Deadline: 2-Jun-22
The Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) is pleased to announce a call for applications to House-to-House Project Fund.
HRHF welcomes all Human Rights Houses, their member organisations as well as organisations and actors from outside of the network to apply for funding.
This unique funding opportunity provides support for creative and strategic projects to advance human rights priorities in countries with Human Rights Houses. The House-to-House Project Fund supports dynamic civil society-led projects to address specific and local human rights challenges. In implementing these projects Human Rights Houses and their member organizations have opportunities to work with other Human Rights Houses and broader civil society organizations and actors in their communities and countries.
Components
HRHF will prioritise support to the projects which include one or more of the following components:
- Propose new partnerships, including with individuals, movements and actors beyond the network and traditional human rights organisations, also actors working outside of the capital cities
- Positively impact the human rights situation across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and/or Western Balkans;
- Propose cost-sharing or in-kind contributions by applicant organizations (i.e. – meeting room space, accommodation in House-owned premises, co-funding, etc.; and,
- Make use of existing resources within the network of Human Rights Houses, such as reports, exhibitions, booklets, education material of ILIA programme, etc.
Eligible Projects
- In 2022, HRHF will prioritize applications for projects in eligible countries which specifically focus on one of the following topics:
- Advocacy related to the freedoms of association, assembly, or expression and the freedom to be a human rights defender. This may include efforts to strengthen domestic policies and legislation, increase accountability of local authorities and institutions, and/or strengthen international mechanisms and standards.
- Promotion and protection of the freedoms of association, assembly, or expression and the freedom to be a human rights defender in an eligible country.
- Human rights education and awareness raising, including through involvement of youth or professional groups.
- Protection of human rights defenders and human rights organizations.
- Promotion of healthy organizational culture and burnout prevention among human rights organizations.
- Support to vulnerable groups, such as women and children, minorities, people in remote areas.
Eligible Project Countries
Eligibility Criteria
- The House-to-House Project Fund 2022 is designed to support collaborative projects implemented by Human Rights House network partners (Houses and members of the Houses) in collaboration with other civil society organisations.
- To qualify for support, project partners must be:
- A Human Rights House or a member organization of a Human Rights House
- one or more of the following:
- Another Human Rights House
- A member organization of another Human Rights House
- A civil society organization, actor, individual from outside of the network
- Human Rights Houses and member organizations of Human Rights Houses can only be main applicants in 2 projects. They can, however, join projects where another organization is the lead partner.
For more information, visit https://humanrightshouse.org/articles/house-to-house-2022-call-for-applications/