Deadline: 10-Sep-20
The Education Out Loud has launched the second and last Open Call for Concept Notes for Operational Component 3 (OC3) to support transnational civil society alliances to carry out innovative multi-country advocacy to influence transnational and national policy frameworks.
Operational Component 3 (OC3) aims to create a stronger global and transnational enabling environment for national civil society advocacy and transparency efforts.
The Concept Note submitted by an applicant needs to explain how the applicant and their alliance will:
- Create transnational and/or “vertically integrated” civil society alliances that represent diverse social actors and that are formed around identified strategic policy changes or areas related to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 and GPE.
- Increase transnational civil society alliances´ capacities, particularly in relation to advocacy.
- Change global, regional or national strategic policies or practices through civil society transnational alliances, advocacy and campaigns.
- Create or strengthen social accountability mechanisms, spaces, institutions or commissions that follow up on global, regional or national commitments related to the right to equitable and quality education.
- Establish and strengthen “Learning Collaboratives” on effective advocacy strategies.
In general terms, Concept Notes should be developed with the overall aim of:
- Opening up transnational policy debates to citizen voices and engaging more civic representatives embodying a wider range of opinions and lived realities in transnational spaces;
- Contributing to the democratization and responsiveness of transnational policymaking;
- Promoting policy agendas that are more responsive to citizens’ interests as rights holders; and
- Developing more conducive transnational and regional conditions for relevant national policy setting.
Education Out Loud is particularly keen on Concept Notes coming from alliances that include vertically integrated memberships and issue- or constituency-based networks, such as teachers’ or youth networks. ‘Vertical integration’ is understood to be inclusive alliances allowing for elevation of traditionally local/national voices into transnational policy arenas, and the coordination of citizen action across local, subnational, national and transnational levels.
Applicants are therefore expected to tie together convincingly interventions reaching from e.g. community to national and further on to regional and international levels.
Accordingly, this operational component calls for efforts to:
- connect national strategies and tactics in a multi-country approach to influence global and regional policies;
- elevate and connect traditionally excluded local and national voices in transnational and global policy arenas; and
- ensure that advocacy at transnational levels in turn is followed up and leveraged for an impact on national realities.
The strongest applications will be those that integrate a wide mix of voices and influencers seeking influence in regional (e.g. EU, ECOWAS, ADB), global (e.g. UN, WTO, ICC) or other transnational (e.g. G7, G20) policy spaces where pre-conditions of national policy are formed.
Funding Information
Education Out Loud Operational Component 3 (OC3) will provide grants for a period between 24 and 36 months from 2021-2024. All applications must be between USD450,000 and USD1,200,000; applications costed at less or more than this amount will not be accepted. Applications for OC3 of less than 24 or more than 36 months will not be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
- The present Call for Concept Notes falls under the Operational Component 3 which provides support for Transnational Alliances. This call aims to support transnational civil society alliances to carry out innovative multi-country advocacy to influence transnational and national policy frameworks.
- Proposals should be submitted by a single organisation, based anywhere in the world, on behalf of an alliance of civil society actors who are working to create an enabling environment for successful national education advocacy in GPE eligible countries. This should be undertaken in conjunction with at least one civil society actor originating in a partner developing country.
- The alliances of civil society actors should thus include partners working at national or sub-national level in a GPE partner country but may include partners working outside of GPE partner countries as well. International NGOs (INGOs) working solely with their national offices will not be considered as sufficiently diverse but would need to partner with other national or local civil society organisations in order to qualify. There is no limit to the number of organisations who may participate in an alliance, but each alliance must consist of a minimum of 3 unique organisations.
- The lead applicant must be a formally registered organisation/association with a bank account in the name of the organisation. It is not required for other members of the alliance to be registered organisations or associations.
- It will be considered favourable if the Alliance:
- includes actors not traditionally working in education but that have education as a cross-sectoral priority;
- includes actors not traditionally working in education but that have skills and tools which are relevant and/or scalable in education;
- reflects a diversity of approaches to advocacy which are complementary and will strengthen the wider education movement
- Applications from organisations which are already receiving funding from another OC will not be eligible for receiving additional funding from this component. Such organisations can, however, be considered partners for strategic collaboration within an applicant alliance for OC3 while demonstrating how this will help leverage the funding already received from another EOL OC.
For more information, visit https://educationoutloud.org/grants/open-now-open-call-concept-notes-component-3