Deadline: 13 June 2018
Applicants are invited to apply for the UK Aid Direct’s Jo Cox Memorial Strengthening grants program.
Themes
- Theme 1: Women’s social, economic and political empowerment through supporting women-led civil society. This thematic area will support civil society to take an integrated approach to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls – to tackle the combined and simultaneous disadvantages girls and women experience – in different areas and at different times of their lives. This will include contexts where space for these civic actors is closing or at risk.
- Theme 2: Strengthening civil society capacity for early prediction of identity-based violence including mass atrocities; and amplifying and supporting response to early warnings in order to prompt timely and effective interventions that prevent escalation and better protect populations from the threat of violence.
Grant size
Grants for between £50,000 and £100,000 will be considered by an independent review panel.
Duration
Strengthening grant projects should run for a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 3 years, in one of DFID’s eligible countries.
Eligibility Criteria
- Strengthening grants are for small organisations, registered as a not-for-profit in the UK, in one of the lowest 50 countries in the UN Human Development Index (HDI) or in one of the countries that DFID considers to be of high or moderate fragility (mentioned below).
- Country level offices of international NGO’s will not be eligible, unless they have a clear independent board structure and are registered in an eligible country.
- The organisation must have an average income of less than £500,000 per annum for the past 3 years, as shown in approved organisational accounts.
- Applicants may be asked to provide relevant documentation as evidence.
- New organisations with fewer than 3 years of accounts may also apply and in such cases, average annual income will be calculated based on the organisation’s length of operation.
How to Apply
- The applications process is a two-staged process:
- the submission of a concept note
- a full application (if an organisation is successful at the concept note stage)
- All applications must be submitted online. Applications sent via email or post will not be accepted.
Eligible Countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Democratic Republic of The), Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt (Arab Republic of), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, The Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Tanzania (United Republic of), Turkmenistan, Togo, Tajikistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe and UK.
For more information, please visit Jo Cox Memorial Strengthening grants.
