Deadline: 29 August 2019
The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS) has announced new funding available to combat modern slavery through an agreement with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID).
GFEMS will distribute approximately USD 15M across 14 opportunities in support of its overall Theory of Change.
These opportunities fall into the following categories:
- Overseas Labour Recruitment – India & Bangladesh
- Sex trafficking – India & Bangladesh
- Apparel – India & Bangladesh
Funding Themes/Targeted Outcome Areas
The Fund’s grant making will catalyse reductions in slavery prevalence in communities and industries in three interconnected areas:
- Rule of Law–ending impunity and delivering justice for all forms of trafficking through effective laws and policies, criminal proceedings, and civil remedies.
- Business Engagement— Private sector creates value by eliminating forced labour from supply chains and investing in market-based solutions.
- Sustaining Freedom–ensuring recovery, reintegration, and economic opportunity for victims and the most vulnerable populations.
The Fund’s downstream partners will execute programs within and across these intervention areas in a way that supports the work streams in the Fund’s framework for action.
Funding Information
- Intervention/Combination Award Ceiling: USD 5M
- Intervention/Combination Award Floor: USD 500K
- Intervention Period of Performance: 24 months
- Innovation Ceiling: USD 250K per innovation
- Innovation Period of Performance: 18 months
Type of Activities
GFEMS Funds two types of activities under its opportunities: Interventions and Innovations.
- Interventions target clearly defined drivers of modern slavery with tested methods in order to reduce prevalence. Interventions are ready to be executed at scale, and qualify for large funding amounts over the full award period.
- Innovations are experimental projects that require development and testing on a limited scale. Innovations will be restricted to smaller amounts of funding, usually less than $250k.
Eligibility Criteria
An applicant must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible for GFEMS Funding. If applying as a consortium, all applicants within the consortium must meet these requirements:
- Applicants must be registered non-profit organisations, multilateral organisations, academic institutions, or for-profit organisations if the for-profit organisations are prepared to generate no profit from grant-funded activities. GFEMS will not directly fund profit-making activities.
- Applicants must be able to demonstrate financial due diligence (e.g., prior experience managing official development assistance funding from a government or multilateral organisation, a minimum of 2 years of audited financials, etc.)
- Applicants must have existing legal permissions to operate in relevant locations.
- Applicants must be able legally receive grant funding that originates with the UK Government without excessive tax or the use of an intermediary organisation.
How to Apply
Concept notes must be submitted at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit https://www.gfems.org/dfid-request-for-concept-notes
