Supporting specialist change-makers to build a regenerative future for displaced people To support expert regenerative change-makers in the global south to expand the impact and influence of regenerative approaches to displacement. Amount available: £6,000 stipend to be spent over one year. Number of grants awarded: 1 (from December 2026). Deadline for applications: 22nd November 2026 Amplifying Your Impact Rather than funding a specific new project, this grant is designed to support an individual expert change-maker who lives and works in the Global South with people who have been displaced. Our goal is to boost your influence, expand the awareness of regenerative approaches to displacement, and help you scale the high-quality work you are already doing. We will be awarding one grant of £6,000, which will serve as a stipend to be spent over the course of one year, starting in December 2026. These funds are flexible and can be used for: Sharing your time and expertise people who need it Hosting local community activities, participatory workshops, and grassroots knowledge-sharing events. Covering travel and logistics to engage with local, regional, or international networks and decision-makers. Monitoring, evaluating, and publishing project reports or learning resources. Expected Outcomes We are looking for leaders who are ready to share their regenerative work across multiple levels: Local Impact: Increasing grassroots participation in regenerative practices and improving the quality of existing work by connecting local groups with specialist advice. Regional Influence: Establishing sustained dialogue and hosting events with local and regional decision-makers to encourage the broader adoption of regenerative solutions. International Visibility: Representing Re-Alliance and sharing insights at international conferences, or through published articles and online knowledge-sharing events. Future Funding: Identifying and applying for future funding opportunities in partnership with grassroots groups, local leaders, and regional bodies. Who Should Apply? To qualify for this grant, you must: Live and work in the Global South. Have proven knowledge, expertise, and a track record of successful past practice in your chosen regenerative field. Demonstrate that your work is high-quality, relevant to your region, and directly impacts refugee or internally displaced communities. Show an established, collaborative, and empowering approach to teaching and working. Justify the potential for sharing your practices regionally and articulate a viable plan to achieve the grant's outcomes How to Apply Please submit a one or two page expression of interest that includes: Confirmation and evidence showing how you meet the qualification criteria. It should include hyperlinks that prove your experience like project reports or media, qualifications, testimonials, or references. A clear, viable one-year action plan with expected activities and estimated costs to achieve the grant's expected outcomes. Submission Details: Email your application to: soilcircle@re-alliance.org. Subject line: ‘Specialist Application from (your name)’. Deadline: 22nd November 2026 See the further details here:

Upscaling and Integrating Regeneration Grant Funding for Grassroots Organisations Closing Date 20th October 2026 £13,625 GBP Re-Alliance is offering a £13,625 GBP grant to support a grassroots organisation in a displacement setting to integrate new regenerative approaches into their existing work. This single grant, awarded from late November 2026 and spanning one year, provides funding for project implementation and sharing your impact with influential leaders in your region. Applications are open until October 20th, 2026. To qualify, your organisation must be based in a global South country, have a registered bank account or fiscal sponsor and demonstrate proven experience doing regenerative work alongside displaced communities such as IDPs or refugees. Applications will be strongly prioritised if they are: Led by IDPs, refugees, women, or members who live and work within the affected community. Operating within Asia or the MENA region. Focused on approaches that empower agency and foster community participation. Submitted by existing members of Re-Alliance or other regenerative networks who have not previously received funding from Re-Alliance. Your proposal must focus on designing a new regenerative project that clearly benefits and involves your community. Importantly, your project cannot duplicate topics already covered by Re-Alliance publications. While you can integrate with these existing concepts, avoid proposing projects focused on any of the topics covered by our publications (follow the link to see a full list). How to Apply Submit a one-page concept note outlining how you will use the funds to: Design a new regenerative project that fosters community ownership. Host a funded event or meeting to share your project and learnings with influential regional organisations or government bodies. Collaborate with Re-Alliance to produce educational materials in a media format that suits your organisation. Your application must include a timeline and an estimated budget table breaking down costs like staff time, materials, and labour. Feel free to include links within the document to support your track record. Email your complete application to soilcircle@re-alliance.org with the subject line "Upscaling Application from [name of your organisation]" before the 20th October 2026 deadline. See the further details here:

