Call for Proposals: Carta Magna and Equalities Enabling Fund in Guatemala and Honduras

Deadline: 15-Nov-2024

The British Embassy is now accepting project proposals for Magna Carta Fund and Equalities Enabling Fund.

Program Information

• Magna Carta Fund 
  • The Magna Carta Fund (MCF) is the Human Rights Department’s flagship programme for providing small-scale, agile funding for diplomatic missions to carry out impactful, strategically driven human rights work.
• Equalities Enabling Fund 
  • The Equalities Enabling Fund is part of the Promoting Equalities Programme, which aims to strengthen FCDO’s global work on gender and equalities. This Fund will help to deliver better for women, girls, and marginalised groups, including LGBT+ communities and people with disabilities.
  • The Fund provides small-scale funds to support new activity around gender and equalities which aims to enable or mobilise work on these topics. It covers equalities in the broad sense and diplomatic mission can decide the specific thematic focus they take, dependent on in-country context.
  • They expect to fund projects covering a wide range of themes. Expressions of interest will be reviewed by a panel including members of the Gender & Equalities Department, the Women and Girls Department and external programme partners, Plan International, Social Development Direct and Sightsavers. Decisions will be taken by the Programme Board.

Topics

• Magna Carta Fund 
  • These are examples of some of the main topics the fund covers, although this is not an exhaustive list, and they are open to other thematic areas if you can demonstrate their close connection to human rights work in your country:
    • Promotion of the universality of human rights.
    • Support for human rights defenders/activists – protecting human rights defenders, capacity building, training.
    • Support to civil society organisations’ (CSOs) human rights activity – capacity building, training, increased CSO engagement with human rights work.
    • Strengthening human rights institutions and/or rule of law – improved reporting of human rights violations, improved mechanisms of accountability.
    • Access to justice – torture prevention, death penalty, criminal justice/penal reform.
    • Modern slavery – human rights in business and supply chains.
    • Engagement with the UN and other international/regional human rights institutions.
    • Countering influence of malign actors/states through human rights work.
    • International justice, including war crimes accountability.
    • Conflict minerals and private security standards.
• Equalities Enabling Fund 
  • Examples of some of the main themes the Fund cover are below, though this is not an exhaustive list:
    • Promoting LGBT+ rights and inclusion.
    • Promoting disability rights and inclusion.
    • Ending violence against women and girls (including FGM).
    • Building and strengthening inclusive social protection programmes and systems.
    • Reducing inequality and exclusion based on race, ethnicity, migrant/refugee status.
    • Countering rollback on the rights of women and LGBT+ communities.
    • Reducing inequality and exclusion based on economic status.
    • Researching and developing a report to inform new inclusion policies at institutions.
    • Hosting a series of round tables for business engagement on the economic/growth case for equality.
    • Funding training sessions for local institutions, to sensitise them to gender and equalities issues.
    • Supporting men and boys to be allies to gender equality.
    • Engaging grassroots activists in rural or remote locations.

Funding Information

• Allocations of between £10,000 – £150,000 ODA (Official Development Assistance) can be available for Magna Carta Fund.
• Allocations of between £10,000 – £40,000 ODA can be available for Equalities Enabling Fund.

Success Criteria

• Magna Carta Fund 
  • Activities are value for money (VfM) and cost-efficient.
  • Clear and achievable deliverables within the funding period.
  • Sustainability – project benefits continue after the funding ends.
  • Good project design, which includes established monitoring and evaluation procedures
  • Project feasibility, including capacity of implementing organisation and ability to deliver under current circumstances.
  • Identification of risks and established mitigation strategies.
  • The organisation’s safeguarding policies which ensure gender equality and the protection of beneficiaries.
• Equalities Enabling Fund 
  • Strategic alignment: the project proposal delivers against FCDO Gender and Equalities priorities.
  • Enabling: The project creates capability and capacity to deliver future work promoting equalities.
  • Inclusive: the project proactively engages multiple excluded groups throughout design and delivery.
  • Accessible: the project proactively supports the involvement of different excluded groups, including through design, delivery, and budgeting.
  • Intersectional: the project considers the impact of multiple identities (disability, gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, religion, nationality, etc.) and how they can intersect to influence different individuals and groups experience of exclusion.

For more information, visit British Embassy.