[October 2021]
Let’s Work Together and Promote Efforts Towards Poverty Eradication!
It is evident that with the joint efforts of governments, development organisations, NGOs, and other charitable organisations, we can achieve poverty reduction to the maximum extent. However, especially after COVID devastation, there is a need for more such collaborations to avoid lasting damage and boost the global economy. Not to forget, these efforts should also guarantee access to better livelihood opportunities for people living in vulnerable communities. Therefore, the international community and other stakeholders must rethink approaches to succeed in reducing poverty. Working towards this mandate, several grant-giving donors release their funding opportunities and free resources to support NGOs, Nonprofits, and Individuals with active participation involving upliftment of the needy.
Open Grant Opportunities for Poverty Alleviation
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]
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]
Call for Proposals: Addressing Building related Interventions for Vulnerable Districts
Deadline: 12-Jan-22
The European Commission (EC) has announced a call for proposals for Addressing Building related Interventions for Vulnerable Districts to alleviate energy poverty by addressing the poor energy efficiency of dwellings, as a key risk factor causing energy poverty (the other two being low incomes and high energy expenditure)…[more]
Common Fund for Commodities: Grants of up to USD 120,000
Deadline: 15-Oct-21
The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) is seeking applications for financing projects along the commodity value chains following sustainability roadmap. CFC provides a range of financial and technical instruments to support projects proposed by SMEs/enterprises, cooperatives, and institutions along the entire commodity value chain in its member countries…[more]
if Social Impact Prize: €100,000 Grants for Projects working to address poverty, hunger, lack of education
Deadline: 18-Nov-21
You are welcome to submit all projects that contribute to solving the most urgent challenges of their time and help to improve conditions – your CSR projects or your active support for a specific aspect of society…[more]
Fund for Innovation in Development to Reduce Global Poverty and Inequality
Deadline: Ongoing
FID enables innovators and researchers to test new ideas, build rigorous evidence of what works, and scale the highest-impact and most cost-effective solutions…[more]
$20,000 Grant to design new NGO to deliver proven poverty intervention
Deadline: 17-Oct-21
The D-Prize offers an opportunity for you to design a new NGO or a business that delivers a proven poverty intervention at scale. Apply for the D-Prize to build a new organization and solve one of the Distribution Challenges…[more]
“Health and Livelihoods in the Arab Region: Welfare, Fragility and Conflict”
Deadline: 23-Nov-21
This call encourages the submission of innovative research on health-related to the Arab region and health crises and challenges raised and exacerbated by conditions of vulnerability, conflict, fragility and insecurity…[more]
Noel Buxton Trust Grants for Grass-Roots Organisations: Offering £5,000 per year
Deadline: Ongoing
The Trust welcomes applications that demonstrate a commitment to strengthening community-based organisations and ensuring the voice of poor and marginalised women and men are properly heard and respected…[more]
Free Downloadable Resources for NGOs working on Poverty Alleviation
A Free Handbook for Integrating Risk Analysis in the Economic Analysis of Projects
The Handbook provides guidance on integration of risk analysis in the design and analysis of projects. To illustrate the ease of use of quantitative risk analysis software, the Handbook includes case studies based on actual ADB projects in the agriculture, education, health, and power sectors…[more]
A Free Toolkit on Reducing Poverty through Employment
This Toolkit provides a range of good practices, case examples, and resources to guide companies on how to get started or how to enhance existing efforts to employ, empower, and improve the advancement prospects of those living in poverty…[more]
A Free Good Practice Sourcebook on Health Impact Assessment
This publication provides practical tools and guidance on how development projects of the Asian Development Bank can improve the health of the communities that they serve…[more]
A Free Community Development Carbon Finance Toolkit
The Environmental Economics Programme together with South North prepared a carbon finance toolkit for the Community Development Carbon Fund of the World Bank…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Localising the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The purpose of this toolkit is to develop capacities of local governments and their communities to ensure a strong MDGs focus in their local development strategies and effective and efficient conversion of public funds into public benefits…[more]
A Free Global Faces of Inequality Campaign Toolkit
The global Faces of Inequality Campaign aims to target inequalities in all its different forms – gender, income, wealth, geographical, environmental, abilities, political, ethnic, and other discriminations…[more]
Protecting Children on the Move: A Free Guide to Programming for Children affected by Migration and Displacement
This programming guide was developed by the Children on the Move Task Group that brings together Save the Children most experienced practitioners across the world within the framework of their Child Protection Global Theme…[more]
A Free Toolkit on Indigenous Women’s Rights in Africa
Forest Peoples Programme has created this toolkit to help indigenous women in Africa to better understand the African human rights system and how to use it effectively to secure their rights…[more]
A Free Handbook on Measuring Equity in Education
The new Handbook on Measuring Equity in Education provides practical guidance on the calculation and interpretation of indicators designed to target the most disadvantaged groups. It is intended for anyone involved in the measurement and monitoring of equity in education, especially those concerned with national policy-making…[more]
Energy and Gender for Sustainable Development: Free Toolkit for Practitioners
This toolkit and resource guide has been produced jointly by the Sustainable Energy Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy. It is designed to help planners and practitioners integrate gender and energy considerations into development programmes, including those focusing on energy improvements as well as other types of development programmes…[more]
A Free Guide for World Free from Child Poverty
Child poverty is a universal problem with devastating impacts on children and societies. For the firsttime,there is global goal (Sustainable Development Goal 1)to end extreme poverty, including for children, and halve the poverty of children by national definitions…[more]
A Free Toolkit for Child Sensitivity in Poverty Alleviation Programming
In order to develop relevant child poverty programmes, it is crucial to understand the linkages between commonly measured economic strengthening results at the household level and the less-understood results of these programmes for children…[more]
A Free Toolkit on Poverty Targeting, Gender Equality and Empowerment
Understanding people’s needs and priorities, their own perceptions of poverty, and placing them in the driver’s seat of the change process is the starting point for designing and implementing development interventions that are accessible and beneficial to both women and men, contributing to their own transformative processes…[more]
A Free Toolkit on Reducing Rural Women’s Domestic Workload through Labour-saving Technologies and Practices
The focus of the toolkit on labour-saving methods to reduce the domestic, rather than the productive, workload is to refocus attention on this relatively hidden but persistent hindrance to IFAD’s drive for rural transformation…[more]
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