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Grants and Resources for NGOs in 2013

A list of grants and resources for the year 2013

Wild Asia Responsible Tourism Awards in 7 Categories to Promote Sustainable Tourism

Each year, the Wild Asia accepts applications from companies based in Asia for its Responsible Tourism Awards. Wild Asia’s Responsible Tourism Awards is one of the first tourism award in Asia specifically focused on sustainable tourism best practices.

Established by Wild Asia in 2006, this annual award aims to recognize accommodation operators who are making a positive difference in the destination where they operate by adopting sustainable management practices. The Awards are founded on international standards (the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria) and provide a unique opportunity for businesses, organisations, and destinations across the region to benchmark their operations against global criteria, and be assessed free of charge by renowned experts in the field.

Award Categories

This year, there are seven categories available:

  1. Best in Community Engagement & Development: This award recognizes exceptional commitment to supporting the local community and economy in which your business operates.
  2. Best in Cultural Preservation: This award recognizes engagement and efforts by tourism businesses in preserving, enhancing and promoting local cultures and heritage.
  3. Best in Protection of Natural Areas & Wildlife Conservation: This award recognizes tourism businesses’ consideration of their local environment and biodiversity by actively supporting and protecting their natural assets.
  4. Best in Resource Efficiency: This award recognizes excellence in waste, water and energy management and sustainable architectural design in order to minimize your business’s environmental impact.
  5. Most Inspiring Responsible Tourism Destination: This award recognizes the tourism destination that excels by taking into consideration all the key principles of responsible tourism (maximum positive impacts to the local community and minimum negative impacts to the environment) and awards innovation for the most inspiration destination of the year.
  6. Most Inspiring Responsible Tourism Initiative: This award recognizes grass-roots initiatives championing responsible tourism within their destination.
  7. Most Inspiring Responsible Tourism Operator: This award recognizes the tourism operator that excels by taking into consideration all the key principles of responsible tourism (maximum positive impacts to the local community and minimum negative impacts to the environment) and awards innovation for this most inspiring tourism business of the year.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Only companies based in Asia can enter.
  • Companies providing services in these regions, but not based within the region will not be considered.
  • Businesses currently contracting Wild Asia for consultancy services cannot apply.

Past Award Winners

2014

  • Best in Community Engagement and Development Award to Borneo Eco Tours, Malaysia who has been a pioneer in responsible nature tours since 1991. Two of their most popular destinations in which they operate includes the iconic Kinabatangan River, where guests can enjoy their award-winning Sukau Rainforest Lodge and Borneo’s famed primates, and Kudat, which provides opportunities for guests to visit and support cottage industries.
  • Best in Cultural Preservation Award to Ock Pop Tok, Laos. For the past 15 years they have been working to cultivate and preserve Laos’ textile heritage through sustainable tourism.
  • Most Inspiring Responsible Tourism Initiative Award to The ChildSafe Network who is helping to protect vulnerable children in tourism destinations across Cambodia and other parts of South East Asia.

2013

  • Best in Community Engagement and Development Award to Lisu Lodge, Thailand which is part of a community based project that aims to conserve the natural heritage of the hill tribes of northern Thailand.
  • Best in Cultural Preservation Award to Apani Dhani, India. Apani Dhani is based in the heart of Rajasthan. They offer eco-friendly accommodation, excursions and activities with locals such as cooking lessons, initiation to traditional arts and crafts.
  • Best in Resource Efficiency Award to Heritance Kandalama, Sri Lanka. Heritance Kandalama is based in the heart of the cultural triangle in Sri Lanka, built overlooking the rock fortress of Sigiriya. Endorsed by both ISO14001 and ISO50001 management systems for energy and water efficiency, they continuously achieve quantitative goals to reduce consumption.

How to Apply?

Applicants can download the application form from the website provided individually for each category and submit it via email.

Selected Finalists will be asked to provide supporting materials.

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Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards for Young Innovators around the World!

Deadline: 18 November 2015

The Unilever in partnership with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), and in collaboration with Ashoka, are inviting young innovators for Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards.

The Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards were launched in 2013 to inspire and support the innovation and creativity of young people who are responding to the greatest global challenges facing today.

