Month: October 2020

Proposal

The Fund supports community projects in small scale that contribute to increase the wellbeing of a community in the short term. The projects must be in line with the mission of the New Zealand Embassy Fund, which seeks “sustainable development in developing countries, in order to reduce poverty and contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.”

 

The New Zealand Embassy will support activities and projects in the areas of:

• Social and economic inclusion
• Climate change and resilience
• Transparency and citizen participation
• Gender equality
• Social and/or health issues related to COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Projects with gender perspective, that can generate a major impact in the promotion of human rights and the environment will be specially considered.

 

Applicants

Recipients will be non-governmental organizations and community groups committed to non-profit development activities. Recipients mut have legal status and a bank account under the name of the organization. Funding will not be provided to individuals.

 

The call is open for organizations in Argentina and Paraguay.

 

Support duration

Projects must be specific and have duration of up to 6 months.

Projects must be ended by June 2021.

 

NON-fundable activities

• Political, religious or evangelical activities. Religious associations will not be excluded as long as the proposed project is consistent with the purpose of the New Zealand Embassy Fund, does not exclude followers of other religions and the funds are not used to support proselytizing activities.
• Donations
• Individual student scholarships
• International travels/participation in conferences abroad
• Sporting tours
• Financing of operational costs of the benefited association, such as wages and salaries, office supplies, and communications.
• Seed funding
• Capital assets: vehicles, computers

 

Professional fees for external services will only be considered by a percentage that does not exceed the 20% of what is requested.

The maximum amount per project will be up to NZD $25,000, or the equivalent in local currency.

 

The selected projects must complete a partial progress report and a final report.

The payments will be made in 3 (three) installments, as laid out in the following table:

• 1^st payment: 40%
• 2^nd payment: 40% (after delivery of progress report)
• 3rd payment: 20% (after delivery of final report)

 

Those in charge of the accepted projects must commit to confirm that they have received the goods and/or services requested and that they were used as established in the application form. All funded projects must be available for monitoring by visiting members of the New Zealand Embassy.

 

Application Process

The Argentine Network for International Cooperation (RACI) will be responsible for receiving the applications. The Application Form (available at the end of this call for proposals) must be sent duly completed to fondoembajadaNZ@raci.org.ar before the deadline.

 

All applications must be submitted as follows:

• Clearly written on the application form; additional information can be attached.
• Accompanied by budgets and purchase orders from suppliers of good and services when necessary.
• The form must be signed by a member responsible for the applicant organization.
• Send it via email to: fondoembajadaNZ@raci.org.ar
• Those applications sent after the deadline will be out of the selection process. Only one project per organization will be received.

 

The deadline to submit the projects is Tuesday, November 24^th, 2020 at 6pm (Buenos Aires time).

 

For more information, contact:

New Zealand Embassy Fund Manager

Email: fondoembajadaNZ@raci.org.ar

 

DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM HERE

Last Wednesday, on October 21st, we held the third and last virtual meeting with the support of AGNA (CIVICUS). After the Multisectoral Unconference vol. II, where we thought together about resource mobilization for organizations to achieve the 2030 Agenda, we decided to further open this space. The motto of the Multisectoral Unconference vol. III was: “Mobilization of resources in different regions of the world: from the global to the local context”.

In these times of constant change, we believe that it is important to rethink and look at successful experiences that we can replicate in our context. It is because of that in the latest edition of this event we have experts from different regions, who shared with us their experience in mobilizing resources. The three events maintained the same dynamics as the first. The goal was to offer a space for free, plural and horizontal exchange and debate around central themes currently occupying the CSO agenda in terms of mobilization of resources. The agendas were co-created by the participants, who took the reins of the event and were the real protagonists.

After listening to the speeches of the panelists, the participants chose the subject of their interest and divided into different sessions to talk to the respect.

