Deadline: 28-Feb-25
Applications are now open for the Community of Action Grant.
To support this vision, they aim to have a partner who will serve and maintain platforms for sustained exchange, learning, and joint action among Civil Society Actors, guided by local ownership and influence over policy and practice.
The primary role of Community of Action Facilitator will be to:
- Create and maintain inclusive, rights holder-led spaces to strengthen solidarity and trust among participants
- Facilitate activities, administer meeting logistics, and support collaboration
- Promote local ownership while receiving strategic support from Hivos and other CDA Partners (CDA Core Group), including comparative linking and learning across contexts and external outreach to stakeholders.
Objectives
- By promoting coalition building among diverse civil society actors, including human rights defenders, rights holder-led civil society organizations, and independent media actors, grounded in civil society-led evidence gathering and knowledge production, and facilitated by context-specific communities of action.
- By contributing to safe and inclusive digital civic spaces for sustained collaboration and action among civil society actors through localized holistic digital security capacity strengthening, knowledge production, and active referral to digital protection providers.
- By increasing civil society actors’ flexibility to rapidly respond to changes in civic space through organizational capacity strengthening and the provision of strategic funding for sustainable action.
- The project aims to strategically support relevant actors within civil society whose work actively to contribute to civic space from the perspective of different sectors and interests, particularly including groups who are marginalized within civil society, such as women, youth, marginalized persons, indigenous people, and others.
Funding Information
- The total amount of Community of Action Grants is: EUR 23,000 for one organization annually. Applications proposed by the candidates should be within this range.
Criteria
- Specifically, they are looking for organizations that meet the following criteria:
- Registered and based in Malawi, working either at the local, regional, or national level
- Skilled and experienced in monitoring community of action programing
- Proven track record in defending human rights and civic space, particularly the rights of marginalized rights holders
- Adequate operational and financial management experience
- Clean human rights record, with no involvement in sexual violence
- Strong commitment to intersectionality, demonstrated through their work and principles
- Led by, or closely collaborating with, youth, women, and diverse groups
- Willing to challenge the status quo of Malawi’s civic space and collaborate with other stakeholders to connect, defend, and act to protect and expand civic space
Participation
- This is an open call, Hivos invites proposals from organizations that are legally registered/established in their state of origin and are entitled to perform the obligations of such contracts or engagements.
- To be eligible for participation in this call procedure, organizations must prove to the satisfaction of Hivos that they comply with the necessary legal, technical and financial requirements and have the ability to carry out the contract effectively.
- Any attempt by the organization to obtain confidential information, enter into unlawful agreements with competitors or influence the evaluation committee or Hivos during the process of examining, clarifying and evaluation will lead to one or more of the following; disqualification in this call, rejection of its offer(s)/bid, or legal consequences, or debarred from future calls/procurements where applicable.
- Organizations must at all times act loyally and impartially in accordance with the code of conduct of their profession. They must refrain from making public statements about the project or services without Hivos’ prior written approval. They may not commit Hivos in any way without prior written consent.
- Organizations and their staff are obliged to maintain professional secrecy; all reports, documents and information provided by Hivos are confidential and should be treated as such.
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