Deadline: 21-Apr-23
The Embassy of Finland has announced an open call for the Finnish Fund for Local Cooperation (FLC).
Fund for Local cooperation is a funding tool for local civil society organisations and is a part of Finland’s Country Programme in Tanzania. It complements the Finnish-Tanzanian bilateral cooperation especially under the outcome area 1: Inclusive development through active citizenship.
The 2023 call is looking for project proposals, which aim at supporting;
The Embassy of Finland’s Fund for Local Cooperation (FLC) builds on the view that sustainable development cannot be achieved without an active civil society. In Tanzania, civil society organisations are needed both for their advocacy work as well as service delivery. The FLC aims to build partnerships between the civil society organisations and the Embassy of Finland, and to support the organisations so that they can operate more effectively.
With FLC, the organisations can, for example, influence policy processes, monitor government actions or enhance service delivery to vulnerable groups with the ultimate aim of poverty reduction and realization of human rights.
Funding Information
- The maximum funding for project support per organization is 85,000 euros for the period of two years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any organization/project selected for funding has to meet the following criteria and present the information in the proposal document:
- be ODA eligible
- be a registered Tanzanian non-governmental organization and legally competent
- have been operational for a minimum of three years
- have at least 10% of funding from at least one other source (in kind contribution are not accounted)
- have a functional board of directors
- be a non-partisan organization
- demonstrate past success in work human rights, media freedom, entrepreneurship and labor market skills for youth
- have a long term strategy, a solid financial management system including regular financial audits, and a reliable monitoring, evaluation and reporting system, including capability to report in English
- have a sufficient infrastructure and human resources
- demonstrate experience of working with an international donor
- FLC Partners are requested to apply key elements of Finnish development policy and quality standards, namely the Results Based Management (RBM), Human Rights Based Approach to Development (HRBA) and Cross-Cutting Objectives (CCOs) in their plans. They are an important part of the selection criteria for FLC applications, and projects /organizations which are assessed as Human Rights blind cannot be funded.
Ineligible
The Fund for Local Cooperation cannot support
- Governmental institutions and/or organizations
- A political party
- Projects in which the beneficiary is a single person, single family, scholarships
- Constructions
- Charity activities
- Purchasing land
- Finnish beneficiaries
- Basic research
- Humanitarian aid
- Microcredit systems
For more information, visit Embassy of Finland.