Aerial photograph of the site in Rubondo where a participatory masterplan process has been undertaken with 20 refugee families Over the past 18 months Re-Alliance has been working with partners YICE Uganda and Bassattu Innovations in Nakivale, Uganda, and an advisory team drawn from those with significant expertise in masterplanning and refugee settlements, to support a participant-led design process with a group of 20 families in need of homes. The families were selected from a list of ‘Persons of Concern’ drawn up by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) who manages the Nakivale refugee camp, and consisted of families with a person with a disability or a single parent vulnerable household in particular need of support. Our community engagement worker, employed by YICE visited all families on the list to select those who had interest and motivation, to be part of a self designed settlement. The task was not easy. While there was strong interest among families the demands of the project were significant, and involved close involvement with a series of workshops to survey the site and engage with the principles of settlement planning. It was, and remains an ambitious pilot, looking into: How far local people can and wish to plan their own settlement and their own houses What a regenerative, closed loop settlement might look like that recycles waste, reuses materials, and conserves water to grow food Whether we could support from a distance, offering technical advice online and with minimal involvement on the ground The extent to which local planning authorities would allow innovations and their interest in learning from them to inform other settlement designs. By the spring of 2025 a final list was drawn up, the site identified, and the members of the advisory team assembled. These included Arup, the international consultancy firm, who provided pro bono support from their London and Nairobi office in masterplanning, landscape and participatory design Two representatives from the Ennead lab, an architect's firm in the US who, in 2016 wrote ‘Re-thinking Refugee Communities’ a guide to Masterplanning, used by the UN and updated with support from Re-Alliance in 2025 to include a regenerative lens A core member of the team who wrote ‘Sphere Unpacked’ Nature Based Solutions for Climate Resilience in Humanitarian Action A member of ‘The Office for Repair’ a Community of Interest design think tank who work with spatial design on the frontlines of climate concerns. Throughout the past year, Arup have led from a distance training local facilitators to run co-design workshops with future settlement residents designed around Building a shared understanding of each other and the contributions of different groups and individuals; Exploring participants daily lives, needs and their future aspirations; Translating insights into shared visions for the future settlement and emerging objectives to inform the masterplan Exploration of regeneration and the importance of inclusion, participation and co-design; Participatory mapping of existing local ecological, economic and social systems including resources and surrounding land uses; The environmental conditions of the site, including the soil conditions, wind directions, sun path, water flows and environmental risks and hazards; Community co-designing activities also included site constraints and opportunities mapping, settlement zoning and layout, housing design, water system management and community building. Naswirah and Ahmed from Bassattu help facilitate feedback from participants in a workshop Workshops included a visioning exercise to build a shared vision with participants using reference images and case study examples to help imagine a better life, their basic and most pressing needs and their aspirations.The participants undertook a co-mapping exercise to understand their daily patterns and a site assessment to survey the land, map environmental characteristics (movement of sun, prevailing winds, slopes and water systems, planting), human movement and infrastructure like water and energy utilities and identify the risks and hazards to be aware of. Participants also mapped waste and natural resources available onsite or in the surrounding area and those that could be easily purchased, the availability of water and use of surrounding land, all of which led to a zoning layout and the beginning of a masterplan design. The experience of working largely remotely to support local community groups to manage the design and construction of a settlement themselves has taught us all a lot about different needs and approaches and how to adapt complex language into simple actionable steps. It also showed how participants, who have received minimum schooling, have a strong spatial awareness of their environment and are able to interpret and construct maps of their surroundings. We found that OPM, while needing to uphold standards and protocols, were largely supportive and keen to learn, attending some of the workshops and engaging with the principles we were promoting. Two members of the Arup team, one from London and one from Kenya, made a single final visit to the site, co-leading the final design workshop and checking designs against the reality of the land. Finally we engaged a water engineer locally to work with a Water Engineer from Fluxus Ecological Designs to look closely at water availability and strategies for water retention. Water is a constant problem in many settlements, both securing a consistent supply during drought, managing drainage from WASH services and dealing with increasing incidents of flooding during rainy seasons. Combining some of the most recent thinking on regenerative water management with strong local knowledge enabled us to design tanks for storage, planting and grading strategies to minimise erosion and stabilise soils, make recommendations for toilets and adequate sanitation and include grey water recycling into the site design. participants add their local knowledge to the site analysis Arup put together a ‘Design Principles Playbook’ to support the grading process for grading the land and to guide the local team in the early stages of preparing the site for construction. The YICE and Bassatu teams have plans to build with rammed earth interlocking bricks while the Ennead team have been advising on designs that include maximum ventilation and heat cooling mechanisms. OfR are advising on foundations that stabilise buildings, which we intend to last beyond the short termism of refugee camps and offer residents long term homes. Future residents are already growing food, having harvested their first vegetables in May this year, well before they have even built their houses. An initial draft of the masterplan from Arup Our combined vision for a closed-loop regenerative settlement still only exists on paper, and the team are struggling with broken grading machines, delayed planning reports and the approaching rains. But construction is scheduled to begin any day now. Here is a short video by our community correspondent Rolande Asima in Nakivale showing the early project planning phases.

