[CivilSoc] Grants Announcement: call for applications

[Gillian Bell]

We would be grateful if you could include the information below in the
next edition of your email journal.  Please do contact me if you have
any queries.
Thanks,
Gillian
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Gillian Bell
Programme Officer
Allavida
gillianb@allavida.org
Tel: +44 (0)20 7400 2305
Fax: +44 (0)20 7404 1331
http://www.allavida.org
Charity Know How (CKH) Grants Programme 2002
The Charity Know How (CKH) Grants Programme - now run by Allavida - is
being re-launched for 2002.  The CKH programme provides small grants (up
to �15,000) for cross-border skill-sharing partnerships between
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) based in Central and Eastern
Europe and the Newly Independent States.  Projects should contain a
significant element of transfer of know-how, and can include training
programmes for NGO staff and volunteers, professional advice and study
visits.  In addition to the General Programme, there are two new
schemes: Global Grants which encourages links between organisations in
this region and Asia, Africa or Latin America, and Partnership
Development Grants which aims to develop longer-term sustainable NGO
partnerships
The CKH programme cannot fund applications from individuals, the
teaching of English as a foreign language or other student programmes,
any building or capital costs, the costs of transporting humanitarian
aid or medical equipment, core costs such as office rent or equipment,
and artistic or cultural exchanges. 
There will be just two grants rounds in 2002, with deadlines of 26
February and 27 August.  
Certain priorities have been identified, including: 
�	Cross-border partnerships within the following sub-regions
(Balkans and Carpathians; Caucasus; Central Asia; Western CIS).  
�	Partnerships where skills and 'know-how' are transferred from
larger, more experienced NGOs to smaller, grass-roots, community-based
organisations, which would otherwise have limited access to funding.  
�	Partnerships under the 'Global Grants Programme' involving
organisations from two or more of the regions identified (CEE/FSU;
Africa; Asia; Latin America).  Beneficiary NGOs should look in
particular for partners who can offer tools, techniques and
methodologies which would be difficult to find within the beneficiaries'
own broad region, or who can offer a different focus or approach to
problems.
�	Sustainable partnerships, which involve a longer-term engagement
between the organisations, rather than a short-term partnership which
exists for the terms of the project only.  
Further information, copies of the application form and guidelines are
all available from our website at www.allavida.org  or by email from
enquiries@allavida.org