Empowering Women, Youth, and Children for Deepening Democracy in Armenia
Deadline: 22-Jun-21
Within the EU-funded “FUTURE TODAY: Empowering women, youth and children for deepening democracy in Armenia” project UNDP Armenia’s Kolba Lab opens a special call for proposals seeking partnership with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) around co-design and incubation of youth-lead innovative ideas.
Open Call for Young Leaders advancing SRHR. Deadline to apply: 15 July 2021
Human Rights Initiative for supporting Women ($20,000 Grants). Deadline to apply: 1 September 2021
Top Dutch Donors that fund internationally to improve livelihoods in communities
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$15,000-$25,000 Funding for Women and Children living in Extreme Poverty. Deadline to apply: 31 July 2021
Seed Grant for Grassroots Organizations and Women-led Initiatives. Deadline to apply: 31 July 2021
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The call will aim at mobilizing a critical cohort of young innovators in generating and testing future-oriented ideas.
UNDP is seeking partnership with local civil society organizations for ideas that contribute to a better future for Armenians and that can be matured and further developed through ideation and incubation.
The component should be implemented with the active participation of youth (targeting at 14 to 30 year-olds) and should have at least the following components:
Open Call for Young Leaders advancing SRHR. Deadline to apply: 15 July 2021
Human Rights Initiative for supporting Women ($20,000 Grants). Deadline to apply: 1 September 2021
Top Dutch Donors that fund internationally to improve livelihoods in communities
One-time Microgrant for NGO Projects that generate Social Impact. Deadline to apply: 30 June 2021
$15,000-$25,000 Funding for Women and Children living in Extreme Poverty. Deadline to apply: 31 July 2021
Seed Grant for Grassroots Organizations and Women-led Initiatives. Deadline to apply: 31 July 2021
Grants to support NGOs working to end the HIV Epidemic. Deadline to apply: 30 June 2021
Fellows will receive Project and Connect Fund to address Water-related Issues
Apply for Project Funding in areas of Art and Culture (Arab Region)
This Call is offering Seed Money to Research Projects in Africa
Global Humanitarian Initiative seeks applications from anywhere in the world
Unrestricted Grants for improving Health Equity and reducing Health Disparities among Vulnerable Communities
New funding for Small NGOs to fight Infectious Diseases
Grants for Innovative Projects to improve Humanitarian Response
Call for empowering Social Entrepreneurs that are working to achieve the SDGs
youth mobilization;
ideas generated through scenario-building;
co-design of specific innovative solutions that contribute towards the desired future;
incubation of ideas into viable products, processes and projects. The applicants are expected to suggest a tailored methodological approach for each step.
Priority Themes
In the framework of the overall future vision, the CSOs are expected to tailored proposals in the following directions:
Future of Youth: Educated and R&D-based Armenia: youth aspirations; new skills and jobs; education; public spaces; open spaces; museums, libraries and alternative educational & scientific frameworks, research and development in new era, life-long education; spaces for ideation and cooperation, youth-friendly learning; research and development in new era; most requested science domains; space and time; alternative methods in science education; etc.
Resilience and civic protection: addressing shocks and uncertainties; environmental and man-made disasters; peer support in civic protection; etc.
Creative Industry: Creative Armenia at scale: creative industries, new media; visual arts; arts and crafts; history and culture; arts and technologies; etc.
Talent hub Armenia; Attraction points; talent creation, attraction, and retention: What they need to attract talent (co-working & co-living; entertainment; open spaces, public spaces, events, etc.)
Funding Information
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The call is open to non-governmental organizations from Armenia.
The selected solution will receive potential funding of up to USD 8,000 for pilots in Armenia to be implemented within 4 months.
Eligibility Criteria
The challenge will be open to non-governmental organizations from Armenia.
A prior experience of youth work will be an advantage.
All entries must focus on solutions that can be implemented in Armenia, but possibly rolled out in the region or globally.
Applicants submitting original work that has not been previously submitted to other challenge events will be preferred.
All entries will be subject to integrity checks during the competition to ensure the originality of the work.
Fund will be disbursed based on UNDP Innovation Grants skim.
For more information, visit http://kolba.am/dream-labs-co-design/