The World Bank has announced a Call for Proposals to provide funding to NGOs under the Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA).
The GPSA is a coalition of donors, governments and civil society organizations (CSOs) that aims to improve development results by supporting capacity building for enhanced citizen feedback and participation. The GPSA will contribute to country-level governance reforms and improved service delivery. To achieve this objective, the GPSA provides strategic and sustained support to CSOs’ social accountability initiatives aimed at strengthening transparency and accountability.
The objective of the GPSA is to improve development results by supporting capacity building for enhanced beneficiary feedback and participation. The GPSA will contribute to country-level governance reforms and improved service delivery.
To achieve this objective, the GPSA will provide strategic and sustained support to beneficiary groups and civil society organizations (CSOs) in developing countries that are working with their governments, to promote greater transparency and accountability. Support will be provided on two fronts: funding and knowledge. Through a global grant competition, grants will be made available to CSOs for capacity building, research and knowledge dissemination, networking and programmatic activities related to social accountability in their country. The GPSA will make grants for periods of 3-5 years. The GPSA will also support a global platform for knowledge exchange and research, especially in measuring and documenting ‘what works’ in social accountability and the impact of social accountability interventions.
The GPSA will only operate in countries where the government agrees to ‘opt-in’ to the GPSA. The government opt-in process is ongoing in countries across the world. The countries that have formally opted in to date are:
- Bangladesh
- The Dominican Republic
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Kyrgyz Republic
- Malawi
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- The Philippines
- Tajikistan
- Tunisia
Once a country has opted in, multi-stakeholder consultations will be held to define country thematic priorities that CSO proposals for the country will need to address.
The deadline to apply is 14 March 2013. For more information, visit this link.
