Deadline: 16 August 2015
In the framework of the European Union (EU) funded regional programme “MedCulture”, Minority Rights Group International, in partnership with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, the Civic Forum Institute Palestine, and Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies, is currently seeking proposals from civil society organizations for the advocacy section of the “Drama, Diversity and Development” project (DDD).
The DDD project is one of three culture projects funded by the EU within the regional programme “Medculture“. Med Culture’s ultimate goal is to pave the way towards the development of institutional and social environments that will confirm culture as vector for freedom of expression and sustainable development and to accompany partner countries in south of the Mediterranean in the development and improvement of cultural policies and practices related to the culture sector.
Selected projects, which will last 3 months, will receive grants between €3,000 and €7,000.
Grants will cover staff time, as well as direct costs (including potentially travel outside the target countries to, for example, Geneva or New York or an African Commission event if international advocacy is part of the project).
All applicant organisations must be currently registered in and must have been established (as demonstrated in the organisation’s statutes) in one of the project countries listed below. Definitions of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are complex and contested and are specific to each context. Possible indications of some relevant minorities per country is given in brackets after each country:
- Morocco (eg. Berber/Amazigh, Black Africans, religious minorities, refugees, migrants, and other similar groups)
- Algeria (eg. Berber/Amazigh, Black Africans, religious minorities, refugees, migrants, and other similar groups)
- Tunisia (eg. Berber/Amazigh, Black Africans, religious minorities, refugees, migrants, and other similar groups)
- Libya (eg. Berber/Amazigh, Toubou, Touareg, Black Africans, religious minorities, refugees, migrants, and other similar groups)
- Egypt (eg. Nubians, Bedouins, religious minorities, refugees, migrants, and other similar groups)
- Jordan (eg. refugees, Bedouins, Palestinians, religious minorities, and other similar groups)
- Lebanon (eg. refugees, Armenians, Palestinians, recognised and unrecognised religious minorities, and other similar groups)
- Palestine (eg. refugees, internally displaced people, religious minorities and others facing discrimination).
- Israel (eg. Arab Israelis, Palestinians, Bedouins, Druze and other similar groups)
- Syrian non-governmental organisations are also eligible to apply (although due to the current security context, this is likely to be for work with refugees outside Syria, but in another eligible programme country).
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