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FCS: Implementation of Good governance, Peace Building and Conflict Resolution and Livelihoods/ Economic Empowerment Programmes in Tanzania

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Deadline: 15 January 2019

The Foundation for Civil Society (FCS) is seeking proposals from Tanzanian civil society organizations (from both mainland and Zanzibar) to apply for grants to implement projects on three main broad programmatic areas which are (i) Good governance (ii) Peace Building and Conflict Resolution and (iii) Livelihoods and Economic Empowerment.

Programme Areas

  1. Good Governance Programme
    • Outcome I: Local Government Authorities (LGAs) deliver improved quality and equal services.
      • FCS invites applications from CSOs that will implement projects which focus on:
        • Social Accountability Monitoring (SAM) or Public Expenditure Tracking System (PETS) in the education sector focusing on Mtwara, Lindi,Morogoro, Shinyanga, Tabora, Coast Region, Tanga, Singida, Rukwa, Kigoma, Geita, Mwanza, Katavi and Kagera regions, Unguja and Pemba.
        • Social Accountability Monitoring (SAM) or Public Expenditure Tracking System (PETS) in the water sector focusing on Mtwara, Lindi, Singida, Dodoma, Simiyu, Geita, Shinyanga, Manyara, Kilimanjaro, Mara and Tanga regions.
        • Social Accountability Monitoring (SAM) or Public Expenditure Tracking System (PETS) in the Agriculture sector focusing on Morogoro, Mbeya, Iringa, Ruvuma, Songwe and Njombe regions.
        • Social Accountability Monitoring (SAM) or Public Expenditure Tracking System (PETS) in the Health sector focusing on Katavi, Ruvuma, Njombe, Rukwa, Singida, Mbeya, Tabora and Tanga regions.
    • Outcome II: Improved democratic processes that better reflect citizens’ rights, especially those of marginalized groups (PWDs and ethnic minority and women)
      • Under this area the Foundation invites applications from CSOs that will implement projects in the following key interventions and regions.
        • Advocacy against harmful traditional practices such as Female Genital Mutilation, Violence Against Children (VAC) (Child marriage, Child Preganancies, Rape) and Gender Based Violence (GBV) (Rape and other forms of violence against women). The target regions are Mara, Mwanza, Shinyanga, Simiyu, Arusha, Manyara, Kilimanjaro, Geita, Singida, Dodoma, Unguja and Pemba, Katavi and Rukwa.
        • Advocacy for the rights of people with Disabilities to increase their participation in public accountability and local governance processes, quality services including education and Health, specific for Disabled People Organizations and Networks, projects from all regions of Tanzania.
        • Promote access to land and other property rights especially for women. Target regions are Arusha, Manyara, Morogoro, Unguja, Pemba and Iringa.
  2. Livelihoods/ Economic Empowerment Programme
    • Outcome I: Ensuring that youth entrepreneurs have secured greater access to markets, livelihoods assets and resources
      • Objectives
        • Enable young people to access markets for their products (Making Local Government Authorities provide market spaces for the youth);
        • Empower young people to maximize and access capital from private micro firms to improve businesses;
        • Empower young people to start individual or group income generating projects to improve their lives;
        • Encourage local governments to empower young people and women to access the 4% of the funds allocated for the youth at district, municipal and Town Council levels;
        • Encouraging local governments to create a more enabling environment for young people to expand their businesses and utilize other economic opportunities
        • Advocate for youth to own economic assets and property such as land for improved livelihoods.
        • Design project that will continue enhancing inclusion of youth in government structures and decision making processes.
    • FCS invites applications from CSOs to implement livelihoods projects in the following regions: Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Mbeya, Dodoma, Mwanza, Unguja and Pemba.
  3. Peace Building and Conflict Resolution Programme
    • Objective: To contribute to harmonious and peaceful co-existence amongst communities and various people groups
      • Competent CSOs are encouraged to work on strengthening or improving mechanisms for peacebuilding or conflict resolution that already exist at local levels. Therefore, under this programme.
        • FCS invites applications from CSOs to implement projects at national and regional level with the following focus:-
          • Dialogue efforts to bridge political differences (Focus area- National level)
          • Interventions that enhance conflict resolution on natural resources including land (Area of focus: Dodoma, Morogoro, Manyara and Arusha)
          • Interventions that promote Inter-religious dialogue (Focus area- National level)

Funding Information

This call for applications is for the Innovative Grants and Medium Grants.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL INTERESTED APPLICANTS

Eligibility Criteria

The following institutions are eligible to apply for grants at the Foundation for civil society:

How to Apply

In this call there are only 2 ways of submitting the application either by hand delivery or through registered mails, with all of its attachments. FCS will not accept any applications by emails or through online system. The application package will be available for download on the given website.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2Lm9J0R

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