Grants and Resources for NGOs in 2013

A list of grants and resources for the year 2013

Apply for Jay Jordan Early Career Development Fellowship Program!

Deadline: 12 February 2016

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and OCLC are seeking applications for the Jay Jordan IFLA / OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program to provide early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies.

Up to five individuals are selected each year for participation in this intensive four-week fellowship program based at OCLC’s headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA. The program gives fellows opportunities to meet with leading information practitioners and explore topics including information technologies, library operations and management, and global cooperative librarianship.

The fellows visit many libraries, cultural heritage institutions and library organizations. The fellows also observe OCLC’s governance structure in action, gaining insight into issues affecting the global library cooperative. Fellows give presentations about their home countries and libraries and discuss real-world solutions to the challenges facing libraries today.

Eligible Countries

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican, Republic Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Democratic People’s Public of Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, , Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Republic of Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua, New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Surinam, Swaziland, Syrian, Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Award Information

The award provides the following for each fellow:

Airfare, coach class, from the recipient’s home country to the United States and return trip to the recipient’s home country (transportation to and from the airport in the recipient’s home country is the responsibility of the award recipient). Note: All travel arrangements must be made through OCLC’s travel agency.
Transportation related to library visits (arranged by OCLC).
Lodging (arranged by OCLC).
Subsistence, including meals.
Medical insurance (arranged by OCLC).

Eligibility Criteria

Promising library and information science professionals who are in early stages of career development and who meet all of the qualifications are encouraged to apply.

Applicants must:

Be employed in a library or information center.
Have a qualifying degree in library or information science. The qualifying degree may vary depending upon country of origin, but should be the general library or information science degree recognized in the country. Normally a PhD is not considered a qualifying degree, because the Fellowship program is targeted for early career librarians.
Have obtained the qualifying degree between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2015.
Have at least three years, but no more than eight years, of library or information science For the 2017 program, applicants must have library or information science experience that begins no earlier than January 1, 2008 and no later than January 1, 2013.
Be a legal national from mentioned above countries and be working as a librarian or information science professional in that country.
Read and speak English proficiently.
Be prepared to work as a team member with other Fellows and to participate as required in this fast-paced program.
Have a valid passport.
Be able to obtain documentation permitting legal entry into the United States or any other country required for program participation.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply via given website.

For more information, please visit Early Career Development Fellowship .

Call for Proposals: Ending Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Turkana Kenya

Deadline: 16 November 2015

Terre des Hommes Netherlands is seeking proposals for “Ending Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Turkana Kenya” to support projects working on the same.

Whilst the Kenyan government has taken some positive and laudable steps to tackle CSEC through the 2013 -2017 National Plan of Action Against CSEC, a lot still remains to be done at different levels – family, community, national government and regional. The existence and continued growth of CSEC within Kenya has long been a cause for concern, in some areas more than others. CSEC is a major child protection issue and its link with economic growth and urbanisation cannot be ignored. Since decentralisation into county system started in 2013, a lot of towns in Kenya have grown exponentially; especially those hosting the county government head quarters.

Focus Areas

High poverty levels at household/family level: Poverty has been cited as the main contributing factor pushing children into CSEC. Interventions addressing household poverty can go a long way in both preventing at risk children as well as child victims of CSEC from relapsing back into CSEC after rescue and withdrawal.
Increased tolerance of negative cultural practices and negative community attitudes towards children (more so the girl child). The patriarchal nature of the African society places more value on boys and men therefore relegating girls and women making them more susceptible to abuse and exploitation.
Lack of effective implementation of legal and policy frameworks towards elimination of CSEC: Although policies and frameworks addressing CSEC have been developed, gaps remain in the implementation.
Limited budgetary allocation by governments in the region towards elimination of CSEC: There has been limited resource allocation by government to ensure full implementation of the NPA addressing CSEC, especially in relation to supporting recovery and reintegration of child victims of CSEC.
The private sector engagement: In Turkana this will be diverse ranging from transport, entertainment, fishing to the big oil exploration and extraction company. Although the oil company has been contributing towards education of children in the county, the secondary effects of their activities on children in relation to urbanisation requires active and consistent engagement to address vulnerability to CSEC especially in Lokichar.

Objectives

Children at risk of commercial sexual exploitation and children who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation claim their rights
Families and communities protect children from commercial sexual exploitation
Government protects children from commercial sexual exploitation by making and adequately implementing laws and policies
Law enforcement agencies convict perpetrators of commercial sexual exploitation of children
Civil society organisations protect the rights and best interest of children (specifically children vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation)
Private sector contributes to the wellbeing of children vulnerable to or victims of commercial sexual exploitation

Strategies

Children vulnerable to sexual exploitation participate in awareness raising sessions
Sexually exploited children are withdrawn, rehabilitated and reintegrated with their families and communities
Sexually exploited children receive education and training services and participate in income generating activities
Community-based child protection structures are supported and actively take part in protecting children from sexual exploitation
Members of judiciary and police staff are trained on child protection and child-friendly interview techniques.

