Deadline: 14-Dec-21
The Global Partnership for Social Accountability’s (GPSA) Fifth Global Call for Proposals (CfPs) is launching, to invite grant proposals from eligible civil society organizations (CSOs) for collaborative social accountability, that seek to bring solutions to development and governance challenges in their countries working with government counterparts and CSO partners.
The 5th Call seeks specifically proposals for collaborative social accountability that can contribute to strengthening of health systems – as part of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and to action to address climate change. It is encouraging proposals to integrate social inclusion and, where appropriate, harnessing of civic technologies that can support engagement of citizens.
Kosovo’s in-Country Call for Proposal aims to support models of collaborative social accountability to enhance the capacity of the government institutions to better deliver on their Green Agenda commitments. Proposals could cover various areas of government capacity enhancement in areas such as green policy / program planning, implementation and monitoring, and environmental management and oversight.
They should propose pilot actions that engage youth and leverage CivicTech to provide innovative solutions that promote information access, public awareness, consensus building, and / or stakeholder engagement around green transition issues. The selected proposal will include clear measures for monitoring and evaluating pilot outcomes and include indicators for capacity enhancement, scalability, and sustainability of the government-civil society partnership.
Objectives
Grants are intended to provide strategic and sustained support to civil society organizations (CSO) projects with the following objectives:
- Addressing critical green transition challenges through collaborative social accountability processes geared at enhancing public-sector institutions’ capacities to address these challenges.
- Strengthening civil society’s capacities for social accountability in environment and energy sector by investing in CSOs’ institutional strengthening and strategic CSO partnerships.
Theme: Partnerships for Green Transition: Climate Action / Civic Technology
Funding Information
- GPSA grant amounts will range between around USD $ 400,000- $ 500,000 over a period of three to four years. Grants must close by December 30, 2025 as the GPSA Multi-Donor Trust Fund closes June 30, 2026.
- However, requests for funding this range will also be considered, and the total amount granted may be lower than US $ 400,000 to US $ 500,000. The total envelope for this CfP is approximately US $ 5.5. million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only applications from CSOs in the shortlisted countries within the descripted national theme will be eligible.
- CSOs include legal entities that are part of a broad-based sector of organizations which operate in the public sphere and interact with the state, market, communities and individuals. The sector encompasses a wide range and variety of non-governmental, not for profit entities -including media – associating, associating to advance the interests and values of their members or others based on cultural, economic, social, religious, political or other aims. They include charitable organizations, faith-based organizations, professional organizations, labor unions, workers’ organizations, associations of elected local representatives, foundations and policy development and research institutes, and more. If your organization is a non-profit international inter-governmental organization, it is not eligible to apply for a grant.
- CSOs with current legal status in the GPSA opted-in country, and proven track-record in the social accountability field can respond to the CfP. They will submit their applications directly to the GPSA.
- The GPSA will not support:
- Entities or groups with partisan associations
- Grant applications which include activities which, because of the high inherent risk of political interference, are likely to raise issues related to the World Bank’s mandate as enshrined in its Articles of Agreement. These activities include political dimensions in governance, for instance, support of efforts to help organize political parties, or to the organization, running and monitoring of elections; political campaigning; and
- Grant applicat ions which include sectarian and religious proselytizing activities.
Grant Selection
- The Call prioritizes CSO-led collaborative social accountability approaches that entail coalition efforts that engage local communities and citizens including vulnerable groups, and work with public sectors, at local, state and federal levels. The goal is to co-create solutions to jointly identified problems in the selected thematic areas. Information generated from social accountability processes can enable for corrective measures to be taken, and improvement of policy implementation and delivery of services.
- CSO proposals will need to show how they will include marginalized and vulnerable groups in the social accountability processes. Importantly, it will be critical to make the links between the CSO-led processes and appropriate reform initiatives or programs led by the public sector at the local, state and federal levels. This will also be important in order to identify paths to scaling up the CSO-led mechanisms, and indeed their institutionalization through government delivery systems.
- Lead CSOs will also demonstrate clear objectives and methods for strengthening both civil society and state capacities, particularly for working adaptively and collaboratively, and for advancing social accountability knowledge and learning from implementation.
For more information, visit https://thegpsa.org/country/kosovo/