The Urgent Action Fund for Women Human Rights Defenders

Deadline: Ongoing

The Urgent Action Fund for women’s human rights, a global women’s fund to protect, strengthen and sustain women and transgender human rights defenders at critical moment, accepts grant applications for immediate support to women/transgender human rights defenders under its Rapid Response grant. These are the funding tool used to support interventions by activists in a strategic and timely manner.

Categories

1. Potentially precedent-setting legal or legislative actions, or actions that aim to protect a precedent that has already been set.
2. Protection and security of women human rights defenders – the Evacuation grants fall under this category.

Areas of Work

• Peace building
• Environmental Justice
• Land Rights
• Sex Worker Rights
• LGBTQ Rights
• Reproductive Rights
• and Other Issues

The activists applying for the Rapid Response Grant will receive response within 72 hours and funds disseminated within a week. Grant request up to $5,000 are considered for funding.

Eligibility Criteria

• Grant proposals must be for the action that promotes the advancement of women’s human rights.
• The specific event or situation the applicant’s organization is responding to should be unanticipated and action must happen quickly to be effective.
• The applying group must have the support of others involved in women’s human rights or related fields, locally or globally.
• Women/transgender people must be the primary decision-makers in the organization, group, or action.
• Applications can be submitted in any language and any time of the year.

Are you from Africa? Apply for Urgent Action Fund-Africa.

Do you belong to Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean? Apply for Urgent Action Fund-Latin America.

For more information, please visit Apply for a Grant.

Abilis Foundation Small Grants for Projects Initiated by Persons with Disabilities

Deadline: Open

Organizations run by people with disability (related to mobility, vision, hearing or any other type) can secure small grants from the Abilis Foundation to implement the projects they initiate. Primary objective of the Abilis foundation is to build the capacity of people with disabilities in the Global South to improve the quality of their lives. To achieve this goal, the Foundation provides funding for projects that will lead to positive and sustainable change for people with disabilities.

Grant support range from EUR500 to EUR10,000 for the projects initiated by persons with disability. 10% of the total grant for the project must be contributed by the applicant organization.

Project Priorities – the Foundation supports projects that promote -

1. Equal opportunities
2. Independent living
3. Human rights
4. Independent livelihood

Special priority is given to projects on human rights of disabled people and activities developed and implemented by disabled women. Organizations run by parents of children with disabilities can also apply for funding.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must live in a country defined as qualifying for Official Development Assistance by the United Nations and the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).
• Applicant organization must be legally registered and own certificate of registration. Exceptions can be made, interested applicant must contact the Abilis office.
• An organization can submit only one application per year.

Complete application materials include – application form with signature, work plan, budget, two reference forms, and a copy of certificate of registration (or an explanation why it is not available).

For more information, please visit How to Apply for Abilis Foundation Small grants.

The Bloomberg Initiative Grant up to US$500,000 for Tobacco Control Interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

Deadline: 1 August 2014

The Bloomberg Initiative managed by the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and Lung Disease invites project ideas for projects designed to develop and deliver high-impact evidence-based tobacco control interventions.

Grant request can be made between US$50,000 to US$500,000 for short-term, one-year or two-year project proposals.  Priority is given to projects with greatest numbers of tobacco users. Approximately two-thirds of the world’s tobacco users live in following fourteen countries – China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Ukraine, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Project Priority

1. Tax and price measures, including anti-smuggling measures
2. Direct and indirect advertising bans and effective enforcement of bans, including promotion and sponsorship
3. Establishment of smoke-free workplaces and public places, and effective enforcement of smoke-free policies
4. Implementation of graphic warning labels on tobacco products
5. Other evidence-based regulatory/legislative initiatives Development of strategic alliances and coalitions, monitoring Industry behavior and practices, and strategic litigation will also be supported if improving tobacco policy is the central goal.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants can be from all low-and middle-income countries.
• Applicants can be government (national Ministries, state/provincial authorities and affiliate offices) organizations and non-governmental organizations (including civil society organizations, educational institutions and others) with relevant advocacy experience aimed at changing or implementing policy.
• Applicants must be recognized legal entities capable of entering into contractual arrangements, receiving foreign funds and assuming legal and financial obligations.
• NGO applicants cannot be the recipients of financial support from any tobacco product manufacturer or the parent, subsidiary or affiliate of a tobacco product manufacturer.

For more information, please visit Bloomberg Initiative Call for Proposals.

Bill Gates Foundation’s Grant Opportunity for Agriculture-Nutrition Impact Studies

Deadline: 8 August 2014

Academic institutions, research institutions, civil society organizations, and/or private organizations in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are invited to submit Concept Memos to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This opportunity invites applicants to conduct innovative, large-scale studies in agriculture to improve nutrition and health outcomes. This is a joint call of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant program aims to deliver high-quality large-scale evidence linking agriculture, nutrition and health.

Applications can be made for large-scale, medium to long-term research studies and evaluations that will deliver robust evidence on the impact of agriculture on nutrition and health outcomes. The knowledge generated from these research studies will contribute to nutrition-sensitive programs and policies in agriculture at the national, regional and global levels.

Funding Modalities

1. Window 1: Grant of $3.5 million per project for interventions and study designs that are fully supported by existing formative and feasibility research. The grant amount is for a 5 years period.
2. Window 2: Grant of $100,000 per project for interventions that are not supported by formative and feasibility research. The grant amount is available for 6-12 month.  Proposals seeking up to $250,000 may be considered if the applicant is able to strongly justify this higher level of investment.

Applicants with significant experience of conducting research in developing country settings and evidence of successful capacity strengthening of developing country research institutions are prioritized.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants can be academic institutions, research institutions, civil society organizations, and/or private organizations demonstrating specific competencies relevant to the program.
• Applicants must be able to demonstrate past performance in the delivery of high-quality experimental or quasi-experimental research in agriculture, nutrition, or food security with first-class track record of publication of research findings in international peer-reviewed academic journals.
• Applicants must have an ability to transfer research findings to policy and program dialogue for evidence-based decision making and action.
• Applications must closely align with the goals of DFID and the foundation’s research strategies in agriculture and nutrition and clearly propose a project that will substantially contribute to filling an evidence gap at a global and/or country level on linking agriculture, nutrition and health.
• Applicants must be established organizations with partnerships in the country or countries where work will be implemented.

Selected Concept Memos will be notified by 10 November 2014 to submit full proposal.

For more information, please visit RFP Summary Agriculture-Nutrition Impact Studies.