BAN Toxics! Request for Proposals for Project on Chemicals Management

Deadline: 26 October 2013

BAN Toxics! (BT) – an independent non-profit, environmental organization that is devoted to preventing toxic trade in wastes, goods, and technology, and upholding the rights of developing countries to environmental justice, with particular focus on the Southeast Asian region – has announced a Request for Proposals.

Pursuant to BT’s objective of promoting environmental justice in particular its focus on leaving a toxics-free world for the next generation, the current BT programme on chemicals management is looking to develop the groundwork for an approach in achieving the sound management of chemicals to protect human health and the environment through a legally-binding, global chemicals convention.

Pursuant to this objective, BT sees the need to: expand its expertise and forge a partnership with qualified entities to strengthen BT’s knowledge of the global political landscape; improve its understanding of the limitations of existing agreements on chemicals and waste; and add to its experience in developing and negotiating these international instruments.

The following key activities will be undertaken by BT and its chosen partner in forging ahead in developing an approach for chemicals management through a legally-binding, global chemicals convention:

    Consultation with key stakeholders to build consensus on the need for a comprehensive and adequate global regime for chemical safety.
    Assessment of on-going policy processes and precedents from other contexts for potential application to a global regime for chemical safety.
    Advocacy for a comprehensive global regime for chemical safety.

In accomplishing the above tasks, BT is looking for a non-profit partner located anywhere around the world.
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SUN Movement Multi-Partner Trust Fund: A New Call for Proposals

Deadline: 11 November 2013

The SUN (Scaling up Nutrition) Movement Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) was established in 2012 with support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Irish Aid to ensure that catalytic grants reach governments, UN agencies, civil society groups and other SUN partners.  It is not designed to be a vertical nutrition fund for large scale investments in food and nutrition security, nor to replace existing funding pathways at country level.  Rather, it is a fund to be used for catalytic actions to enable, initiate or develop SUN Movement activity at country or regional level and provide appropriate global-level support, when other funding is not available.

The SUN MPTF operates through three financing windows designed to support:

    critical in-country actions in relation to national commitments and priorities for SUN;
    mobilization of in-country and global civil society so as to contribute to realizing these commitments and demonstrating results; and
    adequate finance for strategic efforts that contribute to the more effective working of the SUN Movement as a whole.

The current call for proposals is issued for Window 2 of the SUN MPTF –supporting civil society organizations in 42 countries as they contribute to realizing SUN objectives and commitments at country and regional level.

As civil society groups get organized into SUN CSO platforms, they activate multiple actions that lead to the following:

    Coordinated Civil Society Alliances in SUN countries (CSAs) are established
    In-country CSAs advocate effectively
    In country CSAs participate in national platforms for SUN
    CSAs contribute to better accountability in SUN countries
    The collective of CSAs are a functioning learning network

This call is open for an overall amount up to US$ three (3) million. To the effect of this call, proposals cannot exceed the overall amount of US$ 300.000 (three-hundreds thousands US dollars) each over a period of up 24 months maximum.

All proposals will have to be submitted by 17:00 CET on 11 November 2013.

Grand Challenges Canada: Seed Grants and Transition-to-Scale Grants for its Global Mental Health Program

Deadline: 9 January 2014

The Grand Challenges Canada has announced a Request for Proposals to provide two types of funding: seed grants and transition-to-scale grants under its Global Mental Health initiative.

Grand Challenges Canada seeks bold ideas with real-world impact to improve treatments and expand access to care for mental disorders that have the potential to be sustainable at scale. These ideas should be innovative, transformational, affordable, and cost-effective to address the large treatment gap for accessible, evidence-based, high-quality mental health care.

Specifically, to improve treatments and expand access to care, applicants must propose innovative solutions to one (or more) of the following specific challenges identified from the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health initiative within this priority area:

    Integrate screening and core packages of services into routine primary health care
    Reduce the cost and improve the supply of effective medications
    Provide effective and affordable community-based care and rehabilitation
    Improve children’s access to evidence-based care by trained health providers
    Develop effective treatments for use by non-specialists, including lay health workers with minimal training
    Incorporate functional impairment and disability into assessment
    Develop mobile and IT technologies (such as telemedicine) to increase access to evidence-based care

Seed grants support the development and validation of innovative ideas to improve treatments and expand access to care for mental disorders, offering up to $250,000 CAD each over a maximum of two (2) years.

Transition-to-scale grants support the refinement, testing, and implementation of innovative solutions that have already achieved proof of concept to bring them toward scale, offering up to $1 million CAD in matched funding over a maximum of three (3) years.

Grand Challenges Canada’s ultimate goal is to save and improve lives in low- and middle-income countries. As a result, funded projects are expected to demonstrate real-world impact on health outcomes in the developing world.
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Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development (Mozambique)

Deadline- 25 November 2013

EuropeAid is accepting proposals for Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development Program in Mozambique. The goal of this program is to  strengthen civil society in partner countries as a pre-condition for a more equitable, open and democratic society.

Objectives-

    Support the enhancement of livelihoods of people dependent on the informal economy, particularly in rural areas.
    Support the social inclusion of vulnerable and marginalized groups.

The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is €5.000.000,00 (2013 budget). The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 24 months nor exceed 60 months.

Eligibility & Criteria-

    be legal persons
    be non-profit-making
    be Non-State Actors (NSA) constituted in accordance with the legislation in force in Mozambique or one of the Member States of the European Union
    be established in  a Member State of the European Union or in Mozambique
    be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary
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