Call for proposals: Protecting the Rights of Religious Minorities in South/Southeast Asia, Local & National Pilot projects on Preventing or challenging rights violations/discriminations (closing date: 15 January)
Submission Process
Please send the completed application documents (application form and budget) to forbgrants@mrgmail.org by 15 January 2021. In your email subject line please write “application: the name of your organization and the country you are based in (i.e application – Organization’s name – Country).
Objective
Minority Rights Group is seeking proposals for local projects that work toward supporting the rights of religious minorities and/or promoting and protecting the right to freedom of religion and belief in the following countries: Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand. Proposals must seek to prevent or challenge freedom of religion and belief rights violations or discrimination against religious minorities.
Projects must pilot innovative approaches at the local and national level. Potential areas of approach can include:
- Advocacy: Lobbying authorities, conducting research to inform reporting, producing evidence/reports for advocacy.
- Capacity building: Trainings and workshops to develop the ability of communities to organise and protect their human rights as religious minorities.
- Government accountability: Community-local authority problem solving workshops and dialogues, monitoring service delivery to all, legal aid initiatives.
- Conflict management: Monitoring conflict and community tension, actions relating to identified drivers of conflict, dialogue with local authorities, research into conflict drivers and ways to reduce impact.
- Peace-building: Intercommunity projects; arts, education or sports projects; intercommunity dialogues, problem-solving initiatives.
- Law: Trainings including paralegal and rights training, legal support initiatives.
- Covid-19 Impact research: Monitoring and documentation of government & non-state actors’ response to Covid-19 and its impact on religious minorities and advocacy for how minority rights can be better protected.
Criteria for Applicants
- Be a non-governmental or community-based organisation working on related issues.
- Have an established track record of similar work in one or more of the project countries.
- Have an organisational bank account.
- Be committed to peaceful resolution of conflict and must not be engaged in or support in any way violent or separatist activities
- Be committed to involving all ethnic and/or religious communities in your broader activities.
Terms of Reference
- Projects can be a maximum of 5,000 Euros.
- Projects must be implemented between March and August 2021. The project duration is maximum 6 months.
Project Selection Criteria
- Innovative projects that pilot new approaches to promoting and protection religious minority rights.
- Clear project objectives with concrete outcomes & outputs.
- Clearly justified budget that represents value for money.
- Clearly identified target beneficiaries and plan to reach those beneficiaries and advocacy targets effectively.
- Projects that address gender issues, pay attention to multiple forms of discrimination, and include vulnerable groups in project implementation and/or organisational structure.
- Projects that encourage effective collaboration with other CSOs.
Anticipated Timeline
- 14 December 2020: Call for Applications released
- 15 January 2021: Application deadline
- 1 February 2021: Successful applicants notified
- 1 March 2021: Start of Activities
- 31 August 2021: Completion of Activities
- 15 September 2021: Final narrative and financial reports due.
Youth Solidarity Fund 2020
Application guidelines for the Youth Solidarity Fund can be found below (click the link below to expand the text, or click here to download the Guidelines as a PDF). Please read the guidelines carefully before applying.
Deadline: The application deadline is Sunday, 31 January 2021, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in New York.
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Womanity Award (4th round) to prevent Domestic Violence against Women and Girls
Deadline: 31 January 2021
Nominations are now open for the 4th round of the Womanity Award to find innovative programmes to prevent domestic violence against women and girls.
First launched in 2014, the Womanity Award works to surface innovative solutions to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) from around the world. It focuses on the power of collaboration to address the root cause of VAWG. Approximately every two years, they select a pair of organisations in the Global South who then work together for three years.
One of these is the Innovation Partner (IP) who has an innovative evidence-based approach to prevent violence against women and girls. They support them to help them increase their reach by adapting their programme in partnership with another organisation. The other organisation is the Scale-Up Partner (SP) who receives support to adapt and deliver the tried-and-tested innovation in their own location. Both organisations share knowledge and learn from each other through a partnership based upon balanced power and mutual respect. The Womanity Foundation has launched three rounds of the Womanity Award to date. Each of them has focused on a different theme related to violence against women and girls. These have included engaging men and boys, online violence and women’s safety in public spaces.
Eligibility Criteria
Ø You must be based in the Global South. The Innovation Partner and Scale-Up Partner should be from different countries.
Ø You must be a legal, registered organisation.
Ø The Innovation and Scale-Up Partners must have a partnership agreed in principle to adapt a programme focused on the prevention of domestic violence against women and girls in the country where Scale-Up Partner is based.
Ø You must be able to communicate in English for both the selection process and implementation if selected. (They recognise that this may limit many organizations from taking part in the process, but unfortunately, they don’t have the structure to select and to manage projects in different languages for the time being)
Ø A desirable but not mandatory criteria is to have a diverse board and senior leadership with equal/fair representation of women.
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Submit your Concept Note and apply for funding now!
The 4th Call for Proposals is now open until Friday, 29 January 2021, 23:59 CET.
Please submit your project concept to the ISF via info@insuresilience-solutions-fund.org.
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a holistic approach on disaster relief and preparedness seems more vital than ever in order to compensate (in-)direct effects on economic development and growth of ODA countries. Thus, the ISF especially welcomes project concepts targeting the sectors most vulnerable to effects of the pandemic, such as critical infrastructure, emergency relief and financial support of (M)SMEs.
All documents relevant for the application process and further guiding documents are published here.
Q&A sessions January 2021
The ISF will host two Q&A sessions on Thursday, 14 January 2021, 3 - 5pm CET, and Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 10am - 12pm CET. The ISF will give insight into the mandate of the ISF, the eligibility and funding criteria, the application process and timeline for the 4th Call for Proposals, and answer questions with regard to these topics or other questions related to a potential application.
Interested parties wishing to attend are asked to kindly confirm their interest for either of the two sessions via info@insuresilience-solutions-fund.org, and provide name(s) and respective organisation(s) of the participant(s) by 8 January 2021.
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