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INTRODUCTION
The Brazil Fund invites groups, collectives, and civil society organizations that act in tackling human rights violations in our country to present proposals for support of their work in the scope of the General Call for Proposal 2022: Brazil Fund’s 15 years – Resisting with those who Resist.
In 2022, at least 30 organizations will be supported with sums of up to R$40.000,00 (forty thousand reais, or circa 8,000 USD) for a period of up to 12 months, for institutional strengthening, enabling material structure and basic working conditions, as well as ensuring the sustainability of their activities of promotion and defense of human rights. It is a flexible financial grant and the selected organizations have the autonomy to decide how best to employ it, considering the call for proposal’s goals.
The proposal submissions’ period goes from December 10th to February 25th, at 18h (BRT).
Attention: we suggest attentively reading the full call for proposal with the contained guidelines and frequently asked questions (in the gray bar above the Introduction item). Should any questions remain, please write to [email protected].
CONTEXT
For 15 years, the Brazil Human Rights Fund has been supporting civil society groups in advancing their fight for rights. In 2022, the General Call for Proposal comes to celebrate the achievements reached by many groups that had their activities supported by the Brazil Fund and by many others that carry on in the fight for rights. The criminalization of those who defend human and socioenvironmental rights remains atop the list of problems faced by civil society, as well as the political and economic crisis caused by the advancement of authoritarianism in our country, which grows every day. Alongside them, deepening inequalities, are the impacts generated by the COVID-19 pandemic that has strongly struck our population, especially already vulnerable sectors of society.
In that sense, civil society organizations, as defenders of everyone’s rights, 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 in the sense of strengthening them with aims of maintaining 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, focusing on the unequal impacts caused by the current crisis upon the most vulnerable peoples.
Through the General Call for Proposal 2022, 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 AIMS TO SUPPORT
The General Call for Proposal 2022: Resisting with those who Resist 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 regressions in the field of human rights, such as:
-Organizations, groups, and collectives that focus on the defense of rights of women and the LGBTQIA+ population, Indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and further local populations, as well as rural workers and extractive communities in their fight for the defense of the right to land and territory, culture, and security, for environmental justice, and against the violence that is expressed in the alarming rates of rural violence, conflicts, and growing threats to socioenvironmental rights defenders, invasion of Indigenous lands by gold-diggers, landgrabbers, and illegal woodcutters;
-Organizations, groups, and collectives that gather Black women and men in their fights against the violation of their rights, considering the intersectional aspects of oppression faced by these groups, including State violence, the defense of valuing of Afro-Descendant religions, and environmental racism;
-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, whose excess of duties, absence of labor rights, harassment, and lack of assistance weigh unjustly and disproportionately.
SUMS OF THE GRANTS IN 2022
In 2022, through the Brazil Fund’s 15 years Call for Proposal – Resisting with those who Resist, the Brazil Fund will grant up to R$1.200.000 (one million and two hundred thousand reais, or circa 240,000 USD) to projects whose objectives align with those of the preset call for proposal. The sum of each project is up to R$40.000,00 (circa 8000 USD), and its 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.
5 – Should the same group or collective send more than one project, ONLY the last one registered in our portal will be considered. All the other ones will not be considered.
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 our site starting from June 24th 2022.
HOW TO SEND YOUR PROJECT?
In order to facilitate the process of sending projects to run for calls for proposals, the Brazil Human Rights Fund has launched the Projects Registration Portal.
Organizations and collectives that have participated in previous calls for proposals already have a registration, which must be updated to the new system.
All the groups, collectives, and organizations that have already sent, at any year, projects to run for the calls for proposals launched by the Brazil Fund have a registration, but they need to access the portal to create an access password and update the data, should it be necessary. This procedure will facilitate the sending of projects to new calls for proposals.
How to access the Projects Registration Portal
For groups, collectives, and organizations that have already sent projects before to the Brazil Fund
Access the portal through this link, then click I’m Already Registered and type the email used in previous registrations to receive instructions for the password’s creation. After that step, go back to the home page and log in with the email and new password.
Click here to follow the walkthrough that will aid in the creation of your password, updating of registration data, and sending of the proposal.
Access of new groups
Groups that intend to register for the first time in the Brazil Fund’s calls for proposals may also create their registrations. To that end access the portal through this link, then click First Access and fill out your group’s registration data.
Click here to follow the walkthrough in order to know how to register your groups and send the proposal.
Registration of the project in the Brazil Fund’s portal must be done in one take, since the portal doesn’t permit one to save part of the filled-out form to complete it later.
Thus, we will make available here a static, uneditable version of the registration form. That version is solely for information and doesn’t count as a registration. Therefore, it is possible to know its contents before effectively starting the registration process. Moreover, we offer herein the project budget model to annex in the system (click to download the budget model).
Don’t leave it for the last minute: create/update your password or register your organization, group, or collective now, and send your project as soon as possible. The submission of proposals will take place only via the internet. 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.
Questions about the registration mechanism will be answered through the email [email protected].
We don’t take in projects through email, much less projects delivered directly to the Brazil Fund’s headquarters.
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].
Questions about the registration mechanism will be answered through the email [email protected].
Attention: before sending the email, we suggest attentively reading the complete call for proposal with the contained guidelines and the “Frequently Asked Questions” session (in the + sign and in the gray bar atop this page in the call for proposal, right below the title). Should doubts remain, write to us.