Deadline: 14 February 2017
The USAID-Afghanistan is seeking applications for its ADALAT Legal Outreach and Awareness Grants Program to promote outreach designed to impact remote communities with low literacy levels and little familiarity with formal justice and legal rights. ADALAT is looking for organizations to raise awareness of legal rights among semi-literate and illiterate Afghans in rural and low-income communities.
Applicants should propose methods to overcome the geographical and educational barriers that inhibit the communication, understanding and lasting awareness of legal rights provided in the country’s formal legal system.
Program Objectives
- For advocacy and monitoring activities, applicants should demonstrate the ability to include and mobilize disenfranchised members of marginalized communities during program implementation, such as involving women in media campaigns, vision and mobility-impaired persons in trial observations, and representatives of persecuted minority groups in organized national dialogues on non-discrimination.
- Applicants may consider involving respected religious figures and formal sector actors (e.g., judges, prosecutors, and elders) in community outreach to personalize the legal principles that villagers may be hearing for the first time or never internalized following other outreach attempts.
- Potential activities may include (1) working with media outlets to identify spokespersons and influential male and female leaders who could present targeted public service announcements on pressing justice issues, (2) using information technology, particularly social media, SMS, and YouTube, to disseminate legal awareness messaging and network with other organizations, (3) utilizing music, traditional dance, art, photography, community clean-up and service projects, athletics, and other competitive and recreational tools to engage village residents, (4) organizing educational street law programs targeted to youth, or (5) implementing programs centered on specific important dates/events such as international women’s day, activism days, peace day, youth day and etc.
- Applications should demonstrate an understanding of gender dynamics and utilize creative approaches to integrate female viewpoints into program activities.
- Applicants may also design outreach activities that draw attention to justice sector reforms and rule of law principles (e.g., the work of journalists investigating or monitoring human rights cases, tracking the enforcement of newly-enacted laws, changes to statutes and regulatory policies on matters related to legal rights).
Funding Information
- Checchi anticipates funding several grants between $25,000 and $150,000 for each grant program. Applicants may only submit one application.
- The anticipated period of performance anticipated is up to 12 months from date of award. The anticipated start date for this program is on or about March 1, 2017
Eligibility Criteria
Applications should be from qualified Afghan non-governmental organizations, such as private, non-profit organizations (or for-profit companies willing to forego profits), including private voluntary organizations, civil society organizations, universities, research organizations, media organizations, professional associations, and relevant special interest associations.
- The organization must meet the program objectives of ADALAT listed above.
- The organization’s proposal must include expected outcomes and results consistent with and linked to ADALAT’s objectives including an approach to gender integration.
- Is registered as a legal entity in Afghanistan.
- The organization must demonstrate that it has sound technical, institutional and administrative management capacities to implement the proposed grant activity.
- The organization must receive vetting eligibility from the USAID Kabul Vetting Support Unit for the period of the grant agreement.
- The applicant must agree to follow USAID Multi-Tier-Monitoring requirements for remote activity verification including possible use of third party monitors
- The applicant must have a DUNS number and be registered in the System for Awards Management (SAM).
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Country: Afghanistan
For more information, please visit ADALAT Legal Outreach and Awareness Grants Program.