Deadline: 12 July 2019
As part of the second grantmaking round of 2019, Disability Rights Fund (DRF) has opened a Letters of Interest (LoI) process for Uganda.
DRF grants support both capacity of marginalized and emergent groups of persons with disabilities (PWDs) to advocate for rights and inclusion and ongoing efforts of national, state, provincial, regional, and district level DPOs to advance implementation of the CRPD and the SDGs.
In 2019, any applicants who did not receive a National Coalition, Mid-Level Coalition, or Small Grant in 2018, may submit the Letter of Interest (LoI).
Funding Streams
The Disability Rights Fund has three open funding streams:
- Small Grants: The Small Grants funding stream supports growth of a broader and more diverse disability movement to advance the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) at state and local levels.
- Priority Areas
- Increasing DPO capacity to participate in advocacy and decision-making processes regarding implementation of rights at local levels
- Advocacy for inclusion of persons with disabilities in government programs – such as education, health or justice – and in government budget planning and implementation at the local level
- Increasing DPO capacity to participate in advocacy and decision-making processes regarding implementation of the SDGs
- Advocacy for inclusion of persons with disabilities in local government development programs (as part of SDG implementation) and in government budget planning and implementation
- In Pacific Island countries only: Ratification of the CRPD and/or the Optional Protocol (where not ratified)
- Priority Areas
- 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 is implemented at these levels, including through establishment of budgets.
- Priority Areas
- Passage of specific sub-national legislation (including ordinances), policy, regulations, and/or budgetary priorities to accord with the CRPD
- Advocacy for inclusion of persons with disabilities in government programs, such as education, health or justice, at the state (in a federal system), provincial, regional or district level in line with CRPD articles
- Advocacy to ensure that development stakeholders and development planning at sub-national levels, to implement the SDGs, are inclusive of persons with disabilities and use the CRPD as a guiding document
- In Pacific Island countries only: Ratification of the CRPD and/or the Optional Protocol (where not ratified)
- Priority Areas
- National Coalition Grants: The National Coalition funding stream supports advancement of the CRPD at national levels through lobbying for legislative (including but not limited to CRPD/OP ratification), policy, and budgetary changes, monitoring and reporting on implementation of the CRPD or other international human rights mechanisms as they relate to persons with disabilities, or following up on recommendations made by UN human rights mechanisms to States in regard to implementation of the rights of persons with disabilities (PWDs).
- Priority Areas
- Ratification of the Optional Protocol (OP) to the CRPD (where not ratified)
- Passage or amendment of specific national legislation and policies to accord with the CRPD
- Advocacy for budgetary measures as well as regulations to implement new or amended legislation and policy promoting the rights of persons with disabilities
- Production of and/or follow up to Alternative Reports to the CRPD Committee and other human rights treaty bodies or reports to the Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
- Engagement with national government SDG focal point, civil society SDG platforms, and National Statistics Offices to ensure national action plans, programs, monitoring frameworks and data collection methods for implementing and monitoring the SDGs are inclusive of persons with disabilities and use the CRPD as a guiding document
- Advocacy to ensure inclusion of a disability perspective in national governmental implementation and/or monitoring of the CRPD
- Priority Areas
Funding Information
- Small Grants: Grant amounts range from USD 5,000 – USD 20,000. Grants will support activities to be implemented over a period of one year.
- Mid-Level Coalition Grants: Grant amounts will range from USD 30,000 – 40,000 per year (USD 60,000 – 80,000 over the course of two years). Grants will support activities to be implemented over the course of two years, however grants are given one year at a time. A second year grant will be awarded only with satisfactory completion of the first year.
- National Coalition Grants: Grant amounts will range from USD 30,000 – 50,000 per year (USD 60,000 – 100,000 over the course of two years). Grants will support activities to be implemented over the course of two years, however grants are given one year at a time. A second year grant will be awarded only with satisfactory completion of the first year.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to submit a LoI for the Small Grants, Mid-Level Coalition Grants, or National Coalition Grants funding streams, potential applicants must answer “yes” to all of the following questions:
- Is your organization a new applicant for DRF/DRAF funding? OR, if you have received a grant from DRF/DRAF before, was your organization not a grant recipient in 2018?
- Is your organization a local (as opposed to international) organization based in Uganda?
- Is your organization a disabled persons’ organization (DPO), primarily governed by and composed of persons with disabilities?
- Does your organization advocate for the advancement of rights of persons with disabilities?
- Does your organization have legal registration and an organizational bank account (or fiscal sponsorship from an organization with legal registration and an organizational bank account)?
- Does the proposed project fit at least one of DRF’s priority areas (described above) for the Small Grant, Mid-Level Coalition Grant, or National Coalition Grants funding stream?
Mid-Level Coalition LoI applicants must answer “yes” to the following additional questions:
- Will the proposed project be led by a DPO?
- Will the lead DPO in the proposed project work in coalition with at least two other organizations?
- Does your organization work at sub-national, including state (in a federal system), provincial, regional, or district levels?
- Does the work your project proposes to do intend to reach sub-national, including state (in a federal system), provincial, regional, or district levels?
- Is your organization able to provide two past years of income and expenditure reports?
National Coalition LoI applicants must answer “yes” to the following additional questions:
- Will the proposed project be led by a DPO?
- Will the lead DPO in the project work in coalition with at least two other organizations?
- Does your organization work at the national level?
- Does the proposed project have national scope?
- Is your organization able to provide two past years of income and expenditure reports?
If you answered “yes” to the above questions, you may proceed with submitting a LoI.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit their LOIs via email at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit http://disabilityrightsfund.org/2019-round-2-loi/