Deadline: 3 April 2017
The Office of Assistance Coordination’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Program is seeking proposals from single-country for its Local Grants Program. The Local Grants Program serves as MEPI’s most direct means of supporting partnerships with and among the people of the Middle East and North Africa.
The Middle East Partnership Initiative Program supports partnerships with and among the people of the Middle East and North Africa to achieve shared political, economic and educational objectives. The MEPI Program supports partnerships between citizens, organizations, and governments in the MENA region to resolve shared challenges and promote shared interests in the areas of participatory governance, economic reform and educational advancement.
Objectives
- Participatory Governance: Enable civil society to effectively interact with government officials to increase responsiveness to citizen needs. Enhance citizens’ ability to actively participate in their governments and develop a more informed citizenry. For government officials, to enable their engagement with, and responsiveness to, citizens to resolve issues of shared concern.
- Economic Reform: Enable citizens, policy makers, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector with the skills and resources to provide economic opportunity, and reform the region’s business climate.
- Educational Advancement: Enable professional exchanges and trainings between citizens, government officials, educational institutions, and local organizations that build expertise and linkages across the region. Proposals will not be considered that include travel outside of the United States, general education activities such as university scholarships.
Funding Information
Projects are usually funded for one year, but the project and budget periods can be a minimum of six months and up to two years if a longer time period would yield more significant or better results.
- Maximum Award Amount: $150,000
- Minimum Award Amount: $50,000
Eligibility Criteria
- A key objective of the local grants program is developing the capacity of local civil society organizations (CSOs) to effectively and efficiently manage assistance.
- Eligible applicants include local organizations of civil society, non-profit organizations, community groups, non-governmental organizations, professional associations, private sector organizations, and universities based in countries mentioned below.
- Only organizations that have an established local office in the country they propose to implement their project will be eligible to apply.
- Awards will be issued to the local office and not any partner or affiliate office that may be located outside of the country of implementation.
- Individuals are not eligible to apply to this announcement.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can find specific information on application process via given website.
Eligible Countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia, the West Bank or Gaza, and Yemen.
For more information, please visit MEPI Local Grants Annual Program Statement.