Deadline: 21-Jun-24
The Minority Rights Group is accepting applications for Urgent Hardship Grants from human rights organizations in Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, and Tunisia.
These grants aim to support human rights organizations representing minorities and marginalized groups to overcome urgent threats or security risks that they may face as a result of their human rights work in a shrinking civic space.
Funding Information
- The amount available for each project is between 1,000 – 3000 Euros and the duration of the action may last up to a maximum of six months.
Eligibility Criteria
- For your application to be considered, the applicant must:
- Non-governmental or civil society organizations based in Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia that represent or work closely with minority communities and other marginalized groups who have faced a recent threat or elevated risk and require urgent support. The hardship fund is intended for the benefit of civil society organizations. This can also include the individuals working in civil society organizations, impacted as a result of their human rights work, and in order to ensure sustainability for the organizations.
- Be a human rights or minority rights organization.
- Be a non-for-profit civil society organization (official registration is not necessary).
- Be based in one of the project countries: Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia.
- Must have recently experienced an elevated security threat or an imminent security risk as a result of their human rights work.
- Be an organization that has a track record of working with disadvantaged ethnic, religious, or cultural minorities or marginalized groups such as migrants, refugees, LGBTI, or persons with disabilities, and rooted in these marginalized communities.
- Must have basic skills in project management, risk management and financial management.
- Be an organization that has no public debt, complies with anti-corruption measures, and proves absence of conflict of interest.
- Have the ability to receive funding, either through their own organization or an agreed upon alternative arrangement which aligns with approved protocol.
For more information, visit Minority Rights Group.