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The Arca Foundation: Advancing Social Equity and Justice

Over the years, the Arca Foundation has looked to activists, academics, policy makers, and intellectuals to inform its grant making. Many of these individuals have served on the board, helped to educate trustees and introduced the foundation to a wide arena of philanthropy.

The Arca Foundation is dedicated to advancing social equity and justice, particularly given the growing disparities in our world. The Foundation believes that a vibrant democracy requires an organized and informed citizenry that has access to information and free expression.

Foundation’s Priorities

To use its resources to empower the experts on the front lines.
To ensure transparency and honesty in government and enterprise.
To engage in affecting public policy.
To pursue social justice and equity.
To advance the principle that all persons have the right to a secure and dignified life.

Focus Areas

Public Education
Promotion of a more equitable, accountable, and transparent economic recovery
Build a movement to advance a more just economy and Democracy.

Foundation’s Strategies

Developing and advocating for innovative ideas;
Promoting transparency and access to information;
Fostering greater public debate on critical issues;
Educating key stakeholders;
Engaging citizens in strategic organizing and advocacy that builds power and drives change.

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The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) is the first national democracy assistance foundation to be established in Asia, and is devoted to strengthening democracy and human rights in Taiwan and abroad. The Foundation’s primary concerns are to further consolidate Taiwan’s democratic system, to promote democracy in Asia, and to participate actively in the global democratic network. The Foundation is committed to the vision of working together with like-minded organizations and individuals, building on Taiwan’s experience to advance a new wave of democratization worldwide.

Focus Areas

Advocacy projects
Research
Conferences
Publications
Educational programs

Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellowship

Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellowship are open for applicants who are interested in pursuing projects with a more practical focus.

Award Information

The TFD awards all Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellows with a stipend of NT$45,000 per month.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants from all countries except Taiwan are eligible to apply for the fellowship program.
Applicants should possess an MA or equivalent in a field relevant to the proposed project at the time of application.
Applicants should have at least two years of relevant work experience.

How to Apply

Interested applicants are requested to fill up and submit the application form given on the website.

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The Sigrid Rausing Trust : Supporting Human Rights

The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a UK grantmaking foundation, founded in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing to support human rights globally. Since then, the Trust has given away approximately £250 million to human rights organisations all over the world.

Our guiding principles are:

We recognise the value of core funding.
We look for good and effective leadership.
We are flexible and responsive to needs and opportunities.
We value clarity and brevity in applications and reports.
We look to establish long-term relationships with grantees.

The Trust runs nine main programmes:

Advocacy, Research and Litigation
Detention, Torture and Death Penalty
Human Rights Defenders
Free Expression
Transitional Justice
Women’s Rights
LGBTI Rights
Xenophobia and Intolerance
Transparency and Accountability

The 2016 Trust budget is £22.6 million. Please note that we identify potential grantees through research and field work, and we do not accept unsolicited applications.

Contact Details:

Sigrid Rausing Trust,
PO BOX 74062,
LONDON W11 9GR

Job : WVI: Regional Child Health Now Specialist- Costa Rica

Deadline: 5 Feb 2013

World Vision International has invited applications from qualified and suitable applicants for the job/vacancy of Regional Child Health Now Specialist – LACRO. This is an local role that will be based in the country of the successful candidate within the region (Latin America and the Caribbean) under a local contract. Please note that this position is Family-Spouse with Children. The duration of this job is 2 years.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Required

Law, sociology, political science, or other related field degree
A successful track record in developing and implementing advocacy campaigns
Fluency in Spanish and English
5 years experience in advocacy, communications, and/or health policies and programs; and experience of developing this capacity in other people
Experience of working with different offices across different national boundaries.

Preferred:

Masters degree in human rights public policy international development or relations, sociology or other related field
Portuguese and French
Practical advocacy campaign and health experience in different national contexts particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean
Project Management experience.
Experience of managing a network and working virtually with various stakeholders.

How to Apply

Online

For more info please visit this link.

