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Grants to support Small-Scale, High-Impact Projects in Mozambique

Deadline: 09-Jun-2024

The High Commission of Canada to the Republic of Mozambique is pleased to launch its annual call for proposals for the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).

The CFLI is a program designed to support small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries, which align with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priority areas for engagement. The program is directed at projects conceived and designed predominantly by local partners. Projects are selected and approved by the relevant Canadian embassy or high commission. The CFLI also serves to support positive bilateral relations between Canada and recipient countries and their civil societies, by deepening contacts and supporting local endeavours.

Thematic Priorities
  • Unlike in previous year, only projects addressing the at least one of the following thematic priorities will be considered:
    • Inclusive governance, including:
      • Promoting and Protecting Human Rights
      • Democracy and Freedom of Expression
      • Promoting and Protecting 2SLGBTQI+ Rights
      • Equitable Access to a Functioning Justice System
      • Peaceful Pluralism & Respect for Diversity
      • Public Services that Work for Everyone
    • Peace and security, including:
      • Conflict prevention and peacebuilding
      • Multilateral management of peace and security challenges
      • Supporting inclusive and gender-responsive violence and extremism prevention, crisis response and sustainable peace in conflict-affected areas
      • Supporting gender-responsive security threat reduction and security system reform, including through the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Funding Information
  • The average CFLI contribution is between CAD $25,000 to CAD$50,000. In exceptional cases, projects of up to CAD $100,000 may be considered.
Gender-Based Analysis
  • In 2017, Canada adopted its Feminist International Assistance Policy to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as the most effective way to reduce poverty and build a more inclusive, peaceful and prosperous world. In alignment with this policy, the CFLI project application process now requires a gender-based analysis (GBA). The purpose of this change is to enhance the gender equality outcomes of the CFLI program.
  • A GBA will require applicants to:
    • consider how women, girls, men, and boys are affected differently by the problem their project is aiming to address, ensuring, at the same time, that the project does not cause harm.
    • consult women and/or girls in the development of their project proposal.
    • ensure that the views of those women and/or girls inform the project’s design.
  • Note that consultations can include, but are not limited to, speaking to women and girls from the local community, women and other individuals who work for civil society organizations that have worked in the local community and female and male decision and change makers who have knowledge of the local community.
  • Inadequate completion of a GBA may affect the consideration of your proposal.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Eligible recipients include:
    • Local non-governmental, community and not-for-profit organizations,
    • Local academic institutions working on local projects,
    • International non-governmental organizations working on local development activities,
    • Intergovernmental, multilateral and regional institutions, organizations and agencies working on local development activities,
    • Municipal, regional or national government institutions or agencies of the recipient country working on local projects, and
    • Canadian non-governmental and not-for-profit organizations that are working on local development activities.
  • The majority of CFLI funding is to be directed toward local civil society organizations (including non-governmental organizations) and other institutions working at the local level. Other entities, such as international, intergovernmental, multilateral and regional organizations may be eligible for funding, provided they are working with local partners and on local projects that are consistent with the objectives of the CFLI. Similarly, municipal, regional and national government institutions may receive funding, provided that their projects are essentially local in nature. The CFLI is always looking to fund innovative projects that deliver measurable results.
Ineligible
  • The following costs are not eligible for CFLI funding:
    • nuclear technologies and facilities,
    • assistance to military or paramilitary organizations,
    • gifts,
    • luxury goods,
    • direct fiscal support to a government,
    • seed funding and/or microfinance,
    • core funding or recurrent costs of an organization
    • expenses incurred prior to the signing of the contribution agreement, or after it expires

For more information, visit Government of Canada.