Deadline: 27-Oct-22
Irish Aid is inviting applications from Irish-based organisations for its Global Citizenship Education Grant Program to increase awareness and understanding of global development issues among the Irish public.
Global Citizenship Education is a lifelong educational process which aims to increase public knowledge and understanding of the rapidly changing, interdependent and unequal world in which we live. By challenging stereotypes and encouraging independent thinking, global eitizenship education helps people to critically explore how global justice issues interlink with their everyday lives.
Global Citizenship Education is transformative. It enables people to analyse and challenge the root causes and consequences of global poverty and inequality and to transform the social, cultural, political and economic structures which affect their lives and the lives of others. It aspires to change the way people think and act; empowering them to take action and become active global citizens in the creation of a fairer, more just, more secure and more sustainable world for all.
Characteristics
- Projects and programmes approved for global citizenship education funding share the following characteristics:
- Contribute to the learner’s knowledge and understanding of global justice issues and facilitate the learner to engage with multiple perspectives
- Enhance the learner’s skills and competencies, placing particular emphasis on the development of critical thinking skills
- Strengthen the leaner’s values and attitudes, supporting the learner to recognise their global interconnectedness and consequently their rights and responsibilities as global citizens
- Promote action at a local and global level, empowering the learner to engage in individual and/or collective action to bring about a positive difference in the world
Funding Information
- Each year, the minimum grant available under the GCE Grants Scheme is €10,000, while the maximum grant amount is €180,000. Grants are available for a maximum three-year period, and are limited to one per organisation for the duration of each grant.
Innovation
In order to promote innovation, a specific budget allocation to support an Innovation Challenge Fund is available within the broader GCE Grants Scheme. In the 2023 round, funding will be available to support the following forms of innovation:
- Product innovation: A good or service that is new or significantly improved. This includes significant improvements in technical specifications, components and materials, software in the product, user friendliness or other functional characteristics.
- Reaching new audiences for GCE in line with their strategic objective to “engage people from the broadest range of backgrounds, including those marginalised from formal education”.
- Use of new technologies to engage new learners of all ages in Ireland, including creating links with the Global South.
- Innovation in whole school or whole of institution approaches to embedding GCE.
- Innovative approaches to monitoring and evaluation.
- Other – partners are invited to set out clearly how their proposed initiative is innovative.
Eligibility Criteria
- Process innovation: A new or significantly improved production or delivery method. This includes significant changes in techniques, equipment and/or software.
- Marketing innovation: A new marketing method involving significant changes in product design or packaging, product placement, product promotion or pricing
- Organisational innovation: A new organisational method in business practices, workplace organisation or external relations
- An organisation must submit a completed Eligibility Criteria Form if they have:
- Not previously received Development Education/Global Citizenship Education funding from Irish Aid,
- Not previously completed and passed the eligibility phase under this funding scheme
- Not applied for and received funding over the last 3 years (2020, 2021 and 2022).
- Organisation Status: Applicant organisations must have current registration as a charity with either the Irish Charities Regulatory Authority or the Charities Commission of Northern Ireland for a minimum of 2 years prior to date of application, or hold an up to date Tax Clearance Certificate from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners. Organisations should be compliant with all the standards in the Irish Charites Regulatory Authority Governance Code and have met the annual reporting requirements.
- Governance: Applicant organisations must have a formal decision-making structure which can take legal responsibility for the administration and use of Irish Aid funds.
- Financial Accountability: Applicant organisations must have annual accounts available on their organisation’s website for the two most recent financial years which are both;
- Externally and independently audited, in cases where the annual organisational income exceeds €100,000;
- Available on the organisation’s website on 27/10/2022.
- Dependency on Irish Aid: Income received from Irish Aid, either directly or indirectly, must not exceed 90% of the overall organisational income of the applicant organisation.
- Funding Status: Applicant organisations in receipt of a Programme Grant from Irish Aid, or who are Strategic Partners of the Global Citizenship Education Unit, are not generally eligible to apply for the Global Citizenship Education grants, except in the case of applications for DEAR Co-funding.
- Focus of Work: Applicant organisations and/or institutions that are undertaking global citizenship education activities or education activities must include a global citizenship education perspective aimed at members of the public in Ireland.
- Record of Compliance: Applicant organisations previously in receipt of Irish Aid funds must have a record of compliance in terms of the administration and use of such funds, i.e. have submitted financial and narrative reports as per agreed schedules in previous contracts, and a signed Certificate of Assurance. Applicants which have a previous record of non-compliance with the terms of an Irish Aid contract will not be considered for funding.
- Child Protection: Organisations who work with children and young adults under the age of 18 must have child protection policies in place that compliant with the Children First Act 2015.
For more information, visit https://www.irishaid.ie/what-we-do/who-we-work-with/civil-society/development-education-funding/