Overview
The Fund for Global Human Rights is founded on the belief that securing basic freedoms worldwide requires effective frontline organizations challenging abuse wherever it occurs. Despite their importance, many on-the-ground human rights groups have woefully little access to the financial resources and support that would amplify their voices and increase their impact. The Fund for Global Human Rights was founded by a group of U.S. and Europe-based foundations in 2001 to respond to this funding gap.
The Fund seeks to increase the flow of financial resources to locally-based human rights organizations to strengthen human rights movements in countries around the world. Currently the Fund makes grants to human rights organizations based in the following regions: South Asia (Pakistan, India), West Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea), the African Great Lakes (Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo), North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), Latin America (Mexico, Guatemala), and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Philippines). We are not funding in any other countries at this time.
Application Information / Request for Proposals
Organizations seeking grants from the Fund for Global Human Rights must download, complete, and return the forms available here. Eligibility requirements for grants are clearly outlined in the Request for Proposals (application packet). Please read these guidelines carefully before you apply to determine whether your group is eligible for funding.
The Fund for Global Human Rights awards grants twice a year:
For prospective grantees based in India, Pakistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Uganda, application information is usually available in the grantee section of our website in October/November.
For prospective grantees based in Mexico, Guatemala, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, the Philippines, and Thailand, application information is usually available in the grantee section of our website in May/June.
Grants are awarded through a competitive and transparent grants process. The Fund for Global Human Rights operates and accepts proposals in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Thai. The Fund’s program officers review every proposal that is submitted. Each year, the Fund for Global Human Rights staff reviews hundreds of proposals, of which the Fund is able to support just a small number. The Board of Directors reviews recommendations made by staff and makes all final grant decisions.
Program Focus
Organizations requesting funding must be working to defend, protect or promote human rights. This work could include mobilizing popular opinion through human rights skills-building and organizing; exposing abuse through documentation; addressing violations through direct action, policy/legal reform, legal aid, and litigation; networking and coalition building to further the effectiveness of human rights work; and capacity building.
The Fund for Global Human Rights aims to provide funding for human rights organizations over the longer term. To that end, we maintain a long-term focus on specific countries and regions where we believe strategic grant-making can make a difference in advancing human rights protections over time.
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August 26, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Ashies Banana
From Ashies Banana
Schallmooser Hauptstr. 30-b
A-5020 Salzburg
Austria
Europe
E-Mail: banana@sbg.at
Tel: 0043.664.3836684 26.8.2009
The Executive Director of
Dear Madam/Sir
Request for Financial Support for Career development as a Trainer of grassroots African Women and youth Human Rights Facilitators and Non-violent trainers and leaders for 2009/2010
I am an African lady originated from Tanzania East Africa, a Women, Children and Environmental peace activist, with basic knowledge in African Traditional Healing, additional qualification in Tourism &Gastronomy, Nursing Science and a Certified Psychosocial Counsellor living in Salzburg, Austrian, and an Austrian national.
I am taking this opportunity to request for financial support/a grant for career advancement in Non-violent training, Mediation and Human rights education, to be a potential trainer of grassroots Trainers, African women and adolescent non-status refugees living in the European Union Countries and the grassroots trainers in east African countries, especially those who are living in refugee- recipient Countries e.g. Tanzania and countries which are/were affected by civil war, including Rwanda, Burundi, western Sudan(Darfur) and Eastern Congo. I will focus my activities on Refugees women, children and adolescents in refugee camps and their host community members.
Reasons for focusing on women, children and adolescents refugees and displaced persons as target group:
• Increased vulnerability to human rights abuses including sexual harassment and rapes, gender-based violence and severe sex discrimination (including that face youth MSM/WSW) which are also reasons many women, girls and boys flee their homes in the first place.
• Increased risk of HIV infection. Wars, crisis, emergencies and conflicts often force these population groups to flee to areas where the virus is prevalent. Women and girls and young sexual minorities (MSM/WSW) are also exposed to factors that facilitate transmission when they flee, including poverty, homophobia, the disruption of health services and social structure and increases in sexual violence.
• The “protection gap” that results from the international aid community’s focus on providing food and shelter to the displaced while largely overlooking their security and protection concerns. A good number of women, adolescents (girls and boys) are forced to sell sex in order to get food Aid from local and international organizations.
• Obstacles to reintegration and repatriation in the aftermath of a conflict. Abducted women girls and young sexual minorities (MSM/WSW) are often forced to serve as sex slaves, porters or soldiers in enemy militias and are therefore seen as accomplices and rejected by the community after the conflict is resolved.
• Increasing of racist incidents and police violence both in African Refugee Camps and in European Union Countries. There is need to offers anti-racist training, non-violent training, human rights education and legal support to victims and witnesses of racist incidents.
The training project which I have planned to start will be a mobile peace and Human Rights School(North-South Dialogue) which will emphasize on empowerment of women, girls, children (girls and boys), disadvantaged people and young sexual minorities (MSM/WSW).
The empowerment will focus on issues related to: human rights awareness, knowledge of gender and reproductions rights, networking and peace communication using new and traditional communication technology, ability and strategies in networking for advocacy, knowledge food rights and security, awareness in environmental and inheritance rights, strategies in conflict resolution, mediation, dialogue, and lobying and peace management.
