Deadline- 6 January 2014
Grant opportunity of up to US$1,000,000 has been announced by Global Partnership for Social Accountability. The mission of this program is to strengthening civil society’s capacities for social accountability by investing in CSOs’ institutional strengthening and through mentoring of small, nascent CSOs by well-established, larger CSOs with a track record on social accountability.
Objectives-
Addressing critical governance and development problems through social accountability processes that involve citizen feedback and participatory methodologies geared to helping governments and public sector institutions solve these problems. Special emphasis is put on problems that directly affect extreme poor and marginalized populations.
Eligibility & Criteria-
Eligible CSOs must comply with the following requirements-
- Have legal status in any of GPSA’s eligible (“opted-in”) countries. The applicant CSO is required to provide a copy of its legal status, including type of CSO and year of establishment. A copy of legal status of the partner CSO(s) that are included in an on-granting scheme must also be provided, if applicable.
- Use the CSO’s annual audited financial statements corresponding to such organization only (and not to any other partners or affiliates) as the basis for preparing the Proposal Budget.
- Have a bank account in the country where the CSO has legal status, and be authorized to receive grant funding directly from the World Bank, should the proposal be selected.
- Be able to have a representative from the CSO sign a grant agreement with the World Bank, should the proposal be selected.
- Proven track record: main applicant must provide evidence of its experience (at least 3-5 years) in the area of the call for proposals, and a vision matching the goals of the GPSA. To this end, applicant must provide (a) references about previous or ongoing projects related to the field of transparency, accountability and civic engagement, and (b) names of three persons that can provide references about the CSO’s performance. In the case of mentoring proposals, Mentor Organizations must comply with these requirements.
- Regional CSOs/networks are eligible for GPSA funding provided that they are legal entities in one of the opted-in countries.
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