Deadline: 20 October 2017
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is inviting applicants for its program entitled “Civil Society Engagement and Grants Programme on Transitional Justice, Reconciliation and Institutional Reforms”.
The objective of this initiative is to support key targeted interventions that contribute to building and strengthening CSO platforms for working with victims and engaging the public on transitional justice, reconciliation and institutional reforms.
Thematic Areas
- Empowering communities to be able to access the proposed transitional justice mechanisms; specifically, the Office for Missing Persons; this could include support in getting ready necessary documentation; and provision of psychosocial support, before, during and after the accessing of the mechanism and engagement on forensics and evidence gathering.
- Non-institutional, community based psychosocial interventions for victims, including for sexual and gender based violence.
- Disseminating CTF report findings: this would necessarily involve simplifying content and adding supporting narrative to be used as a tool to generate citizen awareness and critical engagement on reconciliation.
- Innovative initiatives that widen and promote a more inclusive discourse on the need for reforms that enable reconciliation and strengthen accountability including for past violations and preventing future recurrence.
- Promote access to justice and legal empowerment for marginalized groups, including for legal awareness and legal aid and particularly for human rights and conflict related violations
- Awareness raising on the Right to Information and its use to promote State accountability, not only in relation to past violations, but also ongoing social justice issues.
- Support for initiatives aimed at non-recurrence, including joint cultural/ community memorialization initiatives.
- Supporting pilot initiatives that bring the TJ and reforms discourse to the entire country and particularly the South, including through the medium of arts and dialogue.
Grant Information
The budget available for each project, is up to a maximum of USD 50,000.
Selection Criteria
The abstracts and subsequent proposals will be marked per the following criteria
- Organisational
- Technical skills
- Experience in the proposed intervention and/or related areas
- Abstract/Proposal
- Level of proposed collaboration/partnership with other civil society groups (e.g. joint submissions)
- Extent to which proposed interventions are priorities within overall context, particularly vis-à- vis UNHRC Resolution 30/1 and the Sri Lanka Peacebuilding Priority Plan
- Methodology, strategies and approaches to be adopted; including level of creativity, and innovation.
- Gender considerations
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit their abstract with a signed cover letter via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Country: Sri Lanka
For more information, please visit Civil Society Engagement and Grants Programme.