The subjects will include: rape(of women, children and sexual minorities), Child labour, homophobia, child trafficking, sexual abuse of children by relatives (incest) and service providers, forceful marriages, Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Female genital mutilation (FGM)
Objectives:
• Integrating gender perspective into all disaster, conflict, emergency risk management policies, plans and decision making process including those related to risk assessment, early warning, information management, Education and Training.
• To Train and Promote the use of non-violent action to prevent and end wars, conflicts and human rights violation of Children, Women, Young People(Girls and Boys), Disadvantages and young sexual minorities(MSM/WSW)
• Promoting and mobilizing women’s, youth’s and Children’s full participation in defining peace and human rights in their cultural and fair- religious context.
• Lobby for the implementation of a gender sensitive conflict analysis as part of assessment process in order to better understand the respond to complex dynamics of conflicts.
• Mobilize, motivate and promote full participation of the target groups in data collection and in depth examples that demonstrate the necessity and benefit of incorporating gender diversity issues in non-violent training and peace-building.
• Lobby the Governments, Communities and International Organizations to design a prosecution strategy for sexual violence at community, national, regional and international level.
• Develop community-based strategies for the wellbeing, safety and dignity of victims of sexual violence, including the provision of information, support and protection services, safe environment and witness preparation.
• Raising public awareness including working with media and IT for understanding of understanding and advocating of Non-violent and Human Rights of the Target groups mentioned above.
• To initiate culture centred rehabilitation programmes for traumatized children, women and young sexual minorities which will be led and facilitated by peers in the local community.
• To lobby EU/ACP leaders to consider special needs of African women, children and vulnerable youth during emigration, integration, re-integration, resettlement, repatriation and post conflict reconstruction.
• Working in teams to identify key gender diversity champions at the grassroots level and mobilise political will.
• To lobby the governments and community leaders to incorporate gender perspective, Age and sexual orientation into peace keeping operations, and where appropriate, field operations should consider Age(young and old) and gender diversity also in context of sexual orientation.
• To be instrumental in holistic healing of psychological damage caused to children, women and young sexual minority by their experiences of war, violence and disasters.
• To provide women, young people, disadvantages and young sexual minorities(MSM/WSW) with a focus in social skills and opportunities to build bridges for economic, social and political improvement.
• To teach children and adolescents their rights in words and pictures: teaching children, to learn about every human’s basic rights and the differences between needs, wants and rights. They will learn that with rights come responsibilities, such as the responsibility not to infringe the rights of others and the responsibility to support others in their quest for rights.
They will learn about the importance of honesty, trust, tolerance and respect for others. To let them find out about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and that it applies to all children, whoever or wherever they are. They will also learn how human rights apply in their school and in the local community. They will be mobilized develop strategies for ensuring that rights are upheld and to promote equality in the classroom and playground, and to encourage others to respect and care for one another.
Target Group: Children and adolescents (out and in schools) at “high risk” of violation and abuse through civil wars, conflicts, poverty, HIV/AIDS and other disasters and emergencies. In refugee camps, institutional foster care, Guardian care etc
Teaching Strategy: Using words, Sports, IT (computers-multimedia), Pictures, self-painting, ecological environment, and narratives.
• To promote the principles of equality and human rights and highlight the contributions of Children, women, young people(girls and Boys) and young sexual minorities(MSM/WSW) as leaders in local and global business and civil societies.
• To provide public opportunities for engagement and knowledge sharing of issues affecting global peace and security.
• Networking and communication with global and regional partners to help to integrate international human rights principles and action strategies into national and local application.
• To help the target groups to improve their social skills, enriching their beliefs and develop their sense of identity.
In order to attain necessary qualification in Non-violent Training, Mediation, Human Rights Education and conflicts resolution, on my own initiative I have managed to get admission to follow an intensive 24 months(2 years) Master of Arts in Mediation and Conflict Resolution with emphasize to the training of grassroots non-violent trainers and mediators. The study will start on October 2009 and October 2010 for 2 years.
ARGE BILDUNGSMANAGEMENT WIEN
Master of Arts Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Friedstraße 23, A-1210 WIEN
office@bildungsmanagement.at
Internet: http://www.bildungsmanagement.at
The total costs of the course will be about 15,000 (Fifteen Thousand Euro) including tuition fees, Board, travel expenses, seminars and stationary).
As i am Jobless and work as a private volunteer, I do not have any means to finance the training course. I will be very appreciative if you will be in position to help me to cover the above mentioned costs.
After fininishing my professional training, i will expand my current activities by starting a partnership project EU/East Africa for Non-violent training of grassroots Trainers- (women, children and youth leaders), in sub Saharan Africa and for the African Refugees and migrants living in the European Union Countries.
Thank you in advance
In peace
Ashies Banana.
Through my continuous voluntary services for Women and children Peace, I was awarded The Woman of Peace Award 2005 from:
Women’s Peacepower Foundation, Inc
Attention: Diane McCabe Vaughan – Director
P.O. Box 1618
Zephyrhills, FL 33539
E-mail: peace@womenspeacepower.org