FRIDA’s Third Round of Grants: Youth-led Funds for Social Justice

Deadline: 28 July 2014

FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund has announced the launch of its third call for proposals. FRIDA is the youth-led fund focused exclusively on supporting global young feminist activism to advance social justice movements and agendas.

It was created to bring new resources and new opportunities to young women and trans* youth globally. We believe that supporting young feminists is key to the expansion, rejuvenation and sustainability of women’s movements and organizations, both now and in the future. To date, FRIDA has completed two grant cycles in 2012 and 2013, and cumulatively supported 32 different groups of young feminists in 28 different countries around the world and awarding a total of 196,000 USD in direct grants.

Who can apply?

Groups founded or led by young women or trans* youth (under 30 years) that are committed to:

Advancing and defending women’s rights from a feminist perspective;

Improving the lives of young women/transgender youth at local, national, regional or international levels;

Inclusive organizing, collective action and feminist movement building

Groups, networks, or collectives based in the Global South (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, The Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and Central, Southern, Eastern Europe and Caucuses and Central Asia).

Groups founded in the past 5 years (i.e. your group was formed between 2010 – 2014).

Priority will be given to:

Small, emerging grassroots groups, networks, or collectives with little or no access to funding from larger donors.

Groups, networks, or collectives that are working on emerging or issues that have not received prior funding.

Groups, networks, or collectives located in remote underserved areas.

Groups, networks, or collectives that are diverse in their membership and made up of and/or working with socially marginalized young women especially: refugees, ethnic, national and caste minorities, rural women, urban poor, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, women living with HIV/AIDS, sex workers, women with disabilities, women living in armed conflicts and post conflict zones.

Groups using creative and innovative strategies to further their activism (including art, music, culture, poetry, social media etc).

For more information, visit this link.

The Foundation for Human Rights Calls CSOs in South Africa to Implement LGBTI Program

Deadline: 15 July 2014

The Foundation for Human Rights (FHR) invites civil society organizations in South Africa and the region working in the sector of human rights to partner in ‘Access to Justice and Promotion of Constitutional Rights (Strengthening Civil Society)’ (AJCPR) Program. The key aim of the AJCPR Program is to contribute to the promotion and fulfillment of the rights established under the Constitution to build a society in which all South Africans are empowered to live their lives in dignity.

African continent has granted official recognition to same-sex marriages through the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006. the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people is recognized by asserting the right to equal protection and benefit of the law but legal rights do not always translate into attitudinal change and full acceptance. Thus, the AJPCR program aims to contribute to the promotion, protection and realization of rights established in the Constitution through three key objectives – improving access to justice, raising awareness of constitutional rights and strengthening democracy through partnerships with civil society.

Phases: The project is divided into three phases, to be undertaken consecutively-

Phase I: Scan of LGBTI Initiatives and Review of LGBTI Training and Awareness Materials and Programs. In this phase, research and report writing is conducted including database and literature review leading to the development of training materials and a set of training programs. Total duration is 5 weeks starting from 1 August to 5 September 2014. Budget is R40,000.

Phase II: Development of LGBTI Training Materials and Programs. Total duration is 12 weeks, starting 1 October and ending 23 December 2014. Budget is R195,000.

Phase III: Piloting and Finalization of LGBTI Training Materials and Programs. Total duration is 11 weeks, starting 15 January to 31 March 2015. Budget is R115,000.

Eligibility Criteria

Applications can be made for all three phases of work or for only one phase.

Applicants must be a legal entity/organization whose core mandate is the promotion, protection and advancement of human rights, and must be registered with the Department of Social Development as a non-profit organization.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate their ability to implement the project and to transfer knowledge at local level.

Applicant must have specialist expertise in the following areas- human rights context in South Africa, LGBTI experiences (specifically rights violations) in South Africa, gender-based violence, knowledge of gaps in state and civil society service delivery to women and LGBTI populations, experience in desktop research, literature review and other relevant research methods, track record of timely delivery of appropriate materials/outcomes.

Applicants for Phase II or for all three phases must have knowledge of and experience in developing training material on LGBTI and broader human rights.

Applicants for Phase III or for all three phases must have knowledge of and experience in conducting LGBTI sensitivity and competence/skills-building training for state and non-state service providers.

Applications must be made in English language.

For more information, please visit LGBTI Project and download relevant documents.

The Government of Canada launches Religious Freedom Fund Call for Proposals

Deadline: 24 July 2014

The Government of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) through its Office of Religious Freedom (ORF), is launching a Religious Freedom Fund call for proposals.

The call is intended to achieve one or several of the following outcomes:

Increased capacity of religious communities to access the public space so they can benefit from religious freedom;

Strengthened institutions’ and civil society’s response to specific violations of religious freedom in targeted countries and promote tolerance and pluralism; and/or,

Increased effectiveness of organizations, including national and international stakeholders, to act against violations of freedom of religion.

The call will consider proposals whose aim is to promote and defend freedom of religion through one or several of the following:

Enhanced interfaith dialogue between religious communities on issues related to religious freedom;

Increased interfaith awareness among relevant audiences or groups to discuss and promote religious freedom;

Enhanced institutional and civil society capacity to monitor the situation of religious freedom;

Greater access by decision-makers and government officials to research addressing freedom of religion;

Greater awareness by decision-makers and government officials of threats to freedom of religion;

Increased capacity of organisations to provide training on legal and legislative aspects of religious freedom; and,

Increased capacity of organizations that defend either people targeted because of their faith or human right defenders acting on behalf of such persons.

The geographic scope includes countries from Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia (including Central Asia).

Eligible Recipients

local non-governmental, community, religious, academic or not-for-profit organizations based in foreign countries;

international, intergovernmental, multilateral and regional organizations; and,

Canadian non-governmental, community, religious, academic and not-for-profit organizations operating abroad.

For more information, visit this link.