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Grant Program 2014 - The Keidanren Fund: Conservation Fund

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Closing Date: December 10,2013.

The Keidanren Fund supports field projects in environment, biodiversity, and natural resources in developing countries, with emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. The program is open to groups and organizations with appropriate legal status, and at least three years of experience in nature conservation. Grants are for one year. 

Projects meeting all of the following four conditions:
§  Projects carried out for the purpose of nature conservation in developing countries, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. Priority is given to projects for preserving biodiversity.
§  Projects expected to receive appropriate levels of cooperation from the host governmental agencies, related international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and the local citizenry.
§  Projects that do not serve the special interests of any specific corporation or individuals.
§  Projects that will be carried out by persons with sufficient scientific expertise, or with the advice and cooperation of persons having such expertise.

Eligibility:
A group or organization meeting all of the following three conditions
§  A group capable of making appropriate reports, as requested by the Fund, regarding progress in implementing the funded project and its financial status including budgetary matters and settlements of account.
§  A group with corporate status or a similar level of public trust.
§  A group with a record of at least three years of carrying out nature conservation projects.

Term of Grant:
1.    Funding will be granted for a period of one year, from April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015. For multi-year projects, application for continued funding must be made for each subsequent year. A condition when applying for continued funding for a subsequent year is submission of an Interim Report for the current year of the project by the deadline for submission.

2.    Funding of the same project is in principle limited to three years. (Funding will not be granted for four ormore consecutive years.)

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Call For Proposal 2014 - SUN: Movement Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF)

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Closing Date: November 11,2013.

The SUN 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 Management Committee of the SUN Movement MPTF announces a new call for proposals to support civil society organizations (CSOs) to mobilize in-country and globally so as to contribute to realizing SUN commitments and demonstrating results.  

 This call is for an overall amount up to USD 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. The MPTF Management Committee will review all proposals in its meeting after the call is closed in late November 2013.

All the proposals will be assessed against criteria that have previously been set by the Management Committee. These include: 
§  the choice of the participating UN organization to facilitate any adjustment to the proposal required by the Management Committee and to support implementation of proposed activities [we have concluded that there are advantages to working through current UN mechanisms for joint agency action - such as the REACH partnership - where they are  available];
§  the technical soundness of the proposal (situation analysis, institutional clarity, clear deliverables, means of verification, conflict of interest management procedures in place or in process);
§  a focus on clear and measurable results;
§  the extent to which intended activities of the CSO alliance are aligned with national policies and strategies for scaling up nutrition and the degree of support from the SUN country Focal Point (on behalf of the national SUN multi-stakeholder platform) for these activities;
§  the extent to which the proposed activities of the alliance are linked to (and backed by) other civil society platforms in-country (ideally these would be demonstrated by signed letters of support or similar testimonials) with a view to more inclusive civil society participation in national SUN platforms;

§  the planned use of any grant that will be received from the MPTF (the MPTF position to date has been that funds should not normally be used to pay per diems and other allowances for civil society participation in SUN-relevant events, for engagement of international consultants or for the development of communications and dissemination tools that already exist within the SUN Movement and/or are accessible via the SUN website).

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Call For Proposal 2014 - PEP: For Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment (PAGE)

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Closing Date: December 10,2013.

In 2012, PEP was granted funding by the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom (or UK Aid) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada to lead a new research initiative entitled “Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment” (PAGE) in developing countries.
Find out more about the PAGE program here - including the list of projects selected/supported under the previous (2012) PAGE funding round. You may also download the PAGE-2 CFP flyer, for circulation in your network(s). 

Applicant teams are generally composed of at least one senior researcher, leading several junior researchers, and must:
§  be gender-balanced (at least 50% female researchers)
§  be comprised exclusively of individuals born and living in a developing country. Priority is given to low income countries (LICs), fragile and/or conflict states, but proposals are welcome from all developing countries
§  present sufficient academic and/or professional background in economics research/policy analysis

However, for each PAGE call for proposals, a different list of specific priority issues - yet always under the broad theme of inclusive growth and employment - are identified as especially relevant to address specific knowledge gaps and policy needs in terms of evidence base. These issues are identified by the PAGE policy group - high-level development policy experts from different regions of the world - in collaboration with PEP lead researchers - international experts in the field of development economics. 

See below for the list of priority issues for projects to be supported through the second (2013) PAGE funding round:
§  Safety net complementarities
§  Providing social protection to the informal sector
§  Youth employment and entrepreneurship
§  Employment intensity of non-agricultural growth
§  Discrimination in credit access for female entrepreneurs

§  China's growth: challenges and opportunities for developing country labor markets

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