Deadline: 19-Apr-22
The Embassy of Canada in Mexico is pleased to launch its annual call for proposals for the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).
The CFLI is a program designed to support small-scale, high-impact projects, which align with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priority areas for engagement. The program is directed at projects conceived and designed predominantly by local partners. Projects are selected and approved by the Embassy of Canada in Mexico. The CFLI also serves to support positive bilateral relations between Canada and Mexico and its civil society, by deepening contacts and supporting local endeavors.
Thematic Priorities
- All projects must align with at least one of the following CFLI thematic priorities:
- Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
- Inclusive governance, including:
- Diversity – with a focus on the indigenous population, LGBTQ+ community, and migrants/refugees
- Human rights – with a focus on forced displacements, human rights defenders, forced disappearances, journalists and freedom of expression,
- Democracy and the rule of law – with a focus on transparency and anti-corruption.
- Peace and security, with a focus on conflict prevention, including youths and crime, crime reduction, and the professionalization of police forces.
- The growth that works for everyone, including women’s economic rights, decent jobs and entrepreneurship, investing in the poorest and most vulnerable, and safeguarding economic gains.
- Human dignity, covering health, education, and nutrition.
- Environment and climate action focus on adaptation and mitigation, as well as on water management.
- The embassy will prioritize projects taking place or benefiting people in the states of Baja California, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico City, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Estado de Mexico, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatán.
- The embassy would welcome a proposal pertaining to gender-based violence affecting touristic areas. The project could aim to increase the awareness, knowledge, and response capacity of local authorities or tourist industry stakeholders when faced with cases of gender-based violence. It may also seek to inform them of Canadian consular services available to Canadian victims of such violence.
Gender-Based Analysis
- In 2017, Canada adopted a Feminist International Assistance Policy to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as the most effective way to reduce poverty and build a more inclusive, peaceful, and prosperous world. In alignment with this policy, the CFLI project proposals now require a gender-based analysis (GBA). The purpose of this exercise is to enhance the gender equality outcomes of the CFLI program.
- A GBA requires applicants to:
- Consult with women and/or girls during the development of their project proposal; and
- Make sure to take into account, in the design of the project, the points of view and opinions of the women and/or girls consulted.
- A gender-based analysis (ABG+) is a tool both to understand the local context and to support gender equality. A GBA+ examines the relationships between men and women, girls and boys, their access to resources, their activities, and the constraints they face with each other in a particular context. It identifies the various roles that women and men, girls and boys play in the home, the community, the workplace, political processes, and the economy. These different roles often result in women having less access to and control over resources, and less participation and influence in decision-making processes.
- A GBA also considers how other interrelated identity factors, such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ2I, legal status, ability, language, religion, socioeconomic status, and education, affect individual and group experiences, including between women and men.
- Gender equality is not just about women’s or girls’ issues and it’s not just about working with or for women and girls. The commitment of men and boys is essential. Consider how women, girls, men, and boys are differentially affected by the problem that the project addresses while ensuring that the project does not cause harm;
- Inadequate completion of a GBA may affect the consideration of your proposal.
Funding Information
- The average CFLI contribution in Mexico ranges from $30 000 to $35 000 Canadian dollars.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible recipients include:
- Local non-governmental, community, and non-profit organizations,
- Local academic institutions working on local projects,
- International non-governmental organizations working on local development activities,
- Intergovernmental, multilateral and regional institutions, organizations, and agencies working on local development activities (They advise missions to pursue projects with UN agencies judiciously, as the UN often requests changes to the Standard Contribution Agreements that cause delays),
- Institutions or municipal, regional, or national government agencies of the recipient country that work on local projects, and
- Canadian non-governmental and non-profit organizations working on local development activities through a local office.
For more information, visit CFLI.
For more information, visit https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/funding-financement/cfli-fcil/2022/mexico-mexique.aspx?lang=eng