Deadline: 18-Nov-21
The Government of Canada has announced the applications for Support to Inclusive Governance in Ukraine.
Objectives
- This call will support projects in Ukraine that are consistent with the Inclusive Governance Action Area Policy of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. It will support projects that strengthen the capacity of local and national government and non-government actors to respond in a more inclusive, transparent and accountable manner to the needs of all citizens, including women and girls and other vulnerable or marginalized groups, while also supporting their empowerment to claim their rights.
- Specifically, the call will fund proposals that are aligned with Canada’s Inclusive Governance Policy priorities of enhancing participation in public life and ensuring that public services work for everyone.
- To help meet these priorities in Ukraine, Global Affairs Canada will only consider concept notes that propose to work in at least one of the following three inclusive governance areas:
- support to civil society organizations and citizen engagement, including civic education;
- support to local governance and local, district, and regional governments, in the context of decentralization and regional development reforms in Ukraine, with a particular focus on sectoral decentralization (such as, but not limited to, delivery of social services and domestic resource mobilization at the local level); and,
- support to public administration reform, including local, district and regional level public administrations, inclusive policy making and local public finance management.
Funding Information
The total amount of funding available under the Support to Inclusive Governance in Ukraine call for concept notes is up to $30 million over 5 years. Global Affairs Canada may fund up to 3 proposals.
Outcome
Under this call, your proposed project must contribute to the achievement of enhancing democratic, inclusive and gender equal governance in Ukraine that is effective in meeting the needs of all Ukrainians.
Project parameters
- Value: You are requesting Global Affairs Canada funding of at least $10 million and no more than $15 million.
- Duration: Your proposed project will last 5 years.
- Geographic focus: The geographic focus of your project is in Ukraine
- Language: Your application package documents are complete and presented in either English or French or a combination of these 2 languages.
- Non-profit project: The proposed project would not generate a profit for the applicant or any partner organizations
- Locally driven concept note: Your organization identifies local partner(s) involved in the design of the project, and those that will be involved in its implementation and has included information about them. It is understood that the extent of details to be provided at the concept stage may be limited.
- Cost sharing: Your organization and your co-signatory(ies) will provide at least 5% of the total eligible direct project costs over the life of the project in cash and/or in-kind in accordance with Global Affairs Canada’s Policy on Cost-Sharing for Grant and Non-Repayable Contribution Agreements.
Additional Guidance
Preference will be given to concept notes that incorporate one or more of the following:
- Demonstrate collaboration, in the form of partnerships with civil society organizations, local government and other partners, research institutes, community and professional organizations, and the private sector that help to enable the scaling up and sustainability of innovative and evidence-based approaches to address persistent challenges.
- Seek to promote inclusiveness and a culture of integrity, and strengthen the participation of all stakeholders, regardless of age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, race, religion, disability, migrant or refugee status.
- Leverage additional funding sources to contribute to the proposed initiative, including through increased cost sharing beyond the minimum requirement of 5%
- Include a component that targets youth (young women and men, as well as youth from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups);
- Incorporate considerations about environmental impacts and promote practices and policies that are environmentally sustainable, reduce the effects of climate change and foster biodiversity (whenever possible);
- Seek to implement corruption prevention practices;
- Put forward a systems-thinking approach to tackle the root cause(s) of the inclusive governance challenges identified in the analysis of each respective concept note;
- Seek to reduce and addresses the unequal distribution of paid and unpaid care work, and that supports and protects the rights of paid and unpaid care workers;
- Incorporate a conflict-sensitive approach which takes into account the impact of the proposed intervention on conflict and peace dynamics, and the impact of these dynamics on the proposed intervention.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization is a legally incorporated non-governmental organization (NGO) or private sector organization from Canada, Ukraine or any other country, and you have provided proof of legal status for your registration (if your original documentation is in a language other than French or English, provide a scan of the original, as well as a translation).
- If your organization is Canadian, you must also provide a Canada Revenue Agency business number
- You are not a sovereign entity (a government of a country) or multilateral institution, international member-based organization, or international financial institution (IFI).
- You must provide 2 separate financial statements for the most recent fiscal years for each organization that will sign the funding agreement with Global Affairs Canada (audited statements are preferred; if these are not available, the statements must be signed by a member of the board of directors of the organization, by the board’s delegate or by the owner(s). Note: since financial statements usually provide comparative information from the previous year, these statements will be used to do a 3-year trend analysis.)
- You must submit only 1 concept note as the lead applicant under this call. Note: If your organization submits more than 1 application as a signatory on an application under this call, they will only consider the application with the earliest submission time stamp.
- You must provide an Organization Attestation signed by the organization’s chief financial officer or a duly authorized board member
For more information, visit https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/funding-financement/inclusive_governance-gouvernance-ukraine.aspx?lang=eng
