Deadline: 26 April 2019 The Weeden Foundation is seeking letter of Inquiry from organizations for its various funding programs in order to protect biodiversity. The Foundation works to protect old-growth forests, expand habitats for endangered species on public and private lands, and link key wildlife corridors. The Weeden Foundation has supported International and Domestic Population Stabilization projects based on the rationale that an increasing population causes greater impact on the … [Read more...]
Apply for 5th Youth Leadership Workshop on Global Citizenship Education
Deadline: 31 March 2019 The Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) is seeking applications for its 5th Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED (Global Citizenship Education) from 3 to 9 June 2019. The one-week Workshop aims to build capacity of dynamic youth leaders around the world to identify strategies to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically Target 4.7, and to carry out innovative initiatives on fostering global citizenship and human … [Read more...]
Kurt Schork Memorial Funds announces International Journalism Award Programme
Deadline: 31 May 2019 The Kurt Schork Memorial Fund (KSMF) has announced its International Journalism 2019 awards Programme. Since its inception in 2002, the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund has sought to support those journalists Kurt most admired, the freelancers and local reporters whose work is often poorly paid, mostly unsung and all too often fraught with danger. The three annual awards, for freelance and local journalism and, since 2017, for newsfixers, are recognized worldwide as a … [Read more...]
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of DRL: Evaluation Innovation Fund—Developing Tools to Map Social Movements
Deadline: 29 April 2019 The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) has announced an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects focusing on the development of applied research tools to assess the health of social movements. Objectives Assessing the Health of Social Movements: building an understanding of the operational health of social movements to support the broader democracy and human rights … [Read more...]
Injini Cohort 3: Africa’s First Edtech-Dedicated Incubation & Seed Investment Programme
Deadline: 17 March 2019 Applications to Injini Cohort 3- Africa's first Edtech-dedicated incubation & Seed Investment Programme are now open. This programme is open to both for-profit & non-profit EdTech startups. *For the first time ever, the Injini programme will be opened up to non-profits. The Injini Cohort 3 programme will launch in May 2019. For this, 8 start-ups from across Africa will join the programme for 4 months during which they will deliver workshops, mentoring and … [Read more...]
Facebook: Accepting Proposals for Computer Vision for Global Challenges
Deadline: 29 April 2019 Facebook is accepting proposals for pilot and early-stage research that extends computer vision technologies in developing countries. Facebook specifically seeks projects that address the technical challenges impeding computer vision in these contexts, including data and hardware limitations and better integration of new information sources, such as high-resolution satellite imagery. Competitive applications will similarly leverage computer vision to achieve global … [Read more...]
4th IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Photo Contest – My Place in Nature: Aspiring Photographers Worldwide
Deadline: 30 April 2019 IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, through its Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) and the Thematic Group Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) has announced the Fourth IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Photo Contest - My Place in Nature. Photographs may be submitted having a clear relation to the theme My Place in Nature, and two modalities: Individual Photo and Series of Photos. All submitted photographs will be evaluated in a first round by a jury. The … [Read more...]
DFID: Seeking Applications for Invest Africa Programme
Deadline: 21 March 2019 The Department for International Development (DFID) is seeking applications for its Invest Africa programme that aims to generate £1.2 billion of additional FDI by 2025, 13,750 direct jobs and 90,000 direct and indirect jobs. To support the programme, DFID seeks a Service Provider who will be responsible to design and undertake rigorous monitoring and evaluation activities. The Monitoring activities will require monitoring results across the whole Invest Africa … [Read more...]
The Prince Bernhard Nature Fund announces Call for Proposals to Save Endangered Flora and Fauna
Deadline: 1 February 2020 The Prince Bernhard Nature Fund has announced a call for proposals to support small, preferably local initiatives worldwide towards the conservation of endangered species (flora & fauna), or initiatives that in other ways promote the conservation and wise use of nature and our natural resources base. The Fund stimulates innovation and cooperation within the nature conservation sector, by challenging itself and others to think outside the box and to exchange … [Read more...]
Call for Proposals: Ramsar Small Grants Fund for Wetland Conservation and Wise Use (SGF)
Deadline: 6 May 2019 The Small Grants Fund was established by the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention at its 4th meeting (COP4, 1990), with the name “Wetland Conservation Fund”, as a mechanism to assist developing countries in implementing the Convention and to enable the conservation and wise use of wetland resources. As its name indicates, the SGF is intended for small-scale projects and does not replace the need for most developing countries and countries in … [Read more...]
