Deadline: 7 June 2018
The UNESCO Ramallah Office is seeking proposals for a program entitled “Youth-led Initiatives Grant in Palestine”, in the context of the NET-MED Youth Project, funded by the European Union and implemented by UNESCO.
Objectives
The overall objective of the youth-led initiatives grant is reinforce and sustain the public participation and active involvement of youth to advance rights-based, peaceful, inclusive and stable societies. In addition, to empower young men and women create their own initiatives, implement them on the ground and build on them, in order to:
- Strengthen the participation of young women and men within existing youth organizations on the local level;
- Design innovative initiatives, focusing on youth empowerment and participation that have the potential for catalytic effects;
- Enhance support to youth civil society organizations, and facilitate their inclusion and engagement with their communities;
Thematic Focus
The youth-led initiative grants will support ideas whose main objective is youth empowerment and young people’s effective participation. Initiatives should focus on facilitating young people’s access to decision-making bodies, innovative ways to integrate youth in their community and young people’s role in preventing violent extremism. Initiatives should:
- Be strategic: must be of direct and immediate relevance to youth issues and interests, and fall within the priority thematic area of the NET-MED Youth project, which is effective youth participation.
- Leverage commitments and action on youth issues and concerns, serving their local community
- Support gender equality, respect for human rights and the inclusion of people with disabilities as a crosscutting dimension.
Grant Information
Each of the four selected youth led initiative will receive from the NET-MED Youth Project, a maximum budget for each initiative up to $ 2000 (four initiatives 2000= $8000) with operational expenses of $ 1000 for the selected lead organization. Each initiative should not exceed two weeks.
Eligibility Criteria
- This request for proposals is open to youth organizations in East Jerusalem, from 24 May to 7 June 2018. One youth organization will be chosen, who will be contracted by UNESCO to in turn distribute smaller grants to selected individuals or groups to implement four youth-led initiatives.
- For this purpose, the youth organization to first be selected by UNESCO shall be assessed as:
- Technically and financially sound –capable of undertaking the tasks foreseen in this document;
- Capable of inviting young women and men (individuals or groups) to submit proposals for the small grants, selecting (in consultation with UNESCO) the recipients of these grants and overseeing the implementation of their proposed initiatives.
- The people\organizations who would be eligible to apply for the youth-led initiatives.
- Young leaders (civil society activists, advocates, university students) including those representing youth organizations, networks and coalitions supported by NET-MED Youth.
- Selected civil society organizations, cultural institutions, local communities and other social interlocutors actively engaged in the prevention of violent extremism.
How to Apply
- Applicants should submit ALL of the following via email at the address given on the website.
- Including the subject: Proposal for Youth Initiatives Grant in Palestine – UNESCO’s NET-MED Youth Project
- A proposal (2-3 pages) that includes a short description of youth organizations’ proposed work modality and work plan.
- A report of prior interventions of managing a youth led initiative activity.
- A description /profile of the organization/party interested in undertaking the assignment as the lead Organization
For more information, please visit Youth-led Initiatives Grant in Palestine.