Peace Child International seeks youth led sustainable entrepreneurship projects

August 29th, 2012

Peace Child International is currently seeking youth led sustainable entrepreneurship projects for a publication to be launched in New York in November 2012.

The best contribution will include an innovative business idea, it will showcase best practice of green entrepreneurship, how skills are being taught, and will provide examples on how youth are involved in job creation and the move towards the Green Economy. The winner will win a trip to New York City and will be part of GEEBIZ’s Global Entrepreneurship Week’s events.

If you are between 18-30 yrs of age, have started a Green Business in the last two years, or have developed an innovative Green Business Plan that you feel ready to promote to an international audience.

Deadline: Friday, September 7th, 2012

For further information, visit the link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/awards-and-prizes/peace-child-international-seeks-youth-led-sustainable-entrepreneurship-projects/#ixzz250sbPRzf

Residential Fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

August 30th, 2012

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Johns Hopkins University is accepting applications for the 9-month residential fellowships. Scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals are invited to take part in this flagship international Fellowship program.

Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and Wilson Center staff and other scholars in residence. The Center accepts policy-relevant, non-advocacy fellowship proposals that address key challenges confronting the United States and the world.

Eligibility includes, but not limited to:

• Men and women with outstanding capabilities and experience from a wide variety of backgrounds (including government, business, academia, and other professions)
• Academic candidates holding a Ph.D.
• Academic candidates demonstrating scholarly achievement by publications beyond their doctoral dissertations

The proposed fellowship should focus on one of the Center’s program areas. Some of the programs include:

• China Environment Forum
• Comparative Urban Studies Project
• Environmental Change and Security
• Global Health Initiative
• Science and Technology Innovation Program

Fellows in residence will be affiliated with one or more of the Center’s programs/projects/offices. Program, project and/or office directors often collaborate with scholars in designing seminars, conferences, and/or meetings related to scholars’ research.

Fellows are expected to be in residence for the entire U.S. academic year (early September through May). Occasionally, fellowships are awarded for shorter periods, with a minimum of four months.

Application deadline: October 1, 2012

For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/fellowships-2/residential-fellowships-woodrow-wilson-international-center-scholars/#ixzz250ppOFgP

Women Journalists Sought for International Health Reporting Network

The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) in Washington, D.C., is inviting senior-level women journalists from developing countries to apply to its Women’s Edition program.

Up to 15 women journalists from the print, electronic, and broadcast media will be selected to become part of this international network of leading editors, reporters, and producers interested in women’s health and development.

Through seminars and study tours, the project provides the journalists with the latest information on reproductive health and development issues, including family planning and safe motherhood, so they can better cover these topics.

Participants will attend seminars and study tours around the world. PRB covers travel and other seminar-related expenses. Journalists may write or broadcast in any language, but they must be able to communicate comfortably and effectively in English.

The deadline for applications is September 5, 2012. Participants are selected on a competitive basis.

For more information about the program, requirements for applying, and the application form, click here.


http://ijnet.org/node/129628

Kellogg Institute’s Fellowships in Democracy and Human Development

August 28th, 2012

The Kellogg Institute for International Studies is offering visiting fellowships to promote interdisciplinary international research in a supportive community of scholars.

This widely respected residential program offers you time to pursue scholarly inquiry where it takes you, advance your personal research, and collaborate with other scholars and practitioners from across the US and around the globe.

Applications are invited from scholars and practitioners who conduct international research on our themes of democracy and/or human development.  Applicants may come from any country and typically fall into three groups:

• Promising junior and midcareer scholars (typically postdocs and assistant or associate professors)
• Distinguished senior scholars with an established record of scholarly excellence
• Accomplished policy makers, journalists, and other practioners whose knowledge and experience can link policy and scholarship

While at the Kellogg Institute, you interact with leading scholars one-on-one and through the Institute’s seminars and lectures, international conferences, roundtable discussions on world affairs, and cultural events.

The facilities at the Hesburgh Center are ideal for scholarly research.  Visiting fellows have spacious offices, on-site information technology support, personal library services through a branch of the University’s library, and use of a variety of campus facilities.

