Deadline: Ongoing
The Arab Human Rights Fund is calling applications for small grant to support all human rights issues in the Arab region. The AHRF grant-making program will strive to provide long-term, sustainable support to the region’s human rights actors while simultaneously pursuing thoughtful, timely interventions to meet emerging needs on the ground.
The Fund will award grants up to $40,000 per grant and not per grantee. The Fund will also make multi-year grants for up to three years. The Fund recognizes the difficulties faced by many human rights defenders in securing funds to cover basic operational costs or to invest in capacity building schemes. Thus, AHRF will award grants to support the institutional capacities of the groups (e.g. developing strategies, setting up policies and procedures, etc.). Additionally, it will provide core (operational) support to help groups maintain their core activities or secure part of their running costs.
Grantees can be:
- Non-governmental human rights organizations, networks, and coalitions
- Human rights programs and initiatives by other actors’ i.e. local development and other civil society groups, educational institutions, national human rights institutions, duty bearers, professional associations…etc.
- Nascent civil society organizations
- Well-established civil society organizations with a demonstrated record of outreach to emerging actors
- Informal groups that show potential to carry out important initiatives
- Organizations and individuals carrying out human rights work in enforced exile
- Individuals working in the public sphere (on a case-by-case basis).
Eligibility Criteria
The Fund will make grants to support human rights work in the Arabic-speaking region and Arabic-speaking communities in adjacent countries.
How to Apply
All interested applicants are invited to register with the Fund’s Grants Portal. Through this portal you can submit a grant request, track your grant, monitor the status of grant payments, and submit reports.
The Fund accepts grant requests submitted only through its Grants Portal.
For more information, visit AHRFund.
