Deadline: 28-Jul-20
The PeaceNexus has launched a call for proposals for 2020 International Partners Organisational Development (OD) to support nine international partners, including two multilateral agencies that have a peace and security mandate.
PeaceNexus is looking to complement its current porfolio of international OD partners. They invite applications from international organisations that have peacebuilding as their primary mandate and are active or present through partners/members in at least 5 countries. The OD support will address their internal challenges, with the aim of strengthening their ability to support local peacebuilding actors, including women and youth-led groups.
With this 2020 Organisational Development (OD) Call, they wish to partner with international organisations that have peacebuilding as their primary mandate and want to strengthen their ability to support local peacebuilding actors, including women and youth-led groups. They are particularly interested in supporting civil society networks and organisations that serve to strengthen local peacebuilders and increase their influence. They look for innovative leaders that can influence global policy and practice and directly support locally-led peacebuilding, particularly in the focus regions.
PeaceNexus welcomes applications from all organisations that fulfil the eligibility criteria and want to address internal challenges to maximise their impact and contribution to local peacebuilding. When selecting international OD partners, they seek out change-makers with a demonstrated potential to challenge the status quo – be it through who they connect, how they work or through the scale of their activities. For example:
- Networks or NGO platforms that represent coalitions of local peacebuilders.
- International peacebuilding organisations that directly support and empower local actors.
- International peacebuilding organisations that contribute to making peacebuilding policy and practice more locally-led, participatory and inclusive.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants need to fill all the following eligibility criteria:
- Be a civil society organisation or a network or a foundation;
- And have building peace and social cohesion at the core of their mission or mandate;
- And have a presence (directly or through partners/members) in at least 5 countries, preferably including the focus regions
- And be directly responsible for the preparation of the application and management of the process if selected (not acting as intermediary), and
- Confirm that their activities will not violate the USA PATRIOT Act (18 U. S. C. §2339B)
Selection Criteria
- Relevance of the applicant and its role in strengthening local peacebuilding: They achieve the impact through the work of their partners. Therefore, they need to understand through concrete examples what difference your work makes and to whom. It is important for us to understand where you have already a track record that contributes to local peacebuilding, and where you see potential for even more impact.
- Readiness to engage in an organisational or network development process: Since an honest self-assessment and open acknowledgment of difficulties is key to the processes they support, they encourage you to be self-reflective and to be upfront in the articulation of your challenges. Through your application, they want to understand what is your current situation and why you want to invest your time and energy in this process. To this end, they are particularly keen to know how you expect the OD process to contribute to your effectiveness and impact.
For more information, visit https://peacenexus.org/call-for-proposals/