Eligibility Criteria

The following urban areas in Turkana County, Kenya are eligible for funding: Lodwar, Kalokol and Lokichar towns.
TdH-NL is inviting non-governmental organisations (NGOs or CSOs) with the required framework to submit a full proposal.
This call is open to organisations to apply independently as well as in a consortium / in partnership (i.e. more than one applicant).
- Applicant as well as (if applicable) co-applicants need to be fully registered in the country of implementation.
- Applicant as well as (if applicable) co-applicants need to demonstrate a successful track record in addressing commercial sexual exploitation of children.
- The proposal needs to show a coherent programmatic approach.
- The proposed project needs to be based on the Theory of Change with related outcomes.

How to Apply

Interested applicants must submit their proposals at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit this link.

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Check Your Eligibility and the Application Procedure for Agriculture and Rural Development Support Programme!

Check Your Eligibility and the Application Procedure for Agriculture and Rural Development Support Programme below.

Eligibility Criteria

In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- be a legal person and;
- be registered agriculture producer or be a specific type of organisation such as: agro-food processing establishment and business entity and
- be registered and operational , , in Kosovo for the last three years (2012, 2013, 2014) and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
The applicant may act individually or with co-applicants.
Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant.
The applicant and its co-applicant may act with affiliated entities that include:
- Entities directly or indirectly controlled by an applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by an applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
- Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
- Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).

How to Apply

The application procedure consists of two phases:
- Concept Notes
- Full Application
In the first instance, only concept notes must be submitted. Thereafter, lead applicants who have been pre-selected will be invited to submit a full application.

For more information, please visit EU:Kosovo and download the guidelines.

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Journalism Special: Some Open Opportunities for Journalists Worldwide!

Journalism is one of the precise sector in todays world that is continuously contributing towards the development of world and people worlwide. It is the social activity that is concerned with the dissemination of news and views about the society whether its a depressing one or the greatest achievements among the world, connecting the entire world with a thread of knowledge.
Here are some open opportunities for journalists worldwide.
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Applications Open for the Next Round of Innovation in Development Reporting Grants!

Deadline: 2 March 2016

The European Journalism Centre(ELC) is inviting applicants for the next round of its Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Programme in order to advance creative reporting approaches, thus enabling a better coverage of international development issues.

The Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Programme was launched in January 2013 by the EJC with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project aims to reward quality journalism and advance a new and distinctive agenda for development coverage through awarding funding to a selection of state-of-the-art reporting projects of great impact and high visibility.

The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is a non-profit international foundation with the remit to improve, strengthen, and underpin journalism and the news media. This mission has two main aspects:

safeguarding, enhancing, and future-proofing quality journalism in Europe
supporting initiatives towards press freedom in emerging and developing countries.

Eligible Countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Grant Information

Applicants must apply for a minimum grant of €8,000.

Eligibility Criteria

Journalists and relevant* media outlets that target audiences in one or more of the nine European countries mentioned above are eligible to apply
The stories can be published in any of the official languages of the admissible countries.
Journalists, media outlets and freelancers not based in the countries mentioned above are ONLY eligible to apply as cooperation partners of admissible organisations.
Projects are required to address by theme, style, and presentation the general public, or large audience segments, or must effectively leverage important multipliers.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit Innovative Development Reporting Grants.

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European Foundations Award for Responsible Research & Innovation

Deadline: 7 December 2015

Applications are invited for European Foundations Award for Responsible Research & Innovation. The European Foundations Award for Responsible Research & Innovation has been launched with the aim of celebrating excellent research practices (i.e. research projects and programmes) in which the process requirements of RRI (e.g. eligibility and assessment criteria) have successfully been integrated throughout the research process. This award will provide an opportunity to explore, articulate and share promising responsible research practices across Europe.

Grant Available

Three awards will be offered, each worth €20,000.

Eligibility Criteria

Universities, research centres, individual researchers, research consortia, civil society organizations and any other type of organization involved in a responsible research practice may apply.
Research conducted solely by for-profit organizations is not eligible.
As participant, you must meet all of the following criteria:
- Your scientific research project or research programme addresses a responsible research practice and is conducted by a university, research centre, industry, civil society organization or other type of organization.
- Your research coordinator must be located in the European Research Area.
- Your research must be on-going or have been finalised not earlier than 2013.
- Your coordinator of the research and his/her team must agree to participate in a case study analysis if short-listed by the Award Committee.
- Your research team endorses the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.