UNICEF Job: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer – Patna India

Deadline: 6 Feb 2013

UNICEF India has invited applications from qualified and deserving candidates for the job/vacancy of Monitoring & Evaluation Officer – Polio Eradication. Locations of this job will be based in Patna, Bihar-India. The incumbent will provide technical oversight and guidance to the monitoring, evaluation and data management requirements of the Communication component of the Polio Programme in Bihar State.

Education

University degree in public health, epidemiology or medicine, combined with sound technical knowledge of management information systems and various computer applications.

Work Experience

Minimum two years’ experience in data management and analysis, programme management, and project advocacy preferably in polio eradication programme. Past experience in synthesizing data related to polio epidemiology, supplementary immunization activities and communication programming for polio desirable.

Language Proficiency

Fluency in written and spoken English and good knowledge of Hindi required. Candidate should have excellent communication skills, and ability in networking and advocacy, particularly, with Government and development partners in Patna.

How to Apply

Applications consisting of a cover letter and an up-to-date CV should be sent to [email protected] by 6th February 2013.

For more info please visit this link.

Care USA Requires Deputy Director – Learning Tours – Washington

Date Posted: 16 Jan 2013

Applications are invited by Care USA from qualified and deserving candidates for the job/vacancy of Deputy Director, Learning Tours. Location of this job is Washington-US. Kindly note that job type is full time, Accompanied – Family and requires upto 40% travel.

Responsibilities:

• Project management;

• Manage and support Program Manager and Program Officer;

• Serve and Represent as a leader of the Global Advocacy Initiatives team;

• Follow-up Advocacy Coordination;

• Budget Management.

Required:

• Bachelors degree in political science, international affairs, international development or a related field;

• At least 7 years of experience with a background in both advocacy and development;

• Experience in managing projects in a complex, international organization;

• Experience in managing people;

• Experience with political and/or social change advocacy campaigns;

• Experience planning and managing Congressional delegation travel and/or other VIP travel overseas

• Experience getting things done without direct line management authority;

• Experience with and knowledge of how USG policy is made and implemented;

• Experience developing and managing partnerships and alliances;

• Advanced written and oral communication skills;

• Excellent planning and implementation skills;

• Budget management;

• Knowledge and understanding of the U.S. legislative process;

• Knowledge and understanding of policy issues related to CARE’s mission;

• Word processing, Outlook, Powerpoint, internet skills;

• Interest in and willingness to travel;

• Database management skills;

• Facilitation and training skills.

Desired:

• Master’s Degree in relevant field;

• Experience doing advance work for political campaigns;

• General familiarity with U.S. ethics laws and lobbying regulations related to nonprofit organizations;

• Experience with PeopleSoft;

• Fundraising: Working with and relationships with funders.

How to Apply

Online

For more information please visit this link.

CREA’s Training Program for women leaders in NGOs in South Asia

CREA is organizing the Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute from 28 January to 1 February 2013 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Institute is an annual five-day residential training programme aims to build the conceptual clarity of participants on gender, feminism, feminist leadership, and movement building, and their links to human rights in the South Asian context. It also aims to strengthen feminist leadership, strategies, and collective power of young women for their voices and demands to be heard—at the level of the community to the highest levels of decision-making.

This Institute offers mid-level women leaders in NGOs an opportunity to enhance their conceptual understanding as well as build their skills to do effective activism and advocacy on human rights. The Institute will build:

Conceptual understanding of participants on gender, feminism, and movement building, and their links to human rights.
Strategic skills by looking at and analyzing some social movements and successful advocacy campaigns in South Asia.
Communication skills that will enable participants to prepare effective written communication material, social messaging in videos and documentaries, and use information and communications technology (ICT) for human rights work.

The Institute is supported by the Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW) Fund, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, allowing CREA to cover tuition, boarding, and lodging costs for all participants. Participants must cover their own travel expenses. A limited number of travel scholarships from CREA are available on a need basis.

Applications are due on or before 10 December 2012. For more information, visit this link.

Open Society Foundations’ Human Rights Data Initiative

The Open Society Foundations’ Human Rights Data Initiative (HRDI) helps human rights organizations improve their capacity to make the data they collect searchable and reusable, and to capture data in such a way that it can be cross–referenced, integrated with new analytical tools, and disseminated through a host of new distribution platforms.

