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Call
for Proposals: ICCO Small Grants Facility (ISGF)
ICCO
Deadline:
14 March 2011
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The ICCO Small
Grants Facility (ISGF) is an initiative to provide flexible, accessible
and manageable technical and financial support for innovative, citizen
driven and self-empowering initiatives by Zimbabwean Civil Society
entities working to advance Active Citizenship, Human Rights, Democratisation
and Conflict Transformation.
In engaging
entities working on the theme of Active Citizenship and Conflict
Transformation, ICCO seeks to make meaningful contributions to efforts
to redress the root and structural causes of the Zimbabwean crisis;
whose causes can be traced in the existing power asymmetries at
various levels which invariably result in the lack of democracy,
human rights abuses and violent conflicts. Thus ICCO's work
in Zimbabwe is mostly in advancement of initiatives that work to
address the widespread exclusion of poor and marginalised societal
groups from political participation, the denial of access to justice
and basic services as well as the increasing vulnerability of hitherto
self sustainable citizens' groups.
In particular
the ICCO bears affinity with initiatives that are concerned with
the following issues;
- the marginalisation
of citizens from decision making processes and their demobilisation
from progressive forms of organising for collective social action
and the promotion and protection of human rights,
- the weakening
of Civil Society particularly through the closure of democratic
space and the systematic denial of the fundamental freedoms of
speech, assembly and association,
- systematic
violations of human rights including the targeted violence and
repression of Human Rights Defenders,
- disregard
for and non-compliance by Public officials to International standards
and norms of human rights, good governance, free elections and
sustainable development,
- the continued
existence of and enforcement of repressive pieces of legislation
as well as the denial of access to justice,
- unresolved
conflicts and politically volatile contexts which remain vulnerable
to the escalation of conflict
ISGF is therefore
an integral component of the ICCO's work to help enhance the
structural organisation and informed participation of poor and marginalised
groups in Zimbabwe's development processes.
ISGF aims to
responsively support the work of hitherto under-supported initiatives
including those of a formative, emerging, alternative, once-off
and grass roots nature. It therefore gives preference to non-traditional,
grass roots and other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) who tend
to get marginalised by existing funding cycles. Relatively weaker
and marginalised constituencies such as women and youth groups,
social movements and rural organisations can thus access the Facility
to help them to occupy greater space, increase their voice and strengthen
institutional capacities.
By reaching
out to a more diverse range of entities working formally and informally
at various levels; the facility seeks to enhance the possibilities
for Civil Society to build power from below, expand its reach, engage
suppressed constituent groups, promote the innovation of alternative
development models, utilise Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs) and strengthen mobilisation for social action. Beyond that,
the Facility seeks to render available a resource stream that explicitly
aims to be responsive to the changing needs of Civil Society working
in a volatile and unconducive operating environment.
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