Deadline: 30 June 2020
The World Animal Protection has announced a new grant opportunity to improve farm animal welfare in Southeast Asia.
WAP has a bold vision to create ‘a world where animals live free from cruelty and suffering’. Today, billions of animals, especially farm animals, face a starkly different reality.
Since 2015, WAP has been addressing this challenge by engaging major food companies and producers to phase out the worst farming methods and practices, including close confinement, overcrowding, barren environments and other related poor welfare practices. They know that this is not enough.
Starting in 2021, WAP will be working to transform the global food system and prevent an exponential growth in farm animal suffering from an expansion of factory farming. They recognise that transforming the food system will require much greater resources than of any one organisation and is indeed well beyond the combined means of today’s animal protection movement. Thus, they need to actively work with and support other organisations and sectors, which can join them in tackling these significant global problems.
Thus, WAP has launched an initiative to support projects that address issues related to farm animal welfare (FAW) at scale in countries with the largest numbers of farm animals and/or have the potential to impact large numbers of animals across Southeast Asia.
World Animal Protection is working to improve the lives of farmed animals, including chickens, pigs, and dairy cattle by:
- Working with food businesses to end cruel practices and systems, such as barren and crowded environments and painful mutilations;
- Piloting projects that demonstrate the viability of high-welfare production systems;
- Shift or create government or inter government policy to improve farm animal welfare
- Empowering consumers demonstrate their growing appetite for higher welfare products, thus putting pressure on corporates to significantly improve their farm animal welfare policies and practices; and
- Exploring a systems-based approach to transform the global food system beyond 2020.
Funding Information
Award amounts will be in the range of USD $10,000 to $70,000 over one year, with most awards being $25,000 to $50,000 range.
Geographic Scope
The geographical focus is restricted to Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Winning projects will:
- Help improve the lives of farm animals at scale
- Have the potential to disrupt the status quo on one or more farm animal welfare issues
- Contribute to the achievement of World Animal Protection’s farm animal welfare strategy
- Have the potential to be scaled and replicated
- Be implemented in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and/or across Southeast Asia
Applications should describe how the project will achieve change for the largest number of farm animals, improve FAW policies and practices of food producers and/or retailers, and/or make positive contributions to consumer attitude or behaviour change in relation to FAW. Ideally, projects should be scalable and replicable, and underpinned by a commitment from the applicant to continue to address FAW beyond the end of the project.
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