Seven finalists will be announced in March 2016. All finalists will be required to join online sessions (Spring 2016) to develop their ideas and build their networks. Attendance is also required at the Accelerator Workshop in Cambridge, UK, and the awards Prize Event in London, UK, at which the Prince of Wales Prize will be awarded

Global Goals

The UN Global Goals for sustainable development are:

  •  No Poverty: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  •  Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Gender Equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Clean Water and Sanitation: Ensure availability and suitable management of water and sanitation for all
  • Affordable and Clean Energy: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all
  • Responsible Consumption and Production: Ensure responsible consumption and production patterns
  • Climate Action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Award and Prize Information

  • Seven young entrepreneurs will receive a total of €200,000 in funding and support to help take their sustainable solutions to the next level.
  • Six finalists will each receive cash prizes of €10,000, along with support and mentorship (worth €10,000).
  • One winner will receive a €50,000 cash prize and will be awarded the HRH.
  • The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize at an event in London in spring 2016 and €25,000 worth of support and mentoring.
  • The prize package includes funding, customised expert mentoring support, access to an online business development programme, a two-day accelerator workshop at the University of Cambridge, and networking with senior executives and sustainability leaders at Unilever’s headquarters.
  • All entrants will benefit from exposure to a range of leading sustainability experts, entrepreneurs and investors during the process, along with recognition via Unilever’s global channels and the networks of the University of Cambridge and Ashoka.

 Eligibility Criteria

  • The competition is open to individuals from any part of the world.
  • Applicants, or the founder on whose behalf the applicant is applying, must be 18-35 years old at the time of entry.
  • Entrants are required to be the initiative’s founder, co-founder, or equivalent.
  • Initiatives must have grown beyond the conceptual stage—with the product, process, or enterprise already gaining traction among local communities or other markets.
  • Entries cannot be accepted from current Unilever employees.
  • Applications must be submitted in English. (The online programme, accelerator event and the pitch will all be delivered in English, and proficiency in written and oral English is required.)
  • Solutions must relate to one or more of the UN Global Goals (Sustainable Development Goals) listed above.

How to Apply

Interested applicants must submit their applications online through the Ashoka Changemakers website.

For more information, please visit Young Entrepreneurs Awards.

Sasakawa Peace Foundation Funds for 2016 Projects Promoting International Peace, Exchange & Cooperation

Deadline: 31 October 2015

The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) is currently accepting applications from NGOs/ other not for profit organizations to undertake the different types of projects mentioned below while promoting international exchange, cooperation & understanding.

SPF contribute to the welfare of humankind and the sound development of the international community, and thus to world peace, by conducting activities fostering international understanding, exchange, and cooperation, as well as efforts to promote these activities.

Grant Size & Duration

The project program duration can be one to three years. The yearly budget per project has been between US$ 20,000 and US$100,000.

Project Types

 Regular Projects

  1. The Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund (SPINF)
  2. The Sasakawa Pan Asia Fund (SPAF)
  3. The Sasakawa Middle East Islam Fund (SMEIF)
  4. The Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund (SJCFF)

Program Areas

Projects must promote international understanding, exchange, and cooperation, and must accord with program policy of SPF and program guidelines of SPF special funds.

Past Projects             

  • Funds of 18,077,610yen on Research on New Maritime Security in 2011.
  • Funds of 8,620,080yen for Deep South Peace Media Network Development Project in Thailand.
  • Funds of 13,500,000yen towards Alliance for Disaster Assistance in the Asia-Pacific Region in 2012.
  • Funds of 11,700,000yen Empowering Civil Society in Southern Thailand through Regional Partnership in 2013

Eligibility Criteria

  • Nonprofit organizations and Voluntary organizations of any nation are eligible to apply for grants.
  • Organizations can include incorporated foundations and corporations, NPO corporations, universities and other incorporated educational institutions, and private organizations conducting non-profit activities, established on the basis of the Act on Promotion of Specified Non-profit Activities.
  • Commercial enterprises and individuals are not eligible to apply.
  • Applications must be written in either Japanese or English.

How to Apply

All proposals must be sent by post following the steps-

  • Download the grant application cover sheet available on the website.
  • Fill in all the details about the project in the application cover sheet. Applications must be written in either Japanese or English.
  • Attach documents if necessary (not compulsory)
  • Send the application via post on the address available on the website.
  • Enquiries can also be made regarding grant application.

Note: Proposals sent by FAX or email will not be processed.

For more information, please visit Sasakawa Peace Foundation Grants.

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Channel Foundation Grants Ensuring Women’s Participation in Conflict Resolution and Peace building

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

  1. Ensuring women’s participation in conflict resolution and peace building
  2. Advancing Indigenous women’s rights and leadership
  3. Securing reproductive rights/justice
  4. Overcoming legal inequality (including inheritance and resource rights)
  5. Ending violence against women and protecting women human rights defenders
  6. Promoting media reform and gender equality
  7. 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.

For more information, please visit Channel Foundation Grants.

