Benefits
The Foundation offers grants of up to £200,000 over four years in support of innovative project ideas and approaches that seek to strengthen the ability of civic voices to engage with governments and that have the potential to improve governance and development outcomes through their active participation.
Eligibilities
- The applicant and, when applicable, partner(s) are registered not-for-profit civil society organisations (CSOs). The applicant and, when applicable, partner(s) must be registered in a Commonwealth Foundation member country and the project should take place in an eligible Commonwealth Foundation member country. A list of countries eligible under this call is available at Annex one.
- The application is for funding for a maximum of £50,000 per annum
- The applicant is applying for funding for a maximum of four years
- The applicant does not have an existing grant from the Commonwealth Foundation at the time the application window is open.
- The average of the applicant’s total income over the last two years is less than £3m
- The project must address one or both Commonwealth Foundation’s outcomes
- The applicant will provide the following documents as part of the application:
- completed logic model using the Commonwealth Foundation template
- a copy of the organisation’s registration certificate (Check the official link for details)
- a copy of the organisation’s most recent audited accounts (it must include both the accounts and the opinion of the external auditor who has certified them; it should not be older than December 2017) (Check the official link for details)
- a copy of the registration certificate for all partner organisations
- Australia, Canada & New Zealand are eligible to apply but project activities must be implemented in eligible countries in this list that do not have asterisks beside them.
Eligible Regions: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Canada*, Cyprus, Eswatini, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, New Zealand*, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles (Please check the official link for further details)