The themes discussed on the Second Unconference were:

• Municipal internationalization: the mobilization of resources through decentralized and technical cooperation (Carina Lucero – Municipality of General Alvear)
• Are smart cities the only answer to the phenomenon of urbanization out of control? PostCovid: the future is in the towns (Cintia Jaime – ESVICIS)
• Post-COVID era: where impact is king and collaboration the norm (Darren Ward- Direct Impact Group)
• Public good incentives for compliance with the SDGs (Javier García Moritan – GDFE)
• The new ambassadors of the SDGs: organized civil society? (Lucas Carneiro – Ministry of Family Agriculture of Misiones)
• How to make the best possible use of resources to achieve the SDGs (Magdalena Saieg – Navarro Viola Foundation)

And those discussed on the Third Unconference were:

• Alternative organizational forms: innovative revenue models for the Civil Society Sector (Ed Rekosh – Rights Co-Lab, USA)
• Paradigm shift in mobilizing resources (Jimm Chick Fomunjong – WACSI, Cameroon)
• The importance of partners (Jamila Asanova – ARGO, Kazakhstan)
• Diversifying resources in the MENA region (Rajae Boujnah, Morocco)
• Alliances and collaboration: the best answer for the times we are living today (Eugenio Vergara – CDI, Chile)

At the end, plenaries were held in common with the most important points raised in the debate of each session. Very interesting proposals were presented that invited us to rethink ourselves to generate successful experiences in relation not only with the mobilization of resources but also to innovation, working together -community and other current phenomena.

We thank all those who participated in these meetings. The innovation, dialogue and plurality stood out to strengthen the sector!

Last week from Monday, October 12 to Friday, October 16, organizations from all over the world came together to say #BeAccountable. AGNA, CIVICUS’ Group of National Associations, coordinated Global Accountability Week 2020 (GAW); campaign in which a series of exchange activities focused on responsibility, transparency and legitimacy within Civil Society and its main interlocutors were carried out.

RACI was able to participate in some exchange spaces where participants were involved in various aspects of accountability, such as: accountability in the digital age, COVID-19 and accountability, the power of the participation of interlocutors from the Civil Society in accountability and self-assessment tools for transparency.

Reinforcing the importance of strengthening accountability mechanisms within CSOs, various self-assessment instruments were presented to put into practice and improve the organizations performance. These tools have measurable parameters to support organizations to consult with their internal and external interlocutors on their actions, helping to increase and improve their transparency, legitimacy and the organizations external and internal responsibility in order to make better decisions.

At the same time, the participants of the exchange activities and AGNA members shared their thoughts, tools and practices throughout the week on social networks, showing that #RendirSiCuenta.

Finally, in relation to the internal challenge that balancing and adapting to new forms of online work represents for organizations, there was a discussion about accountability during this pandemic context, concluding on the importance of: communicating internal control systems and good governance practices, investigate changes in the organization and its stakeholders and make work hours more flexible and invest in online tools to facilitate teamwork.

For more information, please visit the RACI, AGNA and CIVICUS Facebook pages:

https://www.facebook.com/raciarg

https://www.facebook.com/groups/agna.civicus/

https://www.facebook.com/CIVICUS/

With great joy we want to communicate that during the last Members’ Assembly, the results of the elections of the new members of the Executive Committee for the 2020-2022 period were announced.

We want, first of all, to say goodbye to the members of the 2018-2020 outgoing Committee, who have put their commitment and dedication to the service of the growth and consolidation of the Network during this management. Thank you Patricia Kahane, from Fundación Tzedaká; Bárbara Kuss, from the Huerta Niño Foundation; Emilio Xarrier, from MALBA; Noel Alonso Murray, of the Legislative Directory Foundation; and Raúl Zavalía Lagos, from the Provivienda Social Foundation!

We also thank the alternate members of this period Josefina Maxit, from Asociación Conciencia; Nicolás Rosenthal, from Fundación Hora de Obrar; and Manuel Jaramillo, from Fundación Vida Silvestre, who have participated and been available to collaborate with the Network.

On the other hand, we want to highlight the great participation of candidates during this 2020 election process, also reflecting the diversity and growth of RACI through the nominations of excellent candidates.

We present to you the new titular members of the Executive Committee: Daniel Pomerantz of AMIA; Manuel Jaramillo from Fundación Vida Silvestre; Natalia Gherardi from the Latin American Justice and Gender Team (ELA); Marisa Giraldez of the Food Bank Foundation; Mariela Belski from Amnesty International; Diego Aguilar from Fundación León; and Virgilio Gregorini from TECHO Argentina.

The elected alternate members are: Nicolás Federico, Reciduca Foundation; Nicolás Rosenthal, Fundación Protestante Diaconía Hora de Obrar; and Carolina Tamagnini, FUNDEPS.

We are very excited and we trust in the potential of this Executive Committee to accompany the management of the Executive Directorate.

Welcome!

Within the framework of a series of National Dialogues that the United Nations Argentina office has held in our country, RACI organized a meeting, on September 30, with member organizations with the aim of contributing to the construction of the strategic framework for Cooperation International of Argentina that the UN is conducting in Argentina for the period 2021-2025.