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Call for proposals: ESCAP Trust Fund for Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness

Deadline: 31 October 2015

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Trust Fund is is calling for  project proposals to build and enhance tsunami, disaster and climate preparedness capacities, particularly in end-to-end early warning for coastal hazards.

The objective of the ESCAP Trust Fund for Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness in Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian Countries is to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to resource mobilization for building and enhancing tsunami, disaster and climate preparedness capacities at various levels in accordance with the needs of the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian countries.

The 2013-2016 strategy of Trust Fund for Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness has three main pillars:

  • Regional mechanisms
  • Special country needs
  • Civil society and business sector initiatives

Project Duration

Maximum 18 Months

Eligibile Countries

  • Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian Countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam.
  • Pacific Island Countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

Eligibility Criteria

Organizations that can apply:

  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental organizations
  • UN agencies, funds and programmes
  • Academic institutions
  • Non-governmental organizations (not for profit)

How to Apply

Applicants must download the application form available on the website and sent it via post.

For more information, please visit Trust fund.

Science Tour “Research in Germany” 2016: Research for Sustainable Urban Development

Deadline: 25 September 2015

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is currently inviting applications from the researchers from India and around the world for the Science Tour “Research in Germany” 2016.

The tour will be held in English and will provide a unique insight into innovative research activities in German universities, research institutes and industry.

The Researchers will have the opportunity to:

  • Exchange ideas with German scientists
  • Broaden their academic network
  • Discuss future collaboration projects in urban transition, mobility and infrastructure.

The duration of the tour will be of 1 week from 31 January to 6 February.

Benefits

  • Researchers will:
    • Learn more about funding opportunities for cooperation in higher education and research
    • Gain a thorough insight into the German research landscape.
    • Increase your knowledge in the area of sustainable urban development
    • Network with German scientists in universities, research institutes and industry
    • Collaborate across cultures and disciplines
  • Representatives of the DAAD will accompany the tour during the stay and provide support in the follow-up period.
  • All programme-related costs in Germany (accommodation, travel, most meals) will be paid by the DAAD.

Note: Participants are responsible for covering their own international travel expenses.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The tour is open to researchers engaged in sustainable urban development in the following disciplines:
    • Infrastructure and traffic technologies
    • Urban studies and logistics
    • Sanitary environmental engineering,
    • Geography
    • Renewable energy technologies.
  • Researchers must:
    • Hold a doctoral degree (degree awarded before 30 Sept 2013)
    • Be affiliated to a non-German university/research institute
    • Have a strong research background
    • Be able to initiate and manage major projects in cutting-edge research or educational cooperation.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted through online process.

For more information, please visit Science Tour “Research in Germany” 2016.

Young Australian to Apply for 2016 Science and Innovation Awards in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Deadline: 9 October 2015

Australian Government is currently inviting applications from youths in Australia for its Science and Innovation Awards in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

This Science Awards encourage young scientists, researchers and innovators with original projects that will contribute to the ongoing success and sustainability of Australia’s agricultural, fisheries and forestry industries. Grants available are upto $22,000.

Thematic Areas

There are 11 industry Science Award categories:

  • Biosecurity
  • Cotton
  • Dairy
  • Fisheries and aquaculture
  • Grains
  • Established new and emerging rural industries
  • Pork
  • Red meat processing
  • Viticulture and oenology
  • Meat and livestock

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must:

  • be between the ages of 18 and 35 (inclusive) on last day of application.
  • be Australian citizens or permanent residents (proof required) by the closing date.
  • be working, employed or studying in an agriculture, fisheries or forestry related industry (including food and sustainable natural resource management). Proof such as a letter of employment, scholarship or pay slip may be requested.
  • not be employed by a sponsoring organisation in the award category they are applying for, and not have an immediate family member (eg a sibling or parent) who is employed by a sponsoring organisation in their selected award category.
  • not be employed by an agency classified as a Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entity under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.
  • Employees of entities that are classified as Corporate Commonwealth entities are eligible for the Awards.

Application Process

Applicants can download the application form available on the website and should submit the filled application form via e-mail.

For more information, please visit science award 2016.

The EU Prize for Women Innovators 2016

Deadline: 20 October 2015

The European Commission has launched the 3rd edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators which aims to raise public awareness on the need for more innovation and more women innovators.

The prize recognizes and celebrates women who have benefitted from EU funding related to Research and Innovation and who have combined their scientific excellence with an aptitude for business in setting up innovative enterprises and brought innovations to the market.

