AUSAID has provided the following list of project activities that can receive funding support under the Human Rights Grant Scheme-2010-11:
Projects eligible for funding must:
(a) Aim to achieve one or more of the following objectives:
- prevent or end gross human rights violations such as (but not restricted to) extra-judicial and arbitrary killings; torture; human trafficking; restrictions on freedoms of thought/expression/association; abuses in the judicial system; systemic discrimination; mass evictions; forced displacement; denial of the right to education for girls; denial of the right to economic livelihoods for particular groups; or forced labour
- promote positive change in policies or actions of government or relevant non-state actors (including corporations, international institutions, non-government organisations) in the area of human rights
- monitor, seek redress for and/or report on human rights violations, including supporting victims of human rights abuses
- educate and/or train human rights victims, workers or defenders
- promote observance and implementation of international human rights standards, including through treaty ratification, domestic legislation and/or effective engagement with international and/or regional human rights institutions or mechanisms
- promote and strengthen national or regional human rights institutions or mechanisms
(b) demonstrate that the equal rights of women and men and girls and boys, underpin the project, in line with AusAID’s gender equality policy (see 2.2.5 below)
(c) be designed and delivered in accordance with human rights and community empowerment principles
(d) deliver concrete outcomes
(e) represent value for money.
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