HRDI is currently conducting research on topics that cut across the fields of human rights and transparency/accountability, where new uses of data can be a game–changer. HRDI has chosen to begin this initiative on the theme of eminent domain and other methods of state expropriation of property and housing through evictions and housing allocation decisions. As this is an area where human rights intersect with an issue of intense civic interest, the project will investigate how these expropriations affect a range of rights, and explore ways in which civil society organizations can use data to challenge government abuses of eminent domain.

As HRDI aims to support the development of global expertise in this field, “game–changing data” will be a defining longer–term theme for HRDI. As the project unfolds, we expect not only to learn more about the abuse of eminent domain and urban planning, but also to learn:

what kind of data it takes to reach a new audience with human rights advocacy
what data can create new momentum in an existing field
when data design for advocacy has an impact, and when it is merely cosmetic

HRDI has a full program of work for 2013. It is always open to applications for projects from new partners whose purpose and priorities match their own, however it cannot guarantee to fund your project. It endeavors to respond to applications for funds which meet the criteria specified within two months.

The deadline to submit concept notes is ongoing.

For more information, visit this link.

UN Women Call for Proposals under the Civil Society Grant Facility

UN Women has launched a grant making facility for civil society organizations under the ‘Increasing Accountability in Financing Gender Equality’ (F4GE) programme to to support innovative knowledge building, advocacy, capacity building, alliance-building and networking for financing for gender equality.

The F4GE programme is implemented by UN Women in collaboration with ITC/ILO and with the support of the European Commission and the Government of Spain. The programme covers 15 countries (Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Senegal, Ukraine, Cameroon, Tanzania, Nepal, Peru, Bolivia and Rwanda). The current funding is offered by UN Women as part of this F4GE programme.

This Civil Society Grant Facility provides a flexible mechanism that allows civil society organizations the opportunity to test innovative approaches for generating new knowledge, undertake effective advocacy and perform a critical citizen monitoring role, in relation to financing for gender equality. The grants provided will support implementation of activities over a period of one year. The facility is intended to contribute to the following objectives:

a) Build knowledge and evidence on financing for gender equality

b) Build Capacity of Gender Equality Advocates to demand and monitor Financing for Gender Equality

c) Empower networks of feminist economists and women’s organizations for effective policy advocacy for accountability and financing for gender equality

The size of the grants that will provided under this grant will be between $20,000 and $50,000 for initiatives covering a period of one year.

The deadline to submit proposals is 31 October 2012. For more information, visit this link.

UNICEF seeking Expressions of Interest on Peacebuilding, Education and Advocacy Programme

UNICEF is inviting organizations/agencies (including research institutions) to submit an expression of interest to enter into partnerships on the following key areas within the ‘peacebuilding, education and advocacy’ programme. This expression of interest if part of the four-year peacebuilding, education and advocacy programme, implemented by UNICEF, in recognition that insecurity is a primary development challenge of our time and a significant barrier to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the right to universal primary education.

The peacebuilding, education and advocacy programme is designed to strengthen resilience, social cohesion and human security in conflict-affected contexts, including countries at risk of, or experiencing and recovering from conflict. The programme focuses on 14 countries in West and East Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.

UNICEF invites organizations/agencies (including research institutions) to submit an expression of interest to enter into partnerships on the following key areas within the ‘peacebuilding, education and advocacy’ programme:

Inclusion of education into peacebuilding policies
Institutional capacity to supply conflict sensitive education
Increased capacity of children, parents, teachers and other duty-bearers to prevent, reduce, and cope with conflict and promote peace.
Access to quality, relevant conflict sensitive education that contributes to peace.
Generation and use of evidence on policies and programming related to education and peacebuilding.
Monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding and education programs

Expressions of Interest should be maximally three pages long (Font 12, 1” Margins [Normal]), and contain the following elements:

– Name and Background Information of the Organization

– Description of areas of technical expertise in particular across both peacebuilding and education domains

– List of current partners, areas of common engagement, length of partnerships

– Geographic areas of engagement and expertise (specify country experience and years of engagement)- Proposed area of interest within the six areas listed above

– Contact Information

Deadline for submissions of expressions of interest is 08 October 2012. For more information, visit this link.