Prize Information

  • First prize: 100,000 EUR
  • Second prize: 50,000 EUR
  • Third prize: 30,000 EUR

Eligibility Criteria

Every woman innovator complying with the following criteria is eligible to apply:

  • The women is residing in an EU Member State or in a country associated to Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme.
  • The women is the founder or co-founder of an existing and active company.
  • The women’s company has been registered before 1 January 2013.
  • The annual turnover of the company was minimum EUR 100 000 in 2013 or 2014.
  • Either the woman or the company she founded/co-founded have received or is receiving funding from the EU’s research framework programmes, the EURATOM Framework Programme, the Competitiveness and Innovation framework programme (CIP) or actions relating to research and innovation under theEuropean Structural and Investment Funds (known as the Structural Funds prior to 2014).

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply online via contest website provided in the PDF.

For more information, please download this PDF.

Consultant, Information Management Associate at UNDP, USA

Deadline: 10 September 2015

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is currently inviting applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Consultant, Information Management Associate based in New York.

UNDP works in more than 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion.

Key Job Responsibilities

The Consultant, Information Management Associate, will perform the following functions-

  • Ensuring compliance with corporate information management and technology standards, guidelines and procedures for the unit’s technology environment;
  • Ensuring that the users computing needs are met;
  • Problem resolution and support for all network and desktop related matters by liaising with OIST central help desk where needed;
  • Installation and configuration of UNDP’s ICT standard hardware/software;
  • Implementing and maintaining security measures, including anti-virus measures, Operating System and Application security patches in accordance with UNDP standards;
  • Preparing hardware/software requirement and specification for the assigned business unit(s), prepare requisitions, and keep up to date inventory of IT assets;
  • Ensuring that the information contained with the web page remains current and meets the published web site design and content standards and guidelines;
  • Designing and conducting training on UNDP standard computing and productivity tools; and
  • Collaborating with Information Systems and Technology staff and IMAs from other units in supporting corporate software and hardware systems.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Applicants must have-
    • Certification in A+ or MCP is required;
    • MCSE and CCNA certification are added advantages;
    • Minimum two years of relevant experience in Microsoft Network Administration is required;
    • Excellent experience and knowledge in Microsoft 7, 8 and 8.1 as well as Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 and O365, Symantec Antivirus Software is required;
    • Hands on experience in problem identification and resolution of industry standard hardware platform is required;
    • Skills in telecommunications facilities such as email (Outlook), Facsimile, Audio and Video conference facilities/equipment is desirable;
    • Fluent oral and written communication skills in English is required; and
    • Any other language is an advantage.
  • Other skills-
    • Good interpersonal skills and ability to interact effectively with users;
    • Communicates effectively with users at all levels of the organization and is comfortable in handling relations at all levels;
    • Capable of working in a highly pressured environment with different types of users, managing many tasks simultaneously; and
    • Exercises the highest level of responsibility and is able to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner.

How to Apply

  • The application package must contain-
    • Online application with brief description of why the applicant considers her/himself the most suitable for the assignment; and
    • Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects and specifying the relevant assignment period (from/to), as well as the email and telephone contacts of at least three (3) professional references.
  • Applications must be submitted through online process.

For more information, please visit UNDP.

List of AAUW 2016-17 Programs: Enhancing Women in U.S and Worldwide

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has a long and distinguished history of advancing educational and professional opportunities for women in the United States and around the globe.
Here is a list of open opportunities by AAUW for the year 2016-17.
Please visit the list by clicking Next.

The International Fellowship Program: Supporting Women’s Education

Deadline: 1 December 2015

The International Fellowship Program is seeking applications for AAUW International Fellowships for women from around the world except for United States. Its provides support for women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral study in the United States who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Preference is given to women who show prior commitment to the advancement of women and girls through civic, community, or professional work. A limited number of awards are available to women who are members of Graduate Women International for study or research in any country other than their own.

Award Information

The program will provide the amount for:

  • Master’s/first professional degree: $18,000
  • Doctoral: $20,000
  • Postdoctoral: $30,000

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for an International Fellowship, applicants must meet the following criteria:

  • Have citizenship in a country other than the United States or possession of a nonimmigrant visa if residing in the United States. Women holding dual citizenship in the United States and another country are not eligible.
  • Hold an academic degree (earned in the United States or abroad) equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree completed by September 30, 2015.
  • Intend to devote her full-time to the proposed academic plan during the fellowship year.
  • Intend to return to her home country to pursue a professional career.
  • Be proficient in English. Unless the applicant can verify that her native language is English, that she received her secondary diploma or undergraduate degree from an English-speaking institution, or that she will have completed one semester of full-time study in her discipline at an English-speaking college or university between October 2013 and September 30, 2015.

How to apply

Interested applicants can apply via given website.

For more information, please visit AAUW International Fellowship.

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