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INTRODUCTION
The Brazil Fund invites groups, collectives, and civil society organizations that act in the tackling of human rights violations in our country to present proposals for support of their work in the scope of the Call for Proposal 2021 – Carrying on with Rights.
In 2021, at least 20 organizations will be supported with sums up to R$ 40.000,00 (forty thousand reais, or circa 8000 USD) for a period of up to 12 months, for institutional strengthening, enabling material structure and basic work conditions, as well as ensuring the sustainability of their activities of promotion and defense of human rights. It is a flexible financial resource and the selected organizations have the autonomy to decide how best to employ it, considering the call for proposal’s goals.
The proposal submission period lasts from December 08th to February 26th, at 18h (BRT).
CONTEXT
For some time now, Brazil lives a political crisis with an escalation of authoritarianism, that deepens year after year and whose consequences have been intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic started at the beginning of 2020. At the same time, the criminalization of those who defend human and socioenvironmental rights grows exponentially as well as the repression against social movements and protests against the process of suppression of rights defended by the current government.
In that sense, civil society organizations, as defenders of everyone’s rights and especially the more vulnerable stretches of society, have been harshly impacted in their institutional capacity. That process threatens the acting of groups in the field of human rights and demands strategic measures to strengthen them in order to maintain democracy.
This call for proposal seeks to strengthen the acting in defense of rights in Brazil, with the guarantee of institutional support to movements, organizations, groups, and collectives that act in tackling human rights violations.
Through the Call for Proposal 2021 – Carrying on with Rights, the Brazil Fund will prioritize support to organizations and collectives with little to no access to other sources of funding.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATIONS THIS CALL FOR PROPOSAL SEEKS TO SUPPORT
The Call for Proposal 2021 – Carrying on with Rights intends on supporting the institutional strengthening of groups, collectives, and organizations that work in defense of rights and that have as a goal to tackle the regressions in the field of human rights, such as:
– Organizations, groups, and collectives that focus on defending the rights of Indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and other local populations, as well as rural workers and extractive communities in their fight for defending the right to land and territory, culture, and safety against the violence expressed in the alarming rates of rural violence, conflicts, and growing threats to socioenvironmental rights defenders, and invasions of Indigenous lands by gold-diggers, landgrabbers, and illegal woodcutters;
– Organizations of women’s rights defense in general, with a special emphasis on domestic workers;
– Organizations, groups, and collectives that gather Black women and men un their struggles against the violation of their rights considering the intersectional aspects of the oppression faced by these groups, including State violence and the defense of valuing Afro-Descendant religions;
– Organizations, groups, and collectives that have as a goal the defense of the rights of refugees, people who que have been forced to leave their countries of origin due to conflicts or persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, social group, or political opinion. Many are reoccurring victims of violations of rights such as the right to documentation relative to their migratory condition and restriction of access to the job market and public health and education services;
– Organizations, groups, and collectives that have as a goal the defense of youth’s rights in any of the lines exposed above;
– Organizations, groups, and collectives that have as a goal the defense of app-based workers’ rights, upon whose excess of duties, absence of labor rights, harassment, and lack of assistance weigh unjustly and disproportionately.
SUM OF THE GRANTS IN 2021
In 2021, through the Call for Proposal 2021 – Carrying on with Rights, the Brazil Fund will grant up to R$ 800.000,00 (circa 160,000 USD) to projects whose goals line up with the present call for proposal’s. The sum of the projects is of up to R$40.000,00 (circa 8000 USD), and their duration of up to 12 months.
CRITERIA TO RUN FOR THE CALL FOR PROPOSAL
1 – Each organization, group, or collective may present only one project.
2 – Projects from organizations, groups, or collectives with little to no access to other sources of funding.
3 – We will accept proposals from non-profit organizations, groups, and collectives even if they’re not formalized or have no CNPJ.
4 – We will not accept projects presented by governmental organizations, universities, international organizations, political parties, small to medium sized businesses, microbusinesses, and individual microentrepreneurs.
IMPORTANT DIMENSIONS IN THE SELECTION OF PROJECTS
-Adequation to the call for proposal’s theme;
-Focus in rights’ defense;
-Existence of ties between the proponent organization and the groups and/or communities affected by the problem which it intends to tackle;
-Network articulation;
-Adequation of the budget to the proposed activities;
-Innovative and unconventional proposals of action;
-Regional diversity.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PROJECT AFTER IT IS FORWARDED TO THE BRAZIL FUND?
The Brazil Fund’s team undertakes an initial analysis of the sum of received projects and, in sequence, the projects are forwarded to a Selection Committee formed by independent specialists, with no ties to the Foundation. The Committee will gather to point out which projects are to be supported, leaving the final decision to the Brazil Fund’s Administrative Council.
THE RESULTS OF THE SELECTION PROCESS WILL BE INFORMED THROUGH THE BRAZIL FUND’S SITE STARTING FROM JUNE 25TH 2021.
HOW TO SEND YOUR PROJECT?
Submission of proposals will be done via internet. In order to run, groups, collectives, and organizations must access the link below and fill out all the required information until 18h (BRT) of February 26th 2021.
The projects’ registration form may be accessed through the link at the end of this page.
Projects’ receival will be done only through the online system whose access is given in the link above.
Be attentive of the fact that, at the moment of filling out the form and sending the proposal, the sending of at least one letter of recommendation with the respective contacts of people/organizations who wrote it will be requested.
We don’t take in projects through email, much less projects delivered directly to the Brazil Fund’s headquarters.
We will not accept, under any circumstances, proposals sent outside the deadline. Therefore, we emphatically suggest not leaving submission of the proposals to the last day.
The Brazil Human Rights Fund will not extend this call for proposal’s deadline.
In case of questions
Questions will be answered only through email, please write to [email protected].
Before sending the email, verify if the answer to your question is in the Frequently Asked Questions section, in the + sign atop this page of the call for proposal, in the gray bar right above the title.