Norad: Inviting Entities for “Rights of Minorities of Faith and Belief”

Deadline: 1 October 2017

The Norad is seeking applications for its funding scheme “Rights of minorities of faith and belief” in order to support the freedom of religion and belief, with particular emphasis on religious minorities.

The freedom of religion and belief entitles all people to manifest their faith, alone or in the company of others, in public or private. It also includes the freedom to change one’s religion or belief, to challenge other people’s faith and to have no religion or faith. The freedom of religion and belief is closely associated with the freedom of speech, the right to a private life and the freedom of assembly and the freedom of association.

Objectives

Strengthening the rights of minority faith and belief groups.
Fighting discrimination based on faith and belief.

Eligibility Criteria

This funding stream is intended for Norwegian and international non-governmental organisations that form part of civil society.
INGOs must have members (in the form of organisations, countries or board members) from at least two countries, and project implementation must take place in at least two countries.
Civil society is considered an arena which is separate from the family, the public sector and the market, where individuals join forces on a voluntary basis in order to promote their own or other people’s interests and rights.
Examples of eligible applicants include voluntary organisations, networking organisations, trade unions, religious organisations and sports organisations.
Non-eligible actors include UN organisations, public sector organisations, commercial organisations, consultancies and private individuals.
The applicant must be an independent legal entity with its own articles of association and an executive board.
The applicant’s board must be administratively autonomous from the organization’s day-to-day operations in order to safeguard the independent control function of the board.
The applicant must be financially sustainable, and not rely solely on public funding.
The applicant must have the necessary specialist and administrative competence to implement the project/s.
The applicant must have a strategy for its work in developing countries.
The applicant must have an established collaboration with, or itself be, a civil society actor in the country in which the project is implemented.
The applicant must deliver a performance framework that lists objectives, indicators, targets and baselines as part of the application. There must be a monitoring plan.