Poverty is interconnected to various factors of underdevelopment as development deals with the eradication or the alleviation of poverty. Being a helping hand to NGOs we have enumerated some of the latest funding opportunities to help them solve the issue worldwide.
USAID: Broad Agency Announcement for Sustainable Landscapes
Deadline: 24-Sep-22
The Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate in the research, development, piloting, and scaling of innovative interventions for reducing land-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing long-term carbon sequestration at scale…[more]
GC Human Rights Preparedness Initiative addressing persistent challenges of pandemics
Deadline: 31-Jul-21
The Global Campus of Human Rights is proud to present its new open initiative GC Human Rights Preparedness, a space for collaboration on the role that human rights must play in addressing the persistent challenges of pandemics and other emergencies…[more]
UN SDG Global Festival of Action inviting Immersive Stories to Inspire people for Positive Actions
Deadline: 5-Aug-21
The United Nations SDG Action Campaign, and Oculus is inviting applications from emerging creators worldwide to create media as a way to share their perspectives and advance positive action toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…[more]
Call for Proposals: Global Development Network
Deadline: 4-Jul-21
The Global Development Network is partnering with the French Development Agency, AFD, to conduct an online video contest, on key development transitions taking place across the globe…[more]
Open Call for Best Tourism Villages
Deadline: 31-Jul-21
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has announced an open call for Best Tourism Villages to maximise the contribution of the sector to reducing regional inequalities and fighting against rural depopulation…[more]
STDF’s Project Preparation Grants Program
Deadline: 23-Jul-21
The Standards and Trade Development Facility is seeking applications for its Project Preparation Grants Program. These grants can involve the application of SPS-related capacity evaluation tools, preparation of feasibility studies, and/or formulation of project proposals to address specific SPS capacity building needs to be linked to trade…[more]
STDF’s Project Grants Program to improve Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health capacity
Deadline: 23-Jul-21
The Standards and Trade Development Facility is seeking applications for its Project Grants Program that improve food safety, animal and plant health capacity to comply with international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements…[more]
UNWTO’s Global Rural Tourism Startup Competition
Deadline: 1-Jul-21
UNWTO invites applications for the Global Rural Tourism Startup Competition to accelerate Rural Development through Tourism…[more]
Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition for empowering Entrepreneurs Worldwide
Deadline: 30-Sep-21
The Entrepreneurship Campus is inviting applications for its Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition (CEC) that empowers entrepreneurs all around the world to create innovative answers to global and/or community challenges and to engage in a more peaceful and sustainable world…[more]
The Energy Globe Award for Sustainability: Apply Now!
Deadline: 15-Nov-21
The call for nominations for the Energy Globe Award for Sustainability 2022 is now open with the objective to present successful sustainable projects to a global audience and to demonstrate that for most of our environmental problems feasible solutions are already available…[more]
Nominations Open for the State of the Art Partnership Awards
Deadline: 31-Jul-21
Nominations are now open for the State of the Art Partnership Awards to recognize the world’s most innovative and successful multistakeholder partnerships in five Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) areas. The global competition is open to partnerships in any country or combination of countries…[more]
P4G’s Call for Partnerships for achievement of Sustainable Development Goals
Deadline: 31-Jul-21
P4G is now accepting concept notes for high-impact partnerships implementing innovative business models to accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals…[more]
Call for Applications: Moses Mapesa Research Grant Program
Deadline: 30-Jul-21
The African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) is seeking applications for its Moses Mapesa Research Grant Program to support young professionals conducting research at Doctoral or Masters’s levels in the field of either natural or cultural heritage at an African university…[more]
Business Partnership Facility offering grants to achieve SDGs in Developing Countries
Deadline: 07-Sep-21
The Business Partnership Facility (BPF) is initiated and financed by the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation (DGD) to stimulate private sector involvement in achieving the SDGs in developing countries…[more]
Environmental innovations in Cameroon and DRC
Deadline: 30-Aug-21
The Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD), a subsidiary body of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) in partnership with Kongo University in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Eden Africa and Engineers Without Borders in Cameroon, received a grant from the ACP Fund for Innovation, one of the components of the Research and Innovation Program of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OEACP), a program implemented by the OEACP, with the financial contribution of the European Union, for the execution of the project “Deployment of environmental technologies and innovations for sustainable development and poverty reduction” in Cameroon and the DRC…[more]
12th Central Asian Leadership Programme on Environment for Sustainable Development (CALP)
Deadline: 15-Jul-21
The Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC) has launched the applications for the 12th Central Asian Leadership Programme on Environment for Sustainable Development (CALP) to provide and enhance necessary knowledge and capacity to young leaders from government bodies and other stakeholders in order to facilitate and enable their switching to Sustainable Consumption and Production/circular economy in Central Asia and Afghanistan…[more]
Roy A. Hunt Foundation’s International Development Program
Deadline: 31-Jul-21
The Roy A. Hunt Foundation has announced the International Development Program to improve the socio-economic welfare and holistic well-being of women and children living in poverty in developing countries…[more]
Papua New Guinea Sustainable Landscapes Activity
Deadline: 07-Jul-21
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to the Philippines, Pacific Islands, and Mongolia is seeking applications for a Cooperative Agreement from qualified U.S. and Non-U.S. non-profit or for-profit Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and other qualified non-U.S. organizations to implement a project entitled “Papua New Guinea (PNG) Sustainable Landscapes (SL) Activity).”…[more]
Acumen Fellowship in West Africa
Deadline: 20-Jul-21
Applications are open for Entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and organization-builders from both public and private sectors model a new type of leadership grounded in hope and dignity…[more]