How to Apply

Applicants must fill the online application form through the website.

For more information, please visit Foundations Award.

UNESCO: Submit Proposals to Map and Assess the Environmental and Health Impacts of Abandoned Mines in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Deadline: 31 December 2015

UNESCO is currently inviting researchers to submit proposals for projects examining the various aspects of the environmental and health impacts of mining activities in sub-Saharan African countries, with special focus on abandoned mines.

This research is open to scientists from various fields including geoscientists, environmentalists, biologists, medical scientists, and social scientists; they are requested to look into various aspects of the environmental and health impacts of mining activities in sub-Saharan African countries with focus on abandoned mines.

Program Objectives

To understand how past, present and future mining activities negatively affect ecosystems and health of the adjacent communities. This includes the mapping of present distribution of abandoned mine sites in the country and field works on targeted mine sites to assess the potential threats on environment (soil, surface and ground water, vegetation and crops) as well as animal and communities living around the mine sites).
To identify, through experimentation, the most appropriate rehabilitation technologies and remedial actions for sites contaminated by trace metals from mining. This project intends to have a special focus on phyto-rehabilitation.
To use science-based evidences to influence policies on issues of abandoned mines. It is important that local stakeholders (government officials, mining enterprises and local communities, and interested NGOs and associations) are involved and support the project, and facilitate the implementation of the outcomes. Policy Briefs to decision-makers and other interested stakeholders are expected to be an important outcome of the proposal dealing with this objective.

Funding Available

Each selected project will receive a two-year funding, of maximum 10,000 USD per year.

Eligibility Criteria

Projects with special attention to youth and female in the mining sector are also welcomed.
This programme intends to cover as much possible countries in sub-Saharan Africa and various types of mines
Be a PhD, a postdoc student, a young scientist under 10 years of PhD, or an engineer in the mining sector;
Have an ongoing research project on at least one of the theme of the project (the grant does not intend to fund a project not yet started); or have received the UNESCO-Sida funding during the scoping phase in 2013;
Demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach;
Demonstrate a strong implementation partnership links inside and outside Africa;
Demonstrate active involvement of stakeholders (e.g., geological survey, department of Mines, environmental body, mining companies, or NGOs and associations) in formulating the research question, in implementing the project, and in using the outcomes of the research.
Have the project endorsed by the home institution of the lead applicant;
Have the project endorsed by the relevant stakeholder interested by the outcomes of the project.

How to Apply

Applicants must fill the template proposal form available on the website.
Selection will take place in February 2016 and successful applicants will be informed by early March 2016.

For more information, please visit UNESCO.

The Women’s Foundation Nepal: Support for Women in Nepal

The Women’s Foundation Nepal is a non-profit and non-governmental organization helping women and children in Nepal who are victims of violence, abuse and poverty. WFN was established in 1988 by a group of professional Nepalese women.

Foundation’s Objectives

Shelter Home & support: To provide a safe Shelter Home, which provides all needs
Access to education/training: To provide survivors of violence or abused women and children with access to kindergarten, school and university education as well as various skills training and empowerment programs.
Leverage self-dependent business: To enhance access to micro-credits and to promote local business and savings schemes for women.
Equal rights: To work toward the elimination of gender bias in laws, rules and regulations and to lobby for equal participation for women at all levels of government and decision-making.

Focus Issues

Domestic violence
Sexual abuse
Property rights
Divorce
Witch hunting
Child marriage
Child labour & education

Achievements

Shelter Homes: Three Shelter Homes housing in total more than 120 children and more than 30 women
Child Care Centres: Two centres, one in Jhapa in the eastern part of Nepal and the other in Kathmandu caring for between 40 and 60 children aged 1 to 6 years
Non-violent school: Teaching over 450 children up to 10th grade
Micro-Credits in 2013: 235 women (in total 3000 women)
300 trained Trainers in the Vocational Training for Nepalese Rural Women Program who go on to teach almost 1000 women in each of their respective districts
Legal assistance (mediation & lawsuits): over 300 cases yearly
Scholarships: more than 1000 in total
Support of poor, mentally sick, disabled families: more than 500 in total

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Channel Foundation Grants-Ending Violence Against Women and Protecting Women Human Rights Defenders

Applications are accepted through Invitations only

The Channel Foundation promotes leadership in women’s human rights around globe by supporting organizations engaged in combating gender inequality. The foundation identifies and provides grants to organizations or projects that specifically champion women’s rights. It creates opportunities in order to ensure that women’s rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled.