During the event, challenges and opportunities were analyzed on issues related to different dimensions, such as the social, economic, environmental, institutional development, human rights and gender equality dimensions.

The organizations offered their considerations on the plan presented around several questions: What do you think should be the priorities for UN cooperation? Do you consider that there are topics that have been omitted? What role do you expect the UN to play in Argentina in the coming years in the country? How could / should the UN cooperate for the State to meet its human rights and sustainable development goals?

Thanks UN Argentina for the proposal and to all our members for joining us!

A new report by Deloitte’s Monitor Institute estimates that, as a consequence of the economic crisis generated by the pandemic and the shrinkage of available capacity and resources, around 10% and 40% of nonprofits could consolidate or close their doors during the next 12 to 18 months.

This impact would be disproportionately greater in community organizations of marginalized groups as they have less access to capital. Furthermore, NGOs that depend on income from work and / or government contracts will likely be the most affected. At the same time, the existing power imbalance between donors and NGOs could be exacerbated, as the former would be the last financial backing for many organizations.

The report, titled “An event or an era? Resources for social service decision-making in the context of COVID-19,” outlines future scenario planning. These scenarios vary depending on the levels of continued severity of the crisis and on the levels of social cooperation, however, even the most optimistic future scenario presents significant difficulties.

With this in mind, the Deloitte Monitoring Institute launched a national effort with pro-bono investment, with the aim of applying future scenario planning and thus helping funders and NGOs prepare for the post-COVID-19 landscape.

For more information, please visit the following  link.

Proposal

 

The New Zealand Embassy Fund in Mexico is a program that allows flexible support for projects that clearly and directly contribute to the elimination of poverty, and that have a high impact on the socioeconomic development of the community.

The projects must be in line with the mission of the New Zealand Embassy Fund, which seeks “sustainable development in developing countries, in order to reduce poverty and contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.”

 

For its 2020-2021 call, the New Zealand Embassy invites NGOs and community groups to present project proposals in the areas of:

• Education (particularly of women and indigenous communities)
• Climate change and resilience
• Food security
• Disaster relief
• Community economic development (particularly indigenous and rural communities)
• Sustainable agricultural development
• Social and/or health issues related to COVID-19 pandemic.

 

It’s essential that the projects are sustainable and that the beneficiaries are involved in their execution and maintenance.

 

The call is open for organizations in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.

 

Applicants

Recipients will be non-governmental organizations and community groups committed to non-profit development activities. Funding will not be provided to individuals.

 

Support duration

Projects must be specific and have duration of up to 6 months.

 

NON-fundable activities

• Political, religious or evangelical activities. Religious associations will not be excluded as long as the proposed project is consistent with the purpose of the New Zealand Embassy Fund, does not exclude followers of other religions and the funds are not used to support proselytizing activities.
• On-site visits
• Non-requested donations
• Individual student scholarships
• International travels/participation in conferences abroad
• Sporting tours
• Financing of operational costs of the benefited association, such as wages and salaries, office supplies, and communications.

 

The maximum amount per project will be up to NZD $20,000, or the equivalent in local currency.

 

The selected projects must complete a partial progress report and a final report.

 

The payments will be made in 3 (three) installments, as laid out in the following table:

 

1st payment	60%
2nd payment	30% (after delivery of progress report)
3rd payment	10% (after delivery of final report)

 

Those in charge of the accepted projects must commit to confirm that they have received the goods and/or services requested and that they were used as established in the application form. All funded projects must be available for monitoring by visiting members of the New Zealand Embassy.

 

Application Process

 

The Argentine Network for International Cooperation (RACI) will be responsible for receiving the applications. The Application Form (available at the end of this call for proposals) must be sent duly completed to fondoembajadaNZMexico@raci.org.ar before the deadline.

 

All applications must be submitted as follows:

• Clearly written on the application form; additional information can be attached.
• Accompanied by budgets and purchase orders from suppliers of good and services when necessary.
• The form must be signed by a member responsible for the applicant organization.
• Send it via email to: fondoembajadaNZMexico@raci.org.ar
• Those applications sent after the deadline will be out of the selection process. Only one project per organization will be received.

 

The deadline to submit the projects is Friday, October 23^rd, 2020 at 6pm (Mexico City time).

 

For more information, contact:

New Zealand Embassy in Mexico Fund Manager

Email: fondoembajadaNZMexico@raci.org.ar

 

DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM HERE