Open Call for Subgrants to support Land and Environmental Women Human Rights Defenders

Deadline: 22-Apr-2024

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is pleased to announce an open call for subgrants to support land and environmental women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in their work to promote safety and prevention of violations against them.

These grants are designed to support the development and implementation of holistic safety strategies, including research, advocacy and capacity building, inviting WHRD organisations who work in these areas to explore the intersections between technology and land and environmental issues.

The grants, although allocated to WHRDs focusing on land and environmental rights, are primarily intended to enhance their safety rather than to support their environmental rights defence efforts directly.

The subgrants are available to environmental WHRD-led organisations from the global South. APC is particularly interested in supporting collectives and networks from marginalised groups and intersected identities, such as LGBTQIA+, Indigenous, Black and grassroots communities and racial and sexual minorities.

APC’s Safety for Voices programme is global South-based and supported by the Dutch government. The SfV programme aims to contribute to the safety and security of WHRDs through agenda setting, accountability and monitoring.

Objectives

• The proposal must fit into one or more of these objectives:
  • Prevention of risks and unsafe situations for WHRDs through provision of holistic safety resources.
  • Protection of WHRDs at acute risk, during times of crisis and in conflict zones, through provision of adequate and timely resources and support.
  • Enhancement of legitimacy of the work of WHRDs through enactment, strengthening and implementation of relevant laws and policies and creation of formal, gender-sensitive support structures.

Grant Categories

• The subgrants are available in three categories:
  • Knowledge development grants provide support for research that produces original and rigorous knowledge on the nature, scope and impact of threats and attacks against WHRDs who work with land and environmental rights, evaluating the effectiveness of technologies for protecting and promoting the safety of these WHRDs.
  • Policy and advocacy grants aim to support the development and implementation of policies and practices that protect and promote the security of WHRDs working at the national and local level, inviting the WHRDs to explore the intersection between technology and land and environmental issues in the promotion of rights.
  • Capacity and resilience building grants support training and other capacity-building activities that help land and environmental WHRDs to develop skills and knowledge in technology to increase safety and care in order to carry out their work effectively.

Funding Information

• The amount requested in the project proposals can range from USD 5,000 to USD 15,000 depending on the scope and scale of the proposed intervention.

Eligibility Criteria 

• WHRD-led and WHRD-focused organisations from the global South working on land and environmental rights.
• In the context of this call, WHRDs include all women, girls and gender-diverse people who work, individually or collectively, on behalf of others to promote and defend recognised human rights. The applicant must be an organisation/collective/network led by women and/or gender-diverse persons or the primary beneficiaries of the grant should be women and/or gender-diverse persons.
• The applicants must be actively working to promote the protection of land and environmental rights. This includes individuals and groups who, in their personal or professional capacity, strive to protect and promote human rights relating to the land and environment, including water, air, land, flora and fauna.

For more information, visit Association for Progressive Communications.