Deadline: 12 May 2015 (Implementing and Adapting) & 22 July 2015 (Generating Ideas)
The Comic Relief International Grants for 2015 are opening soon. The Comic Relief funds organizations working among the disadvantaged population through its three types of funding approaches. The projects that are based on one of the five thematic areas – better futures, healthier finances, safer lives, stronger communities, and fairer societies – are considered for funding.
Goals of the Comic Relief grant funding are
- Women aged 15-49 and children under five have improved health
- Children and young people at risk are safer, with greater opportunities to increase their skills and life prospects
- Disadvantaged children and adults gain access to, and attain, a good quality of education
- People affected by HIV have an improved quality of life
- Women and girls are equal and respected members of society
- Poor people can improve their income through trade, enterprises and employment
- Slum dwellers have an improved quality of life
Organizations applying for funding must adhere to these goals, a project can target up to three of these goals.
Funding Approaches
- Generating Ideas: planning, consultation or developing an idea. These grants are designed to help organizations with limited resources and are only for small and diaspora organizations.
- Implementing & Adapting: testing out new approaches or adapting existing approaches. This could include proven approaches being applied in new contexts, or implementing entirely new approaches. Or, it may be about work that has been adapted to changing contexts, or applying what has been learnt from a previous phase of work.
- Achieving Scale: taking an approach to a scale where significant numbers of people will benefit and where the type of change is likely to be systemic. Systemic change is the type of change where organizations work with all the different actors and seek to change the system as a whole rather than just a single component of it.
Thematic Areas
- Better Futures : All work must demonstrate how it meets one or more of the following outcomes
- Better access to quality housing and access to affordable water and sanitation
- Increased uptake of primary healthcare services
- Improved quality of primary healthcare
- Improved access to good quality basic education and increased retention and attainment
- Improved access to good quality, relevant, non-formal education and training
- Healthier Finances : All work must demonstrate how it meets one or more of the following outcomes
- More secure tenure and management of land, housing and other assets
- Better working conditions and pay
- Increased and more secure incomes
- Greater resilience to environmental risks and shocks
- Safer Lives : All work must demonstrate how it meets one or more of the following outcomes
- Greater protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
- A reduction in risky sexual practices
- Integration of children and young people into safe and secure families and communities
- Safer working environments and protection from harmful work
- Stronger Communities : All work must demonstrate how it meets one or more of the following outcomes:
- Young people have greater confidence and skills, and a belief in their ability to improve their opportunities in life
- Organizations and their leaders are more effective in delivering on their mission and strategic goals
- People and organizations hold decision makers to account and take a greater role in decision making
- Women and girls and their organizations are influential in driving social change
- Fairer Society: All work must demonstrate how it meets one or more of the following outcomes:
- Greater equality between women and men, and girls and boys
- Laws and policies upholding and protecting the rights of citizens are enacted and implemented
- A reduction in stigma and discrimination
Note the Key Dates
- Cycle 4 for Implementing and Adapting grants will open for proposals on 1 April 2015 with the deadline of midday on 12 May 2015.
- Generating Ideas cycle will open on 1 June 2015 and deadline for proposals is midday on Wednesday 22 July 2015. Only small and diaspora organizations are eligible to submit a Generating Ideas proposal.
For more information, please visit Comic Relief International Grants.
