Objective and Overview
The Secretary’s Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls seeks to find and bring to scale the most pioneering approaches to the political, economic and social empowerment of women and girls around the globe. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the award is part of the State Department’s continuing emphasis on public-private partnerships, and is administered by its Office of Global Women’s Issues. The award, and the office, are founded on the premise that the major economic, security, governance and environmental challenges of our time cannot be solved without the full participation of women at all levels of society. The Rockefeller Foundation, as part of its mission to expand opportunity and promote more equitable growth, seeks to identify innovative approaches that can be scaled to address these challenges.
The purpose of this announcement is to invite interested parties to submit a concept paper that describes innovations that have proven to have a positive impact on the lives of women and girls politically, socially, or economically. The concept paper should: (1) describe the innovation, (2) how it has been successful, and, (3) how it can be supported and enlarged with additional financial support to empower women and girls in their communities.
All concept papers will be reviewed by State Department staff, and selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposals. The full proposal will include detailed implementation and budget plans. A jury panel, co-chaired by Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer and Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin, will assist in the selection of two award winners in 2010. Jury members include Cherie Blair, Beth Brooke, Paul Farmer, Noeleen Heyzer, Anne Mulcahy, Sheryl Sandberg, Sheryl WuDunn, and Muhammad Yunus. The final awardees will be invited to attend an award ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., and each will receive a grant of up to $500,000 to fund their project.
How to Prepare Concept Papers
Concept papers are due by June 21, 2010, to (email given in source link below). The concept paper should be a short, informal proposal that should not exceed five (5) double-spaced pages. It should describe a potential solution to challenge(s) facing women and girls, including, but not limited to, the areas of poverty, legal and customary constraints, health, education, violence, food security, or climate change. The innovation could be a tool to empower women and girls socially, economically, politically, legally and/or normatively. The paper also needs to explain how the innovation could be replicated, scaled up, and made sustainable.
Concept papers are to be organized as follows:
1. Describe the primary problem(s) concerning women and girls that your innovation or concept addresses.
2. Describe the solution, concept or innovation.
3. What stage is your concept in?
Idea phase
* Operating for less than a year
* Operating for 1-5 years
* Operating for more than 5 years
4. If your innovation has been operating for more than a year, tell us about the specific activities you have undertaken as part of your innovation, and their impact onwomen and girls. Please include both statistics (if appropriate) and specific examples as evidence of this impact.
5. How have you been able to sustain this innovation so far?
6. How will the award funding help expand the success of your project? Describe the expected results over the next three years.
Review Criteria
Concept papers and subsequent full proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Innovation: the applicant’s activity, product or process should represent a new strategy, or current strategy applied in new ways, for achieving improvements inwomen and girls’ empowerment.
Impact on women’s and girls’ empowerment: the applicant should clearly articulate a specific intended effect on the status or welfare ofwomen and girls.
Measurable results: the applicant should provide milestones and clearly describe the quantitative methods that will be used to monitor progress toward their stated goals.
Capacity: the applicant should demonstrate the capacity to take their innovation to greater scale, either on their own or with the assistance of additional resources and partnerships.
Sustainability: the applicant must identify the inputs or resources that will enable the innovation to continue to scale beyond the time when award funds have been expended.
For more information, visit this link.
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AUSAID Human Rights Grant Scheme 2010-11
The Human Rights Grant Scheme (HRGS) - managed by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) in consultation with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australian human rights experts and Australia’s network of Overseas diplomatic posts – involved in building the capacity of organisations in developing countries to promote and protect human rights in direct and tangible ways.
Human rights-focused organisations based or working in all ODA-eligible countries in Asia, the Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are invited to apply for funding under the Scheme. Grants range from between $20,000 and $100,000 for one year projects and up to $150,000 for two year projects
Expressions of Interest must be lodged by 4pm (local time) on Tuesday 15 June 2010 with the relevant Australian diplomatic post.
