29 Mai 2016 Il y a 8 years
We are looking to fund advocacy projects focusing on abuses of/increased respect for cultural rights and for rights of artists and cultural operators from or working with ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (including refugees). Each project should aim to influence relevant instances (international or regional) and/or decision makers in each country.
In the framework of the European Union (EU) funded regional programme “MedCulture”, Minority Rights Group International, in partnership with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, the Civic Forum Institute Palestine, and Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies, is currently seeking proposals from civil society organizations for the advocacy section of the “Drama, Diversity and Development” project (DDD).
The DDD project is one of three culture projects funded by the EU within the regional programme “MedCulture”, which aims to support the efforts of the Southern Mediterranean countries in building deep-rooted democracy and to contribute to their sustainable economic, social and human development, through regional co-operation in the field of culture. It supports activities fostering cultural policy reform and reinforcing the capacity of cultural policy makers, as well as promoting investment and the development of cultural operators’ business capabilities.
Selected projects, which will last 3 months, will receive grants between €5,000 and €10,000.
Grants will cover staff time, as well as direct costs (including potentially travel outside the target countries to e.g. Geneva or New York or to an African Commission event if international advocacy is part of the project).
Project countries and examples of relevant minorities
All applicant organisations must be currently registered in and must have been established (as demonstrated in the organisation’s statutes) in one of the project countries listed below. Definitions of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are complex and contested and are specific to each context. Possible indications of some relevant minorities per country is given in brackets after each country:
All applicants must be able to show that they can deliver the project safely and without undue risks to project staff, and other participants involved taking into consideration the security context in the country concerned.
The applicant must be non-profit.
Our team must be able to legally transfer funding to your organisation without constraints. Your organisation must be eligible to legally receive funding from abroad without constraint or requiring the permission of a Ministry or Government body for each grant.
Preference will be given to projects that concern barriers and problems that affect the ability of cultural operators from or working with excluded minority communities to carry out cultural activities and to use culture as a tool for wider social and economic development of their communities.
Also, you must not be in a case excluded from receiving EU funding . (See situations listed in Section 2.3.3. of the Practical Guide to contract procedures for EU external actions (available from the following Internet address: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/prag/).
Eligible themes and examples of projects
Cultural rights are a category of human rights aiming at ensuring that all people without discrimination can freely access, participate and contribute to cultural life. They are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to Minorities, and they are protected by a number of international treaties, at the international and regional levels.
Applied to minorities and indigenous peoples, cultural rights include the following elements:
Examples of violations of cultural rights include (the list is non-exhaustive):
Examples of advocacy activities:
Grants will be for local, provincial, regional and/or international advocacy campaigns which could include roundtable meetings, awareness-raising events, one to one meetings with officials or politicians, adverts, online campaigns, media campaigns, collection and presentation of evidence of abuses, including short films and reports, shadow reports or submissions to e.g. special rapporteurs or similar mechanisms or any other similar work aiming to raise awareness and/or change policy or implementation in this area.
Preference will be given to projects that have a clear goal to work towards change of a discriminatory or exclusionary practice. Preference will also be given to projects addressing practices that impact on the ability of cultural operators to carry out their work. Projects that limit their goal to raising awareness of an issue are less likely to be selected.
Examples of advocacy activities include (the list below is indicative and not exhaustive):
1) At the national level:
2) At the regional level (only for project countries members of the African Union):
3) At the United Nations level:
Please note that your advocacy strategy can either revolve around one activity, linked to a specific objective, or comprise several complementary activities, and can articulate different levels (local, national, regional, international advocacy) in the pursuit of your advocacy goal.
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