Deadline: 24-Oct-2024
The Commonwealth Foundation is seeking grant applications to facilitate constructive engagement between civil society and decision-makers, including civil society participation in policy development and implementation.
Themes
- Health Justice
- Projects could support civil society to engage meaningfully with government on:
- Universal health coverage.
- Realising the right to health: better availability, accessibility, quality, participation and accountability in health services and delivery.
- Programmes and policies that focus on social determinants of health as part of the inclusive right to health.
- Challenging systemic discrimination in health systems and promoting equitable access to health services for marginalised groups and those with special needs.
- Promoting the participation of marginalised groups and those with special needs in decision-making processes.
- Promoting health and well-being by combating communicable and non-communicable diseases.
- Equitable access to essential medicines.
- Projects could support civil society to engage meaningfully with government on:
- Freedom of Expression
- Projects could support civil society to engage meaningfully with government on:
- Advancing a legal and regulatory environment that protects and upholds freedom of expression for all.
- Advancing a legal and regulatory environment that promotes the freedom, growth, and vibrancy of civil society.
- Promoting access to information and transparency in governance, including through a free and independent press, robust freedom of information laws and their practical application.
- Advancing civil society engagement in national, regional and/or international mechanisms and processes to promote freedom of expression (e.g., national human rights institutions; Universal Periodic Reviews).
- Promoting art and creativity as means of advocating for and raising awareness of freedom of expression.
- Projects could support civil society to engage meaningfully with government on:
- Climate Justice
- Projects could support civil society to engage meaningfully with government on:
- Ensuring representation, inclusion, and protecting the rights of those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
- Addressing the social, political, and economic root causes of climate injustice.
- Strengthening the voices of those most affected by the climate crisis in multilateral and national spaces.
- Ensuring that the voice, agency, and leadership of young women and men are at the centre of policy discussions and decision-making at all levels.
- Advocating for corrective justice for environmental harm, including compensation mechanisms, access to justice and effective remedy, and legal empowerment.
- Ensuring accountability and effective remedy for human rights harms caused by climate change.
- Developing, reviewing, improving, and monitoring laws, policies and practices promoting climate justice.
- Exposing and addressing the factors that contribute to the increased vulnerability of social groups to the consequences of climate change.
- Exposing and addressing negative social and distributional outcomes of climate change mitigation policies and/or encourage support for the development of pro-poor mitigation approaches.
- Projects could support civil society to engage meaningfully with government on:
Funding Information
- The total grant amount requested must be a minimum of £15,000 or between £15,001 and £30,000 per year, and for a maximum of two years.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be a not-for-profit civil society organisation (CSO) registered in an eligible Commonwealth Foundation member country.
- Newly registered organisations (those that have been registered and operating for less than three years) are not eligible to apply.
- The proposed project must be implemented in the country of registration. Projects can be implemented in one or more eligible Commonwealth Foundation member countries and can have a national, sub-national, regional, or international remit. In multi-country projects, strong local participation in project implementation is required.
- The project must seek to facilitate change through constructive engagement between civil society and decision-makers, including civil society participation in policy development and decision-making, within one or more of the Foundation’s priority themes .
- The applicant organisation must have a minimum of three years’ demonstrable experience working on participatory governance and advocacy within the area/theme(s) of the proposed project.
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