Deadline: 14-Apr-22
The Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) has announced a call for applications for House-to-House Project Fund 2022.
This unique funding opportunity provides support for creative and strategic projects to advance human rights priorities in countries with Human Rights Houses. The House-to-House Project Fund supports dynamic civil society-led projects to address specific and local human rights challenges. In implementing these projects Human Rights Houses and their member organisations have opportunities to work with other Human Rights Houses and broader civil society organisations and actors in their communities and countries.
Eligible Projects
- In 2022, HRHF will prioritise applications for projects in eligible countries which specifically focus on one of the following topics:
- Advocacy related to the freedoms of association, assembly, or expression and the freedom to be a human rights defender. This may include efforts to strengthen domestic policies and legislation, increase accountability of local authorities and institutions, and/or strengthen international mechanisms and standards.
- Promotion and protection of the freedoms of association, assembly, or expression and the freedom to be a human rights defender in an eligible country.
- Human rights education and awareness raising, including through involvement of youth or professional groups.
- Protection of human rights defenders and human rights organizations.
- Promotion of healthy organizational culture and burnout prevention among human rights organisations.
- Support to vulnerable groups, such as women and children, minorities, people in remote areas.
- HRHF will prioritise support to the projects which include one or more of the following components:
- Propose new partnerships, including with individuals, movements and actors beyond the network and traditional human rights organisations, also actors working outside of the capital cities
- Positively impact the human rights situation across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and/or Western Balkans;
- Propose cost-sharing or in-kind contributions by applicant organizations (i.e. – meeting room space, accommodation in House-owned premises, co-funding, etc.; and,
- Make use of existing resources within the network of Human Rights Houses, such as reports, exhibitions, booklets, education material of ILIA programme, etc.
Eligibile Countries
HRHF welcomes applications for projects which address relevant human rights issues in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Serbia. HRHF welcomes all Human Rights Houses, their member organisations as well as organisations and actors from outside of the network to apply for funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- The House-to-House Project Fund 2022 is designed to support collaborative projects implemented by Human Rights House network partners (Houses and members of the Houses) in collaboration with other civil society organisations.
- To qualify for support, project partners must be:
- A Human Rights House or a member organisation of a Human Rights House
- and, one or more of the following:
- Another Human Rights House
- A member organisation of another Human Rights House
- A civil society organisation, actor, individual from outside of the network
- Human Rights Houses and member organisations of Human Rights Houses can only be main applicants in 2 projects. They can, however, join projects where another organisation is the lead partner.
For more information, visit https://humanrightshouse.org/articles/house-to-house-2022-call-for-applications/