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Office of Global Criminal Justice: Rapid Response to support Justice Mechanisms

UK: Social Justice Small Grants Programme

Deadline: 02-Aug-21

The Department of State’s Office of Global Criminal Justice (GCJ) seeks applications for a collaborative program and mechanism to respond rapidly to global, time-sensitive, and locally-led opportunities to support transitional justice mechanisms and processes in order to promote justice and accountability for atrocities, including genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

The office supports the establishment and success of transitional justice mechanisms and processes to redress legacies of abuse and prevent their recurrence. These mechanisms and processes may be established by national governments, regional or international organizations, and be formed as part of any agreement between multiple parties.

GCJ believes that for transitional justice processes to be effective they should be: deployed as part of a comprehensive transitional justice strategy; transparent, independent and impartial; broadly consultative and participatory; gender integrated; context-specific; supported by civil society; designed to do no harm; and manage expectations through outreach.  As such, proposals are required to demonstrate empowerment of civil society, nongovernmental actors, and community leaders, particularly from disenfranchised communities, especially to integrate their perspectives into formal processes.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate a strong track record of responding to complex crises from a lay-the–groundwork-for-transitional-justice perspective, with a particular emphasis in the area of justice and accountability.

Program Objectives

Programming under the mechanism may include, but is not limited to, one or more of the following areas and will be decided in conjunction with GCJ:

Funding Information

Problem Statement

While transitional justice processes and the advocacy work that leads up to their creation can take years or decades, there are often discrete windows of opportunity that are critical to the establishment of these processes and to their long-term impact and success.  Time is often of the essence during unfolding situations and transitions.  Some opportunities need to be addressed quickly to avoid losing critical evidence, others to address breakthroughs in political will or take advantage of the momentum created by civil society or the international community.  By their very nature, many of these contexts can be quite fluid and require an ability to respond quickly to the opportunities presented.

Eligibility Criteria

For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334232

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