Charities Aid Foundation (CAF): Advocacy for Development (A4D) fund
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Overview
Goals
CAF A4D will support advocacy efforts in Europe across a broad range of global development issues (with a primary focus on health and agriculture) that aim to:
- Secure more and better resources for global development issues
- Raise public awareness about global development issues and efforts
- Improve communications across the global development community
- Create an enabling policy environment for development in donor countries and global forums
Objectives
- Timely and responsive support, sensitive to funding opportunities as they arise, so that projects achieve their potential for social impact (including increased awareness, funding, engagement and/or understanding).
- Generate additional and necessary financial assistance to support some of the most pressing global opportunities around the priority area.
- Increase action and the sense of urgency at grassroot and institutional levels, from awareness raising to high level policy changes.
- Demonstrable impact against the overarching CAF Advocacy for Development (A4D) Fund aims and objectives shall take priority - most notably in relation to global health and agriculture.
Eligibility criteria
- The Advocacy for Development (A4D) Fund will make grants to projects that aim to make a demonstrable difference to development issues globally in line with the objectives and goals above.
- Most projects will require a start date within the next three months.
- Projects will not normally last for more than one year.
- Grants will range in size from £20,000 and £50,000 sterling, with an average grant size of £35,000.
- In exceptional circumstances grants of up to £100,000 may be awarded to projects lasting up to two years. These applications will be considerably more competitive.
- All organisations/projects must be charitable under UK law as determined by CAF’s validation processes. All non UK registered charities must successfully complete this process to receive a grant.
For more information see the website.
You can contact them on https://www.cafonline.org/about-us/our-grant-programmes/contact-us or telephone 03000 123 334