Visiting Fellowships include:

• Stipend
• Travel expenses
• Medical insurance benefits
• Partial housing subsidy for the Hesburgh Center Residences or other on-campus housing

Up to $1,500 of conference travel support for recipients of one and two-year fellowships

Complete applications must be received by Thursday, November 1, 2012.

For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/democracy-2/kellogg-institutes-fellowships-democracy-human-development/#ixzz24pDSQYsF

The Aftermath Project 2013 Grants now open for applications

August 28th, 2012

The Aftermath Project is a nonprofit organization committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues forpeace. The organization is now accepting applications for its 2013 grant program.

The Aftermath Project seeks to support stories which are no longer being covered by the mainstream media, or which have been ignored by the media. In general, conflict should be over for a situation to be deemed an “aftermath.” There are specific cases, however, where conflict may have continued for so long, or be the result of an aftermath situation, that they will be considered to be within the scope of The Aftermath Project.

If you have doubts about whether your proposal meets these guidelines, please contact the email address below.

Proposals should include an explanation of the specific aftermath issues related to the project being proposed, as well as an overview of the applicant’s plans for covering the story during the course of the grant year — i.e, the proposed timing of trips, etc. You MUST inform The Aftermath Project if you have any commercial commitments or contracts related to the project you are proposing, including book deals and exhibitions. Failure to do so on the part of a grant winner will automatically terminate the grant, and the winner will forfeit any funds he/she has not yet received from The Aftermath Project.

ELIGIBILITY:

1. The Aftermath Project is open to working photographers world-wide who are interested in creating work that helps illuminate aftermath issues, and encourages greater public understanding and discussion of these issues.
2. Employees and directors of The Aftermath Project, and their immediate families are NOT eligible to apply for funding. Advisory board members and their immediate families are NOT eligible to apply for funding. Grant application judges, and their immediate families, are NOT eligible to apply for funding in the year that judges help choose grantees.
3. Only those submissions including all required materials will be considered for entry

The deadline to submit applications is 5 November 2012. For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/latest-funds-for-ngos/aftermath-project-2013-grants-open-applications/#ixzz24pCZEmrI

International Human Rights Scholarship (HRS)

August 22nd, 2012

Deadline-31 October 2012

Countries/Region-All Countries

University of Melbourne invites application for the Human Rights Scholarship which is awarded to local or international applicants for graduate level studies and who are able to demonstrate their commitment to the peaceful advancement of respect for human rights.

Each year the University of Melbourne offers 2 HRSs to applicants wishing to undertake a graduate research degree at the University of Melbourne.

Human Rights Scholarship benefits include-

• living allowance of $28,000 per annum (2012 rate).
• Relocation Grant of $2,000 awarded to students who are moving from interstate in order to study at the University of Melbourne or $3,000 awarded to those who are moving from overseas.
• Thesis Allowance of up to $420 (2012 rate) for masters by research and up to $840 (2011 rate) for PhD and other doctorate by research candidates.
• Paid sick, maternity and parenting leave

How to Apply?

Local applicants-

Local applicants should visit ‘How to Apply (local)’ for application information.

International applicants-

• If applicants are an international applicant visit ‘How to apply (international)’ for application information. International students wishing to apply for the HRS must apply for admission (if not already currently enrolled in the course for which they seek an HRS).
• In addition all applicants (local and international) must complete and submit a HRS document coversheet, with the documents listed in website.

Eligibility-

• Applicants for the HRS must be able to demonstrate that their commitment to the peaceful advancement of respect for human rights extends beyond their academic studies (such as voluntary work and/or work experience).
• A high H2A (ie. 78-79% and above) is the minimum grade average usually required to be competitive for an HRS.
• Applicants must have applied for, or be currently enrolled in, a graduate research degree in the human rights field at the University of Melbourne.
• International students must have an unconditional course offer at the University of Melbourne for the course for which they seek the support of a HRS.
• Applicants seeking a HRS to undertake a graduate research degree must normally meet the academic requirements that apply to the Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) or Melbourne Research Scholarship (MRS).

HRSs are not awarded to applicants who:

• cannot provide evidence that their demonstrated commitment to human rights extends beyond their academic studies have already completed a course deemed to be at the same, or higher, level for which they are seeking scholarship support as a result of previous candidature and