International Land Coalition

2008

Funding Opportunities

The Post-Graduate School of Agriculture and Rural Development (University of Pretoria), with funding from the Belgian Cooperation, is presenting a tailor-made capacity building seminar for agents directly engaged in land reform
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» Prix FADIGA pour la promotion de la recherche économique de la BCEAO
Date limite : 30 septembre 2008
La Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO) lance en 2008 la première édition du concours biennal dénommé « Prix Abdoulaye FADIGA» , pour la promotion de la recherche sur un sujet d'ordre économique, monétaire ou financier présentant un intérêt scientifique avéré pour les Etats membres de l'UEMOA et pour la BCEAO , d 'une valeur de dix (10) millions de francs CFA .
Peut faire acte de candidature, tout chercheur ressortissant de l'un des 8 Etats membres de l'UEMOA (Bénin, Burkina, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Sénégal, Togo), résidant ou non sur le territoire de l'Union et âgé de 45 ans au plus au 31 décembre 2008.

Pour toutes informations complémentaires, écrire à : courrier.drs@bceao.int ou consulter le site internet de la BCEAO : http://www.bceao.int/prix/ . Le formulaire de candidature peut y être également téléchargé. La date limite de dépôt des candidatures est fixée au 30 septembre 2008.
Call for nominations for the Ginetta Sagan Award for Women's and Children'S Rights
Deadline 1 September 2008
The purpose of the Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International USA is to recognize and assist women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread. The 2009 award will be given to a woman who works on behalf of the human rights of women .
For more information and to nominate candidates, please go to: http://www.civicus.org/new/media/2009-GinettaSaganAward-NominationForm.doc Prix 2009 Ginetta Sagan pour les droits des femmes et des enfants / Date limite: 1er septembre 2008 Le but du Fonds Ginetta Sagan de Amnesty International USA est de reconnaître et d'aider les femmes qui travaillent à la protection de la liberté et des vies des femmes et des enfants dans les régions où les violations des droits humains sont répandues. Pour plus d'informations et pour postuler, s'il vous plait téléchargez le formulaire de nomination au: http://www.civicus.org/new/media/2009-GinettaSaganAward-NominationForm.doc Not sure whether I have sent this to you already: PRIGEPP-FLACSO: Seminario Pobreza, Globalización y Género: Avances teóricos, de investigación y estrategias, con especial foco en América Latina

Profesora Coordinadora: Rosario Aguirre, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Fecha de dictado: 30 de Junio al 24 de Agosto 2008

Cierre de Inscripción: 16 de Junio 2008

Más información: http://www.prigepp.org/documentos/GyPC_2008.pps
Premios: Mujer y Ciudad
El Centro Eurolatinoamericano de Formación Política "Mujeres y Ciudad" lanzará próximamente la 2ª Convocatoria de los Premios a la Investigación "Mujeres y Ciudad". Se abrirá una convocatoria únicamente para la modalidad de Estudios Inéditos a los que podrán presentarse personas investigadoras a título individual, equipos de investigación, e instituciones sin fines de lucro.

Las temáticas a abarcar se centrarán en:
- Investigaciones que pongan en valor la contribución de las mujeres al avance de las cuestiones públicas.
- Nuevas propuestas metodológicas para la promoción de las mujeres en las instancias de decisión locales.
- Estudios locales que aporten propuestas para la mejora de las políticas de equidad de género existentes para el fomento de la participación política de las mujeres.
Los estudios considerarán los siguientes ejes transversales:
- Las políticas locales, que incorporen en lo posible una perspectiva internacional (ya sea a nivel latinoamericano o eurolatinoamericano).
- La cooperación descentralizada entre entes locales europeos y latinoamericanos.
- La comparación entre la situación de los entes locales de América Latina, o entre América Latina y la Unión Europea.

Próximamente se aprobarán y publicarán las bases reguladoras de esta segunda convocatoria de los Premios "Mujeres y Ciudad".

