Deadline: 9 June 2016
The Disability Rights Fund (DRF) is accepting letters of inquiry (LOIs) for its second grant-making round – small grants, mid-level coalition grants and national coalition grants 2016, with an aim to strengthen their participation in the advancement of human rights of persons with disabilities.
Grant Categories
- Small Grants: The Small Grants funding stream helps organizations to build a broader movement to advance the CRPD at state or local levels. Organizations can use funds from DRF to strengthen the capacity of PWDs to participate more actively in decision-making processes in CRPD implementation and monitoring or to advocate for the advancement of rights defined in specific articles of the CRPD.
- Mid-level Coalition Grants: The Mid-Level Coalition funding stream supports civil society coalitions at sub-national levels to ensure that national legislation and policy addressing the rights of PWDs is implemented at these levels, including through establishment of budgets.
- National Coalition Grants: The National Coalition funding stream supports advancement of the CRPD at national levels through lobbying for legislative changes (including but not limited to CRPD ratification), monitoring and reporting on implementation of the CRPD or other international human rights mechanisms, or following up on the recommendations made by UN human rights mechanisms to States in regard to implementation of the rights of persons with disabilities (PWDs).
Priority Areas
- For Small Grants
- Increasing DPO Participation in Decision-Making Processes at State or Local Levels
- Increasing DPO Participation in Decision-Making Processes Related to Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Addressing Implementation of CRPD Articles
- Addressing Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Ratification Efforts (in the Pacific Island Countries only)
- For Mid-Level Coalition Grant:
- Passage of specific legislation or policy at the sub-national level to accord with the CRPD
- Advocacy to national or international agencies responsible for development planning to ensure that national action plans and programs aiming to implement the SDGs are inclusive of persons with disabilities and use the CRPD as a guiding document
- Advocacy for governmental budgetary measures to implement the CRPD at the sub-national level
- In Pacific Island countries only: Ratification of the CRPD and/or the Optional Protocol (where not ratified).
- For National Coalition Grants
- Ratification of the CRPD and/or the Optional Protocol (where not ratified)
- Passage of specific national legislation to accord with the CRPD
- Production of and/or follow up to alternative reports to the CRPD Committee
- Production of and/or follow up to reports submitted to other UN human rights monitoring mechanisms such as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Human Rights Council or to other Committees of Experts from other human rights treaties
- Advocacy to national or international agencies responsible for development planning to ensure that national action plans and programs aiming to implement the SDGs are inclusive of persons with disabilities and use the CRPD as a guiding document
- Advocacy to ensure formal inclusion of DPO representatives in national governmental implementation and/or monitoring of the CRPD
Grants Information
- Small Grants: Small Grants are one-year grants ranging between USD 5,000-20,000.
- Mid-Level Coalition Grant: Mid-Level Coalition grant amounts range from USD 30,000 – 40,000 per year (USD 60,000 to 80,000 over the course of two years).
- National Coalition Grants: National Coalition grants are two-year grants ranging between USD 30,000-50,000 per year (USD 60,000 to 100,000 over the course of two years).
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