2018

04 Jan
by sofia
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Dear all, Happy New Year, Feliz Año Nuevo, Bonne Année, Feliz Ano Novo!
To start the year, we thought of sending our first FSMBO notification with a list of opportunities that are currently open or that will be announced soon.
Wishing everyone a joyful, healthy and successful 2018!

2018 OPEN CALLS

A. OSIWA Call for Proposals: Inviting Local Organizations based in West Africa
http://www.osiwa.org/grants/

Proposals will be accepted until May 30th 2017

The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) funds local organizations based in West Africa to support the creation of open societies in West Africa marked by functioning democracy, good governance, and the rule of law, basic freedoms, and widespread civic participation. Its headquarters is in Dakar and it has offices in Abuja, Monrovia, Freetown and Conakry.

OSIWA only supports innovative interventions with effective strategies that respond to the broader deep-seated political, justice and socio-economic roadblocks to open society in West Africa.

Themes: Economic Governance and Advancement; Justice Reform and Rule of Law; Journalism; Equality and Anti-Discrimination; Democratic Practice

Eligibility Criteria:

  • OSIWA primarily awards grants to local organizations based in West Africa. In rare and limited circumstances, it provides support to West Africa-based international organizations with a strong commitment to transfer knowledge to local groups they partner with. It provides grants to government institutions as well as regional and sub-regional organizations working in its core priority areas.
  • OSIWA requires all organizations seeking funding to submit a complete proposal, budget, and other relevant documents including leadership information (list of Board members, trustees and management staff who will be involved in the project), proof of registration and banking details. Applications that are not submitted with all the relevant documentation may be delayed.

 

B. Visegrad Fund's Three Grants Program
http://visegradfund.org/grants/visegrad-grants/

Deadline: 01 February 2018 (all)

The International Visegrad Fund is an international organization based in Bratislava founded by the governments of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries—the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Republic of Poland, and the Slovak Republic—in Štiřín, Czech Republic, on June 9, 2000.

The purpose of the fund is to facilitate and promote and promoting the development of closer cooperation among citizens and institutions in the region as well as between the V4 region and other countries, especially in the Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership regions.

Visegrad Grants offer funding for organizations from the Visegrad countries (V4) and worldwide fostering regional cooperation between the V4 countries and projects advancing innovativeness and sustainability in Central and Eastern Europe.

Focus Areas: Culture and common identity; Education and capacity building; Innovation, R&D, entrepreneurship; Democratic values and the media; Public policy and institutional partnerships; Regional development, environment and tourism; Social development
Visegrad+ Grants support projects which contribute to the democratization and transformation processes in selected countries and regions, espe-cially non-EU member states in the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership countries.

Priority Areas

  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Rural development
  • Good governance
  • Legislation and justice
  • Communication, media and access to information
  • Development of civil society/support of human rights and minorities

Strategic Grants support project proposals addressing annual strategic priorities of the Visegrad Group. Strategic Grants are designed for longer project duration (12–36 months), offer higher financial support (ca. €40,000 on average per project), and are recommended for more experienced grantees.

 

APPLICATIONS THAT WILL OPEN SOON:

1. Co-Impact
http://www.co-impact.io/

Co-Impact is a global philanthropic collaborative for systems change focused on improving the lives of millions of people around the world. It will invest $500 million with the goals of advancing education, improving people’s health, and providing economic opportunity so that all people, no matter where they live, have a more hopeful future.

Grants will be up to $50 million over several years, and will go to initiatives with proven leaders and results which are poised to scale even further. Fund will support things such as strategic planning, program management, technology, policy and advocacy, government relations, monitoring and evaluation, and leveraging additional funding. Priorities – health, education, and economic opportunity initiatives that deliver enduring results for millions of people

WHAT THEY FUND: Initiatives that are poised to achieve breakthrough results at a national or regional level. Rather than scaling the direct service work of individual NGOs, we support systems-change plans that are designed and executed with partners critical to long-term success at scale, including community groups, government, other NGOs, and the private sector.

Co-Impact is not accepting unsolicited proposals at the moment but they intend to open process in the near future.

You can send a message or ideas in site.

 

2. Humanitarian Grand Challenge: Seeking Solutions from Innovators with Bold Ideas
https://humanitariangrandchallenge.org/

The Founding Partners, the U.S. Agency of International Development through the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Grand Challenges Canada, are designing and implementing a Humanitarian Grand Challenge, which will identify, support, and transition to scale innovations that enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian assistance.

The Humanitarian Grand Challenge will bring global attention and resources to specific, well-defined international humanitarian problems and will provide a platform for leading donors, investors, and private sector partners to develop, support, and grow innovative approaches to solve them.

The Humanitarian Grand Challenge will focus on a single grand challenge and will seek solutions from innovators with bold ideas.

 

3. Mama Cash: Supporting Women's, Girls’ and Trans Rights Groups Worldwide
https://www.mamacash.org/en/apply-for-a-grant-1

Mama Cash supports more than a hundred courageous women's, girls’ and trans rights groups worldwide.

Mama Cash supports women, girls and trans people who fight for their rights. Activists who tirelessly and fearlessly make their voices heard. Who criticise oppressive or restrictive norms and practices, and lobby for fair laws. Who demand their political and economic rights, and insist on bodily autonomy.

Themes

  • Body
  • Money (economic justice): Labour rights, Environmental justice
  • Voice: Accessing and Redistributing Power–Political Participation; Shifting Stereotypes through Arts and Media

Eligibility Criteria

  • Mama Cash supports groups and initiatives that:
  • Work from a feminist and/or women’s rights perspective
  • Are self-led by the women, girls and/or trans people they serve
  • Have the promotion of women’s, girls’ and/or trans people’s human rights as their primary mission, and not just as the focus of part of their programmes o Push for structural and fundamental change
  • Focus on issues that are under-addressed and/or contested

 

4. South Asia Women’s Fund: Leading from the South Programme
http://sawf.info/index.php?r=whatWeDo/grantMaking

The next call for applications will be out in October 2018.

The South Asia Women’s Fund (SAWF) was founded in 2004 to support women’s rights groups and activists in the South Asian countries of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.

Leading from the South is a programme resourced by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It supports activism devised, implemented, and led by women’s rights organisations in the global South. The fund is being implemented by four women’s funds in the global South, of which South Asia Women’s Fund is the implementing fund in the Asia region. Women’s rights organisations in 18 countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam) are eligible to apply for this programme under three grant categories.

Grant Categories

  • Frontline Defenders Grants (small-size grants) are focused on strengthening direct implementers working at the community and sub-national level who are frontline defenders and mobilisers of the women's rights movements.
  • Amplifying Voices Grants (medium-sized grants) are focused on supporting the work of mid- sized national and sub-regional organisations and networks working on policy and law advocacy for state accountability as well as on campaigning.
  • Promoting Regional Feminist Agenda Grants (large-size grants) are focused on strengthening cross-national, sub-regional and regional level groups and networks undertaking capacity and knowledge building as well as advocacy for state accountability.

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