapuram-695001.

Scrutiny of proposals and approval

The screening of the proposals will be done in two stages.
Stage 1:
In this stage, the respective section of DoECC will cross check the proposals in terms of eligibility criteria, experience and other conditions given in the guidelines.
Stage 2:
The DoECC has constituted an Internal Screening Committee for consideration of such proposals.The Committee shall consider those proposals, which are complete in all respect, keeping the following aspects in view while recommending the proposal(s) for financial assistance:

• The applicant organization has not received any grant under this programme during the financial year in which the proposed event falls. Financial assistance will not be provided more than once in a financial year, in the normal course.
• Application from Government Department / undertaking / academic / research institution has been duly forwarded by Head of the institution.
• In case of NGOs and other Professional Organizations, valid registration details of the organization and the last 3 year’s audited statements of accounts should be submitted.
• The proposals for financial assistance will be given depending on the quality of the proposal (the technical/scientific contents of the training programme, relevance, level of participation, target groups and numbers, etc), provided that previous grant, if any, released by DoECC to the applicant organization has been fully settled in terms of Expenditure Statement, Utilization Certificate, reports etc. The proposal should focus on topics relating to the main theme of the programme and organization should indicate the full details of key resource persons.