Centro Eurolatinoamericano Mujeres y Ciudad (Diputación de Barcelona)
dri.cursourbal12@diba.cat
http://urbal.diba.cat/mujeresyciudad/
» CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Research Grants, Environmental Economics Issues in Africa

With funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) will be implementing the first phase of a regional program to strengthen research capacity in environmental economics and policy in Africa over the next three years. Under this program, Research Grants are awarded on a competitive basis to research projects annually to increase capacity in research in environmental economics in the region. Eligible candidates include all researchers working in the field of environmental economics in Africa.

Proposals submitted before 31 July 2008 will be considered for presentation at the Sixth Biannual CEEPA Research Workshop to be held in 2 - 7 November 2008. The full announcement can be downloaded at http://www.ceepa.co.za/docs/rgfrseeiia.pdf
» Mundos de Mujeres
Women's World Universidad Complutense, MADRID (Spain), 3-9 July, 2008
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http://www.mmww08.org/
» AWARD Fellowship Announcement
Available to women agricultural scientists from: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia

The CGIAR Gender & Diversity Program warmly invites applications from qualified African agricultural women scientists for this innovative and exciting fellowship program. The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) program offers specially tailored 2-year career development fellowships, available at three levels: post-Bachelors, post- Masters and post-PhD.

African women from qualifying countries and conducting research in the following disciplines are strongly encouraged to apply: Crop sciences (including horticulture), soil sciences, animal and livestock sciences, plant and animal virology, agroforestry, agricultural economics, aquatic resources and fisheries, food sciences and nutrition, natural resource management and ecology, biodiversity conservation, entomology, agricultural extension education, molecular biology (applied to plant/animal breeding), and water and irrigation management.

The deadline for all applications: 18 July 2008.

Details and application forms can be downloaded here: http://www.genderdiversity.cgiar.org/resource/award.asp

Alternatively, you may write to AWARDFellows@cgiar.org to request a copy of the application forms.

For each of the 60 African women scientists selected in this first round (20 at each level), AWARD offers a challenging but rewarding package aimed at increasing her contributions in the service of fighting hunger and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It includes a series of career development resources designed to:
- strengthen science skills;
- strengthen leadership skills;
- enhance visibility and networking; and
- increase opportunities to share newly acquired skills, helping inspire the next generation of women scientists in Africa.
» PLAAS (Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies) is commissioning research on various aspects of poverty in South Africa, and calling for proposals for working papers on chronic and structural poverty in relation to:
- Land reform, food security and agricultural policy
- Social protection and social policy
- Industrial and trade policy
- SMMEs, the informal sector and the ‘second economy'
- Monetary and macroeconomic policy

Each paper can be funded up to R50 000 and will be presented at a policy and research seminar in March 2009. For detailed information please go to http://www.plaas.org.za/research/poverty/proposals . The closing date for proposals is 11 July 2008.
» Gender & Diversity Program of the CGIAR
Funding News June 2008 The CGIAR's Gender & Diversity Program pputs together a list of grants, fellowships and scholarships, mainly for women scientists and professionals.
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» ILC informs on training opportunity in India
invitation to attend The Workshop'08, being organised in India, by PRAXIS - Institute for Participatory Practices.
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» Funding opportunity Farmers Fighting Poverty
Strengthening Producers’ Organisations in Developing Countries “Farmers Fighting Poverty” allows for capacity building in a broad range of areas of interest for a farmers’ organisation. Based upon the inventory of past experience, reflecting the existing dynamics of farmers’ organisations, 17 different areas of support to farmers’ organisations have been identified within this programme, including participatory policy formulation, grass-roots participation, gender and women in development, and information and communication technology.