The foundation envisions a world where women and girls have full access to the information, resources, training, and employment opportunities to overcome social, legal and economic barriers thus participating in decision making. Since 2006, Channel has sought to identify and provide grants to organizations or projects that specifically champion women’s rights.

Areas of interest

Ending violence against women and protecting women human rights defenders
Ensuring women’s participation in conflict resolution and peace building
Advancing Indigenous women’s rights and leadership
Securing reproductive rights/justice
Overcoming legal inequality (including inheritance and resource rights)
Promoting media reform and gender equality
Women’s leadership and human rights institutes

Focus Countries

Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Congo DR, Guatemala, Haiti, Malaysia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Sri Lanka, Uganda, United States.

Examples of Past Projects

Channel has made two grants to Peace is Loud in 2012 and 2013 for the purposes of supporting international grassroots outreach and engagement around the Screening Series-in-a-Box Campaign for the Women, War and Peace films.
Population, Poverty and Gender Equity – Global Fund for Women, Grassroots International, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH) and Women Waging Peace.
Indigenous people’s rights projects to support the recognition of the rights of women to self-determination and equal power within tribal community.
Human Rights projects – Grassroots Global Justice, Middle East Children’s Alliance, Ustawi and Veterans for Peace.

Eligibility Criteria

Organisations from the mentioned countries working to advance women rights are eligible to apply.
Individuals, service delivery projects, programs that promote religious beliefs and capital campaigns or electoral campaigns will not be funded.

How to apply

New proposals by applicants are considered by invitation only. Unsolicited proposals will not be accepted.

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2016-17 Fellowships on Violence and Non-Violence by Mahindra Humanities Center

Deadline: 1 December 2015

The Mahindra Humanities Center is inviting applicants for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of violence and non-violence.

The Mellon seminar, in which the postdoctoral fellows play a central role, explores a different dimension of the interrelationship between violence and non-violence—as disciplinary formation, historical event, ideological or ethical discourse—each year. The seminar will focus on slow violence in 2016-17.

The Center intend to focus on practices and processes of violence involved in large-scale historical and political transformations. The ongoing, incremental processes of slow violence may be manifested in the degradation of social and economic structures, the violation of cultural forms and practices, and the fraying of ethical and political systems. Slow violence endangers the security and sustainability of the quality of life.

Objectives

To study violence/non-violence in a comparative global context to advance the knowledge of their complex relationship and with a view to understanding the role played by violent and non-violent engagements in different historical, cultural, and political contexts.
To provide an occasion for a pedagogical inquiry into the construction of knowledges of violence/non-violence relative to the scholarly disciplines—to consider the double movement by which disciplines are both compelled to conserve their authority and impelled by historical and institutional change to open up to emergent, interdisciplinary forms of knowledge.

Benefits

Fellows will receive stipends of $65,000, individual medical insurance, moving assistance of $1,500, and additional research support of $2,500.

Focus Areas

environment
labor practices
human rights
privacy and security
migration
citizenship
civil society
cultural transmission
secularism
fundamentalisms

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants for 2016-17 fellowships must have received the PhD after May 2013. Applicants without the PhD must demonstrate that they will receive the PhD in or before August 2016

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply online via official website.

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USAID/Jordan: Jordan Partnerships Program

Deadline: 20 September 2016

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking concept papers from qualified U.S. and Non-U.S. organizations to fund a program entitled- Jordan Partnerships Program.

This USAID/Jordan’s desire is to partner with the private sector, including for-profit as well as not-for-profit entities, and provides a pathway for potential partners to engage with USAID/Jordan.

Objectives

USAID/Jordan’s goal for the 2013 – 2017 strategy periods is to improve prosperity, accountability, and equality for a stable, democratic Jordan. This goal will be achieved through the following three development objectives (DOs) and a special development objective (SDO):

Broad-based, inclusive economic development accelerated
Democratic accountability strengthened
Social sector quality improved
Gender equality and female empowerment enhanced

Funding Information
USAID intends to provide $20 million in total USAID funding over a three year period. The ceiling for this program is $20 million.

Eligibility Criteria

U.S. and non-US organizations may participate
All partners must be legally recognized entities under applicable law. Individuals are not eligible.
USAID welcomes applications from organizations which have not previously received financial assistance from USAID.
Applicants must have established financial management, monitoring and evaluation processes, internal control systems, and policies and procedures that comply with established U.S. Government standards, laws, and regulations.

How to Apply

The application process consists of two phases-
- Concept Paper
- Full Application
Interested applicants must submit their concept paper electronically at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit grants.gov and download the full announcement of the opportunity.