Expressions of Interest should be submitted in hardcopy by mail or in person to the Australian Embassy or Australian High Commission covering the country in which the proposed project will take place. Expressions of Interest will not be accepted by e-mail. Australian Embassy and High Commission locations and contact details are listed in Attachment B of these guidelines (pages 10-19). Envelopes should be clearly labelled “Human Rights Grants Scheme”
1)Eligibility Criteria
2)Eligible Project Activities
3)Application Process
4)Where to submit the application (EOI) form: List of Eligible Countries and Australian Diplomat Posts
5)Successful projects
USIP’s 2010 Annual Grant Competition for Peacebuilding Projects
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USIP’s 2010 Annual Grant Competition for Peacebuilding Projects
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) supports peacebuilding projects implemented by nonprofit organizations including educational institutions, research institutions and civil society organizations. Under its 2010 Annual Grant Competition, it is currently seeking applications from organizations around the world. Even individuals can apply for funding support under this call. This competition:
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o supports innovative peacebuilding projects involving research, the identification of promising models and effective practices, the development of practitioner resources and tools, the development and delivery of education, training and dialogue programs, and the production of films, radio programs, and other media.
o funds projects focused on preventing, managing, and resolving violent conflict and promoting post-conflict peacebuilding in settings outside the borders of the U.S. Awards support activities that apply across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. USIP welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature.
Topic areas of interest to USIP include, but are not limited to:
* Conflict analysis and prevention;
* Mediation and conflict resolution;
* Postconflict peace and stability operations;
* Religion and peacemaking;
* Women and girls in conflict and peacebuilding;
* Rule of law and transitional justice;
* Economies and conflict;
* Social, psychological, and physical impacts of war and conflict;
* Media and conflict.
Nonprofit organizations such as “institutions of post-secondary, community, and secondary education; public and private education, training or research institutions, and libraries” in the US and other parts of the world can apply for this funding opportunity. While applying, they should present the proof of nonprofit status in their country. The grant competition allows individuals to apply for the grant. However, they should identify a nonprofit organization through which the grants will be managed. “When applicants are employed by an eligible institution, such as a college or university, USIP requires that grants be made to the institution rather than to the individual.”
All applications submitted will be examined initially by the USIP staff, followed by in most cases an external peer review and then further consideration of the panels’ recommendation by USIP’s executivie officers. “USIP does not take positions on policy issues pending before Congress, the executive branch, or other domestic or international bodies, and does not fund “Track 1″ (official) mediation of international disputes. USIP will not fund grant proposals of a partisan political nature or proposals that would inject the grantee or USIP into the policy processes of the United States government or any foreign government or international organization. In addition, in accord with the United States Institute of Peace Act, Section 1709(b), USIP will not use political tests or political qualifications in selecting or monitoring any grantee. Projects that lead to policy recommendations for governments, international organizations, or nongovernmental organizations are welcome, even encouraged, although such recommendations will be those of the grantee and not USIP.”
Grants can be requested for a period of 1-2 years and grants are available between $40,000 and $120,000. “Proposed grant budgets are reviewed by USIP staff, and are subject to modification.”
Applications can be submitted online. The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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William T. Grant Scholars Program: Opportunity for Young Researchers in NGOs
The William T. Grant Foundation has announced that it is now accepting applications for its William T. Grant Scholars Program. Young researchers or professionals pursuing research and employed in a nonprofit organization within or outside United States can apply for this opportunity. As William T. Grant Scholars, the selected candidates will each receive a grant of $350,000 which will be distributed over a period of five years. Early-careerresearchers in the field of social, behavioral or health sciences can apply for this program. The Program prefers to support “applicants who already have a promising track record, but seek a qualitative shift in their trajectory asresearchers .” The Scholars should be ambitious in their research endeavors to tackle important questions that will advance theory, policy and practice for youth (8-25 years) and they use different methods, disciplinary perspectives and content knowledge in their studies.
Grants will be made available to organizations where the selected young researchers are working. Only tax-exempt nonprofit organizations or NGOs are eligible to receive these grants. The eligibility criteria includes:
* Applicants must have received their terminal degree within seven years of submitting their application. We calculate this by adding six years to the date the doctoral degree was conferred. In medicine, the seven-year maximum is dated from the completion of the first residency.
* Applicants must be employed in career-ladder positions at nonprofit institutions. For many applicants, this means holding a tenure-track position in a university. Applicants in other types of organizations should be in positions in which there is a pathway to advancement in a research
career at the organization and the organization is fiscally responsible for the applicant’s position. The award may not be used as a post-doctoral fellowship.
* Applicants outside the U.S. are eligible, but as with U.S. applicants, they must be pursuing research that has clear, compelling theory and either policy or practice implications for the settings of young people ages 8 to 25 in the United States.
* Applicants of any discipline are eligible.
The deadline to apply for this opportunity is 7 July 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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