Who can apply?
Membership-based national farmers' federations in developing countries, i.e. representative organisations and cooperatives, that have links to IFAP or other agric-agencies (local or regional asscoiations should try to find support among national level federations of which they are or can become members). For more information on Agricord and the other agrio-agencies, please go to http://www.agricord.org/

How?
Agricord is encouraging eligible organisations to submit concept notes (1-2 page) which should cover the following topics:
(1) project context, target group, social and economic aspects, main stakeholders and partnerships
(2) project objectives, expected results, main activities
(3) tentative budget and funding, other sources of funding
(4) monitoring and evaluation: measurable indicators, sources of data collection.
If the concept note is accepted, a full proposal will be developed by the farmers'organisation with a supporting agri-agency to be submitted to the Agricord Programme Committee.
» African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) funding opportunities
The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) funds local, national, sub-regional and regional organisations in Africa working towards women's empowerment. The AWDF is an institutional capacity-building and programme development fund, which aims to help build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women's movement. In addition to awarding grants, the AWDF attempts to strengthen the organisational capacities of its grantees.

The AWDF funds work in six thematic areas:
- Women's Human Rights
- Political Participation
- Peace Building
- Health, Reproductive Rights
- Economic Empowerment.
- HIV/AIDS

The AWDF prioritises programs, which develop and promote women's leadership and advocacy across all these themes. These thematic areas have been selected because they feature very highly on the agenda of African women and their organisations.

Who can apply?
- Organisations can be local, national, sub-regional or regional African women's organisations, from any part of Africa.
- Local women's organisations should send in the names of two referees, one of whom should be a member of a women's organisation that operates nationally.

The AWDF makes grants in three cycles each year.
Applications can be sent in at any time.

Size of grants: Organisations can apply for grants ranging from $1,000 - $40,000. Kindly note that most grants will be for less than the maximum. Grants over $20,000 are only made to organisations which operate on a regional basis.

For motre information on how to apply, go to: http://awdf.org/pages/?pid=2&sid=24
» Open Society Institute (OSI) International Women's Program: Advancing Women's Rights via Strategic Partnership Grants

From 1997-2006, the OSI Women's Program helped build the capacity and sustainability of the women's movement in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (fSU). In 2007, the Women's Program, in collaboration with national and regional Soros foundations, and regional directors' offices, identified groups in the Middle East/North Africa, Africa, Latin America, and Asia to fund, with the focus on gender and transitional justice as well as multiple discriminations against women, while maintaining its partnerships in CEE/fSU.

To build upon this work, from 2008 to 2010, the International Women's Program will continue to support cutting-edge strategic women's rights
initiatives in countries where OSI works, in addition to awarding grants to key partners globally and ongoing institutional partners in CEE/fSU. This initiative includes support to Cutting-Edge Rights-Based Initiatives: To support targeted funding for cutting-edge initiatives that indicate courage of human rights defenders or organizations calling for respect for the rights of particularly marginalized or vulnerable groups in societies around the world. Examples of target groups which may receive funding in this category include the following: lesbian and bisexual women, women with mental disabilities, minorities or "lower-caste" women (e.g., Dalits), women prisoners, and domestic workers. For more information, please see the "Advancing Women's Rights via Strategic Partnership" grant guidelines. For further information (including Guidelines),
please go to
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/..
» African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) funding opportunities
The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) funds local, national, sub-regional and regional organisations in Africa working towards women's empowerment.
The AWDF is an institutional capacity-building and programme development fund, which aims to help build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women's movement. In addition to awarding grants, the AWDF attempts to strengthen the organisational capacities of its grantees.

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For more information on how to apply,
go to: http://awdf.org/
The CIDA Conference Fund reimburses expenses, such as registration, travel, accommodation, meals, incidentals and visa fees, incurred to bring eligible delegates to conferences, workshops, seminars and related events that support CIDA's programming priorities. Delegates/participants may not apply to the Fund directly; the conference organizers must apply on their behalf.

Only countries and territories eligible for Canadian Development Assistance. Only organizations may apply for funding towards a conference.

Proposals can be sent at any time during the year, but a complete application form with supporting documents must be received at least 16 weeks before the start date of a conference.
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The International Land Coalition is a global alliance of diverse organisations with the common aim of working together to promote secure and equitable access to land. Members pursue diverse approaches to achieving this goal, and the views and opinions expressed on this page are those of the organisations that submitted them, not necessarily those of other members of the International Land Coalition. Members are invited to submit material for this page to info@landcoalition.org