Deadline: 1 August 2017
The Nederlands Albert Schweitzer Fonds (NASF) is seeking applications for its Micro Grants to provide direct support to small-scale local initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa. This financial assistance is focused on the development of health care and related issues.
Participation and co-responsibility of the audience are an important evaluation criterion for project applications. All requests are initiated by the target group and implemented by them. The preference is for direct assistance to local organizations. In exceptional support through foundations in Netherlands.
Funding Information
The NASF supports each year about 25 projects with a micro grant averaging € 6000.
Country Cooperation
In 2017 the NASF will take into account requests from the following countries:
Criteria
- Healthcare
- It was the care with which Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné (Gabon) intended to make its contribution to a better world and a dignified existence. The NASF focus from that idea on health care in a broad context.
- NASF is convinced that good health is the foundation for sustainable poverty reduction. By focusing on the promotion of health and health care in the projects it supports, NASF seeks to contribute to sustainable development and self-reliance.
- Small and local
- In developing countries, many people who take matters into their hands in the fight against poverty. These local initiatives are the result of local needs and respecting their environment. The projects supported by the NASF strive for sustainability and self-reliance. They are all created by locals and executed. Therefore, the projects have a high probability of success. They are in fact carried out according to their needs and within their own context.
- Startfase
- Starting small and local projects in Africa is often the hardest. The local promoters do not have the necessary local (financial) resources. This they do in major development donors (yet) a chance. Thanks to the start-up grant from the NASF they can still start their project.
- Sustainable
- Dutch Albert Schweitzer Foundation believes that targeted support to potentially hopeful perspective and bidding activities at local level has a lasting effect. Indeed, it is proved by several of our partner organizations, they were able to develop further at a later stage due to the start-up grant from the NASF. This is by generating local funds or through successful fundraising with major donors. The “spin-off” of the NASF contribution in the long term proved to be substantial in those cases.
How to Apply
- The project application package consists of:
- Project Request Form;
- Record bank details;
- Detailed project budget;
- Project applications must be submitted at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit Micro Grants.
