Call for Proposals: Youth-Led Advocacy and Awareness on Youth Human Rights (Palestine)

Deadline: 07-Jul-2024

Enabel has announced a call for proposals to contribute to the protection of vulnerable boys and girls, young women and men, and their caregivers against human rights violations and empower them to claim their rights.

Objectives 

• The specific objective of this call for proposals is: Strengthened role of Palestinian youth as social actors for positive change in youth human rights protection within their communities. The achievements will be measured by at least the following indicators:
  • The percentage of change in awareness by young people including university students regarding advocacy skills and human rights protection mechanisms.
  • The number of civic engagement initiatives led by youth inside and outside campus.
  • The number of human rights complaints documented and raised to Palestinian duty bearers by young people. The number of human rights complaints processed by the Palestinian duty bearers.

Sectors or Theme 

• The action proposal will provide activities for young people including university students aged 17-29 years old in the field of:
  • youth human rights promotion and awareness raising,
  • Advocacy and accountability towards Palestinian Authority on youth human rights, and
  • civic engagement of youth in their universities and their local communities.

Funding Information

• The total indicative amount available under this Call for Proposals is 198,000 EUR (One hundred Ninety-Eight thousand Euros). The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all of the available funds.

Duration 

• The initial planned duration of an action may not be less than 20 months nor exceed 26 months.

Expected Results

• The expected results of this call for proposals include the following:
  • Improved awareness of youth human rights among young people including university students and their local communities.
  • Enhanced awareness and practice of advocacy tools and activities related to youth human rights among university students and their local communities.
  • Increased knowledge and practice of accountability towards the Palestinian duty bearers by university students.
  • Strengthened youth civic engagement and participation on issues related to their human rights identified by them, in universities and their local communities.

Types of Activities 

• Types of activity admissible for financing under this Call for Proposals:
  • Establishing human rights and advocacy “clubs/hubs” that engage students in project activities. The structure of the clubs/hubs is sustainable beyond the project duration.
  • Capacity development for university students in the field of human rights, advocacy, monitoring of human rights violations, and civic engagement.
  • Support to student-led initiatives that address human rights issues and social problems as identified by the students and to be implemented inside campus and/or in their own communities.
  • Advocacy efforts and activities with Palestinian decision and policy makers in the field of youth human rights.
  • Increased opportunities for university students to practice accountability towards the Palestinian Authority as the duty bearer.
  • Enhancing networking between the concerned universities in the field of youth human rights promotion, monitoring of human rights violations, civic engagement, and advocacy.
  • Involving youth already-existing forums and clusters in project activities.
• All actions must be in line with and contribute to the international law standards and youth protection objectives and must adhere to the human rights-based approach.

Target Groups 

• This call for proposals will directly target students at a number of Palestinian universities, with a focus on the most vulnerable and marginalized students, especially female students, and students with disability.
• The indirect beneficiaries will include duty bearers (Palestinian authority and other decision makers), local communities of university students, relevant stakeholders and CSOs, other groups such as family members of the youth, community members, and decision makers in the field of youth human rights protection.

Geographical Coverage 

• The actions must be implemented in the West Bank and East Jerusalem areas. Action proposals must include both areas.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants
  • To be admissible for grants, the applicant must satisfy the following conditions:
    • be a legal person; or
    • be a non-profit private entity or a foundation; and
    • be established or represented in Palestine; and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s), if any, and not be acting as an intermediary; and
    • have an active bank account for the past 24 months; and
    • have audited financial statements (income statement and balance sheet) of the last closed financial year.

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