Nominations Open for the Transformative Action Award 2021
Deadline: 31-Jul-21
Nominations are now open for the Transformative Action Award 2021.The European sustainability award, co-organised by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the Basque Country, and the City of Aalborg (Denmark) and supported by the European Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank, is given to a city, region or civil society organisation, which implements the 15 pathways outlined in the Basque Declaration to bring about the socio cultural, socio-economic, and technological transformation of their community…[more]
Call for Proposals Russian Innovative Solutions Challenge Fund
Deadline: 01-Jul-21
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced a Call for Proposals, the RCF aims to identify smart solutions for the transformation of vocational education systems in order to contribute to the achievement of SDGs in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Tajikistan…[more]
Strategic Legal Fund: Advancing Justice for Migrants in the UK
Deadline: 01-Jul-21
Applications are invited for the Strategic Legal Fund (SLF) to support legal work in the UK that goes beyond securing justice for an individual and makes a significant contribution to law, practice and procedures to uphold and promote the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants more generally…[more]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces Challenge Fund – Czech Republic
Deadline: 12-Jul-21
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic is pleased to announce Challenge fund to facilitate transfer of Czech know-how and innovative solutions that would address development challenges identified by UNDP Country Offices in the project countries and contribute to the achievement of SDGs…[more]
IFDD: Youth, environment and sustainable development in Haiti
Deadline: 20-Sep-21
The Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD), a subsidiary body of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), received funding from the Delegation of the European Union in Haiti to improve the citizen involvement of the Haitian youth for inclusive, sustainable and resilient growth to climate change and natural disasters…[more]
Youth Inclusion in Jordan’s Development Process
Deadline: 29-Jul-21
European Commission has announced the applications for Youth Inclusion in Jordan’s Development Process to build a sense of belonging among youth capable of creativity, innovation, and greater productivity through emphasizing active participation and citizenship, justice and equal opportunities, continuous learning, and entrepreneurship, and economic empowerment of young people…[more]
Call for Proposals: Public Service Delivery Support Grant Program (Georgia)
Deadline: 28-Jun-21
UNDP is calling for proposals for the Public Service Delivery Support Grant Program to support the generation of initiatives that contribute to the smooth, effective and timely implementation of ongoing Public Administration Reform, and in particular, its Service Delivery area…[more]
Call for Proposals for Civil Society Grant Program in Georgia
Deadline: 28-Jun-21
UNDP is calling for proposals for the Civil Society Grant Program to sustain, support, and build key institutions and processes required for advancing the reform by offering consultancy and capacity building within the new PAR Strategy 2021-2025…[more]
Northern Ireland European Social Fund Programme enhancing Social Inclusion – UK
Deadline: 02-Jul-21
Applications are now open for the Northern Ireland European Social Fund Programme to combat poverty and enhance social inclusion by reducing economic inactivity and to increase the skills base of those currently in work and future potential participants in the workforce…[more]
Call for Proposals: Livelihoods Vulnerable and Excluded Minorities (Central African Republic)
Deadline: 13-Jul-21
UNDP is calling for proposals for Livelihoods Vulnerable and Excluded Minorities to support the Government’s efforts to mitigate the effects of socio-economic and health crises on vulnerable groups, UNDP has sought and obtained a ” Funding Facility Fast ” for stabilizer livelihoods of the most vulnerable communities (including people living with disabilities, people living with HIV, women, youth from minority groups) in pandemic and conflict areas and lift them out of the impact of COVID19…[more]
HUD’s Distressed Cities and Persistent Poverty Technical Assistance – US
Deadline: 29-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issues this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to invite applications for Distressed Cities and Persistent Poverty Technical Assistance…[more]
Apply for Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Nicaragua
Deadline: 31-Aug-21
Applications are now open for the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship. The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship (“Humphrey Program”) was launched in 1978 to honor the accomplishments and memory of the late Senator of Minnesota and Vice-President of the United States, Hubert H. Humphrey…[more]
Haiti: Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program
Deadline: 30-Jun-21
The U.S. Embassy in Haiti is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 competition for the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. This one-year Fellowship program is offered to young and mid-career professionals who have a proven track record of leadership, public service commitment, and the capacity to take full advantage of a self-defined program of independent non-degree study at a leading U.S. university. The program awards a certificate from the U.S. Government; it is not designed to deliver an advanced degree…[more]
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program in Trinidad and Tobago
Deadline: 31-Jul-21
Applications are now open for the Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Program that brings accomplished young and mid-career professionals with demonstrated leadership potential to the United States for a year of non-degree graduate-level study, leadership development, and substantive professional collaboration with U.S. counterparts…[more]
Acumen Fellowship in Bangladesh – Nominations now open!
Deadline: 12-Jul-21
Nominations are now open for the Acumen Fellowship which is an intensive leadership development program, designed to equip those who are working to create change in different sectors and regions across Bangladesh with the tools, mindset, and community to tackle poverty and injustice in their communities. Selected Fellows will go through transformational experience reflecting on their leadership journey, developing skills in problem solving, fostering moral imagination and building a strong community…[more]
Nominations Open for the Telstra Best of Business Awards – Australia
Deadline: 12-Jul-21
Nominations are now open for the Telstra Best of Business Awards to give small and medium-sized businesses a platform to celebrate achievements and stories with their peers, and opportunities to learn from Australia’s best business minds…[more]
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise – UK
Deadline: 08-Sep-21
Nominations are now open for the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are for outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of:..[more]
