Deadline: 23-May-21
ILGA Europe has launched a re-granting programme to strengthen the capacities of LGBTI organizations in Europe to achieve change in the current landscape of rising anti-LGBTI forces.
At ILGA-Europe, they believe that now is a crucial time to stay united, re-claim agency and pro-actively address growing anti-LGBTI and anti-gender rhetoric and state-led anti-LGBTI attacks. That’s why they have launched a scheme under which they will support efforts that enable work on communication, alliance building, and the movement’s cohesion and resilience.
Anti-LGBTI actors often use anti-equality, anti-democratic, anti-gender and anti-LGBTI rhetoric and tap into different fears and anxieties of specific national contexts. They aim to disrupt alliances, create divides, attack funding of LGBTI organizations and groups, and reduce or halt progressive laws. They also sow discontent and misinformation among the general public, scapegoat LGBTI communities to divert attention from the anti-democratic slide and socio-economic and political failures, deliberately instilling fear around topics of LGBTI rights, marriage equality, gender equality, adoption, inclusive sexual education, abortion rights, trans rights and gender studies.
Aim of the program
This programme aims to strengthen the capacities of LGBTI organizations to be(come) pro-active and to achieve change in the current context of growing populist anti-gender and anti-LGBTI rhetoric and state-led anti-LGBTI attacks. Under this programme we aim to do this through:
- Scaling-up skills, competences and capacities of the LGBTI movement in the areas of communication, alliance building, and sustaining a cohesive and resilient LGBTI movement;
- Developing new approaches and tactics for communication work, effective campaigning, alliance building and evidence-based advocacy on the rights and needs of LGBTI people in the context of rising anti-LGBTI forces.
Funding Information
- ILGA-Europe can support 10 to 15 grants in the size of €12.500 to €17.500. Projects involving two or more organisations working in a partnership can increase their budget to €20.000 in total.
Areas of Work
ILGA-Europe is looking for projects that will produce tangible results, have the potential of a sustainable impact, and fall into one or more of the three following areas of work:
- Work in communication that specifically addresses and counters anti-LGBTI misinformation, misrepresentation and harmful anti-gender and anti-LGBTI rhetoric
- Alliance building across civil society with relevant allies outside the LGBTI movement to have better and more aligned strategies to counter and withstand anti-LGBTI and anti-gender backlash, to seize opportunities and to (further) mobilize allies
- Support LGBTI movement cohesion and its capacity to be more resilient, inclusive and impactful in the face of growing anti-LGBTI and anti-gender rhetoric and state-led anti-LGBTI policies and practices.
Projects they are looking for
ILGA-Europe acknowledges that while a lot of funding has been made available by funders for advocacy purposes it’s been challenging to find financial and human resources, time and energy to do the necessary work in communication, alliance building and on the movement’s cohesion.
This scheme shifts the focus and supports projects aimed at work on communication, trust building and alliance building outside and inside the movement. They believe that strengthening these aspects of work will in return create conditions under which our long-term advocacy goals are more likely to be met. Therefore, this scheme is not designed to support projects that solely address advocacy goals. However, they strongly believe the work in the three areas described below can and will feed back into existing advocacy and campaigning work of LGBTI organizations.
Criteria
- Projects should respond to the aim, objectives, priorities and criteria of this call. The project should fit in one or more of the three areas of work outlined above.
- Projects should be implemented by LGBTI-run organisations and initiative groups in Europe
- Considering the size of grants, your organisation will need to show how you will be able to manage the funds. Organisations should demonstrate their capacity to successfully implement projects, both substantively as well as administratively.
- In selecting proposals, ILGA-Europe will prioritise projects that:
- Present a clear plan for how the envisaged change is going to come about by providing a good analysis of the current context and define the steps that will be taken to work towards the envisioned change;
- Seek to establish practices/tools/solutions that can live beyond the project’s lifetime and that have the potential to enhance the movement’s thinking on addressing anti gender and anti-LGBTI rhetoric and attacks in a longer-term perspective;
- Are submitted by organisations working in challenging circumstances where their work has been severely affected by the current anti-gender and/or anti-LGBTI rhetoric and/or state-led anti-LGBTI attacks and they have limited or no access to the funding to do the much-needed work in the areas covered by this scheme.
For more information, visit https://ilga-europe.org/responding-to-anti-lgbti-forces