Deadline: 26-Apr-24
The Embassy of Canada in South Sudan 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.
Thematic Priorities
- All projects must align with the following CFLI thematic priorities:
- Local responses to the re-settlement of South Sudanese returnees from the Sudan crisis.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and
- Democracy/civic space/enabling environment, including elections.
- More specifically, projects should focus on supporting enterprises or individuals to become more competitive and innovative while addressing cross-cutting issues of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
Funding Information
- The average CFLI contribution is $30,000 to $40,000 Canadian dollars.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible recipients include:
- Local non-governmental, community based and not-for-profit organizations.
- Local academic institutions working on local projects,
- International non-governmental organizations working on local development activities; and
- 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.
- 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.
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,
Languages
- Proposals must be completed in English or French.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.
