Before getting down to write proposals for the funding opportunity under the IFAD’s Finance Facility for Remittances (FFR) 2010 Call for Proposals, it will be interesting to read and analyze the current projects funded under this programme. In fact, IFAD has a number of rural-based remittance … [Read more...] about IFAD’s Rural Remittances and Development Projects under Finance Facility for Remittances (FFR) -1
IFAD’s Rural Remittances and Development Projects under Finance Facility for Remittances (FFR) -2
The Groupe de recherché et d’echanges technologiques (GRET) in Senegal is implementing a two-year project for Senegalese migrants living in Italy who find difficulties in not only sending money back home due to limited remittance facilities in their home country but also because their major … [Read more...] about IFAD’s Rural Remittances and Development Projects under Finance Facility for Remittances (FFR) -2
IFAD’s Rural Remittances and Development Projects under Finance Facility for Remittances (FFR) -3
In Asia, the funded projects have been extended to India, Nepal and Tajikistan. In India, the Indian Grameen Services has partnered with private banks to implement projects in the poorest regions of the country where through male migration is very high, yet access to credit back home is low, … [Read more...] about IFAD’s Rural Remittances and Development Projects under Finance Facility for Remittances (FFR) -3
NGOs that received Grants under UNIFEM’s Fund for Gender Equality
Under the catalytic category of the Fund for Gender Equality, UNIFEM announced that it has selected 27 projects to fund more than nine million dollars with each organization receiving between $100,000 and $500,000. Nearly 90% of this funding has been rendered to civil society organizations and the … [Read more...] about NGOs that received Grants under UNIFEM’s Fund for Gender Equality
NGOs and Projects that received funding under AUSAID’s Human Rights Small Grant Scheme 2009-2010
In the third quarter of 2009, the Australian Agency for International Development (AUSAID) announced the Human Rights Small Grant Scheme 2009-2010 for NGOs from Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and accepted proposals from them till 2 October 2009. On the … [Read more...] about NGOs and Projects that received funding under AUSAID’s Human Rights Small Grant Scheme 2009-2010
Pahal-People’s Trust, Jaipur, INDIA
Our Mission To facilitate and ensure sustainable development through better resource-utilization and participative development of beneficiaries with the objective of promoting and empowered society which will encourage the emergence of empowered, self-reliant and co-operative people all across the … [Read more...] about Pahal-People’s Trust, Jaipur, INDIA
Ideas for Strategies from the Anti-Trafficking Programs Funded by G/TIP in 2009
As part of making preparations to write an effective proposal or application form (SOI) under the current grant competition from the US State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, International Programs Section (G/TIP), it will be interesting to go through and understand … [Read more...] about Ideas for Strategies from the Anti-Trafficking Programs Funded by G/TIP in 2009
More US Funding for NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa
The Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (NEA/PI), Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the US Department of State has announced an open competition for foreign and US-based NGOs under the “Youth Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa Program Announcement.” The program will … [Read more...] about More US Funding for NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa
Get DFID-funded Projects online
The year 2009 has witnessed some drastic changes at the Department for International Development (DFID) including re-branding itself to UKAID. The presentation of the 2009 white paper, "Building Our Common Future" outlines the measures that are being slowly adopted by the agency to bring about … [Read more...] about Get DFID-funded Projects online
ICCO: Partnering with NGOs on Health and Education
ICCO is the Netherlands-based interchurch organization for development cooperation working to reduce poverty and justice around the world so that people can live a lift of dignity and prosperity. In order to achieve its primary goal, ICCO provides grant support to local NGOs in different countries. … [Read more...] about ICCO: Partnering with NGOs on Health and Education
