Deadline: 27 February 2019
This Request for Applications (RFA) is seeking submissions from media-focused intermediate support organizations (MISOs) with expertise and experience in media to provide capacity building support for its media outlet partners.
MISOs that are selected to work with CSM II will provide specialized practical skills development and mentoring to independent media organizations, especially the organizations that receive grants from CSM II’s Public Information Fund.
Grants provided under this RFA will provide support to organizations with specialist capacity-building skills for media. MISOs will work with CSM II to provide capacity building, mentoring, technical and digital skills development and other forms of assistance to the independent media organizations, in particular independent media outlets that receive grants from the CSM II Public Information Fund.
Grant Information
Grants will be awarded for a period of up to 12 months. The ceiling amount is up to MMK 200,000,000 (two hundred million kyat).
Eligible Organizations
- This RFA is open to applicants from anywhere in Myanmar. The applicant should be a local (Myanmar) non-governmental organization, or nongovernmental educational institute or center, or media institute either registered or pending registration or network in Myanmar. The applicant should have a history of working in the field of media capacity building, and should currently have capacity to engage in media capacity building.
- The following are not eligible to receive grant support: individuals; political parties; military or other armed groups; government or semi-governmental institutions or media organizations (semi-governmental institutions and organizations being those that are 50% or more government financed or owned); international organizations; and faithbased organizations that exclude beneficiaries based on faith, or any other protected characteristics (such as sex, gender or sexual orientation).
- Grant applications will first be checked for eligibility. Applications that are not eligible will not be considered by the Grant Evaluation Committee.
How to Apply
All submissions must be made by email at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit http://themimu.info/calls-for-proposals