Posted on December 19, 2012
Deadline: January 14, 2013 (Letters of Interest)

Disability Rights Fund Invites Letters of Interest From India and Ukraine

The Disability Rights Fund seeks to strengthen the participation of disabled persons' organizations in the advancement of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the country level in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and Eastern Europe/the former Soviet Union.

As part of the fund's first grantmaking round of 2013, Letters of Interest are invited from organizations in Ukraine and India (states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, and the national capital of Delhi only).

Letters of Interest will be accepted from single organizations or partnerships for small grants; or mid-level (state, regional, provincial, or district) DPO-led coalitions for mid-level coalition grants; or national DPO-led coalitions for national coalition grants.

Small grants are one-year grants of $5,000 to $20,000 designed to help organizations build a broader movement to advance the CRPD at the state and local levels. Grassroots, emergent, and more marginalized groups are encouraged to apply.

Mid-level coalition grants are two-year grants ranging between $30,000 and $40,000 a yearand are designed to enable grantees to collaborate at the state (in a federal system), provincial, regional, or district levels.

National coalition grants are two-year grants ranging between $30,000 and $50,000 per year and are designed to support the advancement of the CRPD at national levels through lobbying for legislative changes (including but not limited to CRPD ratification), monitoring and reporting on implementation of the CRPD or other international human rights mechanisms, or following up on the recommendations made by UN human rights mechanisms to states in regard to implementation of the rights of people with disabilities. Only coalitions of three or more organizations will be funded.

All grants provide project-specific support. Cross-disability and other partnerships in-country are strongly encouraged, as are projects that address particularly marginalized sectors of the disability community.

Visit the DRF Web site for complete program information and the application form.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

Primary Subject: International Affairs/Development
Geographic Funding Area: National

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