Discover the partnerships and programmes which are showcasing regeneration in action alongside communities. Projects & Partnerships Re-Alliance works alongside trusted partner organisations to co-create and implement regenerative projects throughout the world. Re-Alliance's role is usually in strategic design, project co-design and management, research, as well as producing educational materials, M&E, and disseminating information. See below for more information on some of our recent and current projects and collaborations. Special thanks to our generous funding partners from the public as well as Trusts and Foundations, including but not limited to Treebeard Trust , the JAC Trust and Lush Cosmetics. Regenerative Refugee Settlement in Nakivale Uganda Co-designing and building a Regenerative Settlement with 20 households in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda. + In partnership with: YICE Uganda, Arup, Re-Alliance Integrated Water Management Plan Designing & Implementing an Integrated Water Management plan in Nakivale Refugee camp, Uganda. + In partnership with: YICE Uganda and Fluxus Design Rubondo Integrated Settlement Masterplan Design A participatory master plan design process for a refugee settlement of 20 households. + In partnership with: Yice Uganda and Arup Creating Arborloo Composting Toilets Building eight Arborloo compost toilets in Nakivale, Uganda. + In partnership with: Unidos Social Innovation Centre Regenerative Camps and Settlements: Piloting Interventions Partnering with Re-Alliance members to showcase regenerative interventions in displacement contexts. + In partnership with: Re-Alliance Members Gardening in Small Spaces in Cox's Bazar Evaluating the impacts of home gardening in small refugee dwellings in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. + In partnership with: BASD; Asian University for Women Mobile Wind Power Community designed micro-wind turbines for camps and settlements. + In partnership with: School Of The Earth Growing Mushrooms in Reusable Buckets Minak Projects trialled mushroom growing in reusable, upcycled containers in a refugee settlement. + In partnership with: Minak Projects First Response to Trauma Psychosocial support and community building for trauma healing. + In partnership with: SACOD Building Wicking Beds in Tongogara Building water-saving growing beds in a water-scarce refugee settlement. + In partnership with: Fambidzanai Permaculture Centre Vermicomposting Toilets In Bekaa, Lebanon, Farms Not Arms built three vermicompost toilets for refugee families. These innovative toilets use worms to convert human waste into compost. + In partnership with: Farms Not Arms Urban rooftop garden in Al-Buriej Refugee Camp Growing food gardens on rooftops in Gaza, showcasing urban growing in places with limited access to land. + In partnership with: Gaza Urban & Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) Regenerative Urban Agriculture MOCGSE led a project focussed on supporting conflict-affected areas with regenerative urban agriculture demonstration and education. + In partnership with: Mount Oku Center for Gender and Socioeconomic Empowerment (MOCGSE) Regesoil: Community Composting Collective community composting sites in Nakivale Refugee Settlement. + In partnership with: Unidos Social Innovation Centre Ecosan Composting Toilets Urine diversion, dry composting toilets in a barrel, enriching soils for more nutrient-rich crops and healthier people. + In partnership with: YICE Uganda Reimagining Urban Ecosystems in Greece, with Sporos A community-led initiative transforming urban spaces in Greece into resilient, biodiverse ecosystems through regenerative design and education. + In partnership with: Sporos Regeneration Institute Building Treebogs in Kakuma Refugee Settlement FHE built several twin Treebog composting toilets in Kakuma Refugee Settlement. These are raised composting toilets which feed 'humanure' directly to perennial plant roots. + In partnership with: Farming & Health Education (FHE) Lime-Stabilised Soil Building in Cox's Bazar Disaster resistant eco-buildings made from locally sourced materials in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. + In partnership with: Bee Rowan & International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Non-Digital Communications for Capacity Building Analogue learning materials for regenerative food growing in refugee camps and settlements. + In partnership with: Kajulu Hills Ecovillages, Green Releaf Grey Water and Rain Water Harvesting for Food Growing in Syria Piloting Grey water and Rain water harvesting and irrigation for food growing in Syria. + In partnership with: Syrian Academic Expertise, Malteser International Re-Alliance Members' Film Collaboration Participatory filmmaking to share stories of regeneration in action. + In partnership with: Re-Alliance Members

Meet the team who support and facilitate the thriving Re-Alliance network of Regenerative practitioners. Meet the team Core Facilitation Team Correspondents Trustees Volunteers Directorship Ruth Andrade Chair of the Trustee Board Read More → Communications Team Ansiima Casinga Rolande Correspondent and Regenerative Settlements Storyteller Read More → Core Facilitation Team James Atherton Permaculture Lead, Communication & Storytelling Lead Read More → Communications Team Batata Boris-Kaloff Correspondent Read More → Directorship Gisele Henriques Trustee Read More → Core Facilitation Team Jackie Kearney Network & Membership Lead Read More → Directorship George McAllister Trustee and Safeguarding Focal Point Read More → Core Facilitation Team Mary Mellett Research, Content & Compliance Lead Read More → Directorship Peter Mellett Trustee Read More → Core Facilitation Team Juliet Millican Coordinator Read More → Directorship Geoff O'Donoghue Trustee and Finance Circle Read More → Core Facilitation Team Margaret Wightman Finance & Operations Manager Read More → Communications Team Sunjae Yun Research & Communications support Read More →

This illustrated guide explores how to establish composting at community scale, to build soil health, cycle 'waste', and grow community cohesion. < Back Community Composting This illustrated guide explores how to establish composting at community scale, to build soil health, cycle 'waste', and grow community cohesion. Donate to Re-Alliance Stay updated with our newsletter Download for free: English Español Português عربي Swahili Français