Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The Government of Japan has announced the 2022 Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP), one of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) schemes, is intended to promote socio-economic development at the grassroots level as well as to maintain Human Security by directly supporting existing projects implemented by non-profit organizations such as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and medical/ educational institutions.
GGP provides the projects with effective means to help them achieve their own goals more efficiently and effectively.
Focal Areas of Assistance
GGP mainly targets areas that aim to improve Basic Human Needs (BHN) such as projects that are highly beneficial at the grass-roots level and those that require timely support on humanitarian grounds. Typical projects include improvement of the basic education facilities, improvement of fundamental medical equipment for hospitals. CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) or BOP (Base of the Pyramid) projects in collaboration with Japanese companies can be supported by GGP.
Funding Information
- In principal, the grant amount is not more than 10 million yen (approximately 2.8 million THB) per project; however, a maximum of 100 million yen will be considered for projects which strongly reflect human security aspects.
- The project must be completed within one year after the signing of the grant contract.
Target Group
The target group of the projects should be “socially vulnerable people” whose situation would worsen without the project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-profit organizations as specified:
- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs),
- Community Based Organizations (CBOs),
- Medical Institutes (e.g. hospitals, health centers, etc.),
- Educational Institutes (e.g. public schools),
- Local Governments (e.g. Tambol Administration Organizations).
- Individuals and commercial organizations are not eligible.
- In addition, N.B.
- An applicant organization needs to have been active in the same or similar activity areas for at least two years. (Please submit financial reports of the applicant for the past two years)
- If the actual implementing organization (i.e. recipient of the funds) is different from the applicant (i.e. coordinating organization), the applicant should clearly indicate the necessity or benefit of such an arrangement.
- At the Japanese Embassy’s discretion, shortlisted applicants will be required to present comprehensive information about their proposals prior to pre-survey.
- As for Japanese NGOs, the NGO support division of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, directly handles “Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO projects”.
For more information, visit https://www.th.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/ggp.html