Call for Applications: Council of Europe Prize “Crystal Scales of Justice”
Deadline: 31 March 2019 The Council of Europe is seeking applications for the 10th edition of its Crystal Scales of Justice Prize to identify and promote innovative practices regarding the conduct of proceedings, court organisation and the functioning of court systems in general. The Prize awarding ceremony will take place in Oslo (Norway) on 25 October 2019 in the framework of the European Day of Justice. Prizes The "Crystal Scales of Justice" Prize will be presented to the winner … [Read more...]
AU-IBAR Call for Proposals: Support implementation of Youth and Women in Livestock, Fisheries and aquaculture Agribusiness Incubation
Deadline: 28 March 2019 In the framework of the implementation of the Member state funds to “Support implementation of Youth and Women in Livestock, Fisheries and aquaculture Agribusiness Incubation”, AU-IBAR will undertake to utilize these funds to empower African youth and women to effectively participate in the animal resources sector. In order to empower African youth and women to effectively participate in the animal resources sector AU-IBAR will provide a Grant to support existing … [Read more...]
Apply for The Second Asian Conference on Population and Development
Deadline: 1 April 2019 Applications are open for the second Asian Conference on Population and Development with an aim to provide a platform for equal communication among the scholars in the developing countries of Asia. The second Asian Conference on Population and Development (ACPD) will be held on June 7- 9, 2019 in Hangzhou, China. The theme of this year’s conference is “Population Health and Public Governance”. They take Population Health and Public Governance as the main theme of … [Read more...]
U.S. Department of Commerce: Advanced Aquaculture Collaborative Programs 2019
Deadline: 15 May 2019 The U.S. Department of Commerce is inviting applications for Advanced Aquaculture Collaborative Programs 2019 to support leveraged federal and state partnership that harness the intellectual capacity of the nation’s universities and research institutions to solve problems and generate opportunities in coastal communities. Sea Grant anticipates at least $9,000,000 will be available to support the establishment of collaborative programs to build the capacity of Sea … [Read more...]
One World Media Fellowship: Inviting Applications from all around the World
Deadline: 10 April 2019 Applicants can apply One World Media Fellowship which is aimed at aspiring journalists and filmmakers, who seek to make a career out of reporting the global south, raising awareness about the developing world and breaking down prejudices. The fellowship guides filmmakers and journalists on a single project, and provide a supportive network of mentors and peers through the production and completion of their project. It seeks to champion diverse emerging talent, … [Read more...]
U.S. Department of Commerce: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research Needs in Aquaculture
Deadline: 1 May 2019 The U.S. Department of Commerce is inviting applications for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research Needs in Aquaculture. Program Priorities This competition will support research projects that will address critical gaps in social behavioral, and economic knowledge as it relates to U.S. aquaculture and the communities impacted and served by it. For this competition, the word aquaculture encompasses the techniques, communities, and stakeholders working with … [Read more...]
ALIPH launched Annual Call for Projects to Protect Heritage
Deadline: 15 March 2019 The International alliance for the protection of heritage in conflict areas (ALIPH) has launched its first call for projects to support a wide variety of projects to protect heritage that is endangered, under threat or which has suffered from negligence brought about by conflict. ALIPH is the only global fund that is solely dedicated to the protection of cultural heritage in conflict areas. To carry out this mission, the foundation finances preventive measures, … [Read more...]
Young Water Fellowship Program: Empowering Young Leaders from Low and Middle Income Countries
Deadline: 24 March 2019 Applications are open for the Young Water Fellowship Program to empower young leaders from low and middle income countries to implement projects to tackle water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), water pollution and water scarcity issues, by offering them an intensive training program, seed funding grants for their projects, and mentoring support by senior level experts during one year. For its YWF 2019 Young Water Solutions will offer 10 young entrepreneurs … [Read more...]
Wellcome Trust: Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science
Deadline: 2 July 2019 The Wellcome Trust is currently accepting applications for its Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science to fund teams who are tackling major health-related questions in the humanities and social sciences that require a collaborative approach. Funding Information A Collaborative Award is up to £1.5 million, for three to five years. Benefits research expenses, including research assistance or PhDs research/teaching replacement conference … [Read more...]
Access Agriculture: 2019 Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund
Deadline: 21 March 2019 Access Agriculture is inviting applicants for its 2019 Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund to propose innovative ideas to make a business, or expand their existing business, around the dissemination of agricultural videos. Access Agriculture is a non-profit organisation that supports the distribution of quality training videos to share practical knowledge on farming and food processing across the global South. Farmers in Latin America, Africa and Asia can learn from … [Read more...]
