Deadline: 16-Jul-25
The Minority Rights Group is seeking applications from civil society organizations to conduct an institutional capacity-building training program over three-day period.
The training will cover areas including project design and proposal writing, financial reporting and bookkeeping, donor reporting, leadership, organization building, and monitoring and evaluation.
The training will target the recipient human rights organizations of Core Grants as part of the Minorities, Accountability and Civic Space (MACS) programme. MRG is accepting application from nonprofit civil society organizations working in the field of human rights and based in one of these countries: Lebanon, Tunis, Morocco or Palestine and have experience in delivering capacity building trainings.
As part of MACS, these training programmes aim to enable grassroots civil society organizations to improve their organizational infrastructure, to allow them to operate efficiently and advance their work in democracy and human rights.
Funding Information
- There are four grants available. Only one grant will be awarded per country. The amount available for each grant is 5,500 euros.
- The training is expected to take place within 2 months of acceptance.
Eligible Costs
- Trainers’ and facilitators’ costs.
- Renting of training venue.
- Breaks and lunch for trainees.
- Training material and stationery.
- Renting needed equipment for training.
- Costs of trainees’ travel within the country and/or hotel accommodation.
- Salaries for the officers designing and managing the training.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a not-for-profit organization committed to the protection and/or promotion of human rights.
- Applicants must have excellent experience in delivering capacity building training to human rights organizations.
- The organization must be operating in one or more of the target countries: Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco or Tunisia.
- The organization must have experience in working with disadvantaged ethnic, religious or cultural minorities or marginalized groups such migrants, refugees, LGBTQI or persons with disabilities, and be committed to involving various minorities and other marginalized communities in their broader activities.
- The organization can provide expertise in project design and management, risk management and financial management. Skills in bookkeeping, donor reporting, leadership, organization building, and monitoring and evaluation are desired.
- The organization must have no public debt, comply with anti-corruption measures and prove absence of conflict of interest
- Have the ability to receive funding, either through their own organization or an agreed upon alternative arrangement.
Selection Criteria
- A history of successfully conducting training and capacity-building initiatives, especially in the areas mentioned above.
- The extent to which the organization’s training proposal aligns with the call, training needs of the beneficiaries described above, and with the objectives of the MACS project.
- How realistic the targets set to deliver the planned training activities are with respect to the allocated resources and the organization’s capacity.
- Clearly justifying a budget that represents value for money and efficiency.
- The organization’s ability to ensure that the training programme is accessible to individuals with disabilities and incorporates a gender-sensitive and minority rights-based approach.
- A comprehensive evaluation plan of the training, its activities, results, and impact.
For more information, visit MRG.