Deadline: 5-Feb-24
The Office of the High Commission of Canada in Zambia 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 in developing countries, 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 relevant Canadian diplomatic mission. The CFLI also serves to support positive bilateral relations between Canada and recipient countries and their civil societies, by deepening contacts and supporting local endeavours.
Thematic Priorities
- All projects must align with the following CFLI thematic priority:
- Growth that works for everyone, including women’s economic rights, decent jobs and entrepreneurship and safeguarding economic gains.
- More specifically, projects should focus on supporting enterprises or individuals to become more competitive and innovative through enhancing trade competitiveness in regional or global markets and increase employment and market opportunities.
- Cross-cutting priority: Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
Funding Information
- The average CFLI contribution is $30,000 to $40,000 Canadian dollars.
Gender-Based Analysis
- In 2017, Canada adopted its 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 application process now requires a gender-based analysis (GBA). The purpose of this change is to enhance the gender equality outcomes of the CFLI program.
- A GBA will require applicants to:
- consider how women, girls, men, and boys are affected differently by the problem their project is aiming to address, ensuring, at the same time, that the project does not cause harm
- consult women and/or girls in the development of their project proposal
- ensure that the views of those women and/or girls inform the project’s design
- Note that consultations can include, but are not limited to, speaking to women and girls from the local community, women and other individuals who work for civil society organizations that have worked in the local community and female and male decision and change makers who have knowledge of the local community.
- Inadequate completion of a GBA may affect the consideration of your proposal.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible recipients include:
- Local non-governmental, community and not for-profit organizations,
- Local academic institutions working on local projects,
- International non-governmental organizations working on local development activities,
- Canadian non-governmental and not for-profit organizations that are working on local development activities.
- CFLI funding is to be directed toward local civil society organizations (including non-governmental organizations) and other institutions working at the local level. The CFLI is always looking to fund innovative projects that deliver measurable results.
Ineligible
- The following costs are not eligible for CFLI funding:
- nuclear technologies and facilities,
- assistance to military or paramilitary organizations,
- gifts,
- luxury goods,
- direct fiscal support to a government,
- seed funding and/or microfinance,
- core funding or recurrent costs of an organization.
For more information, visit Office of the High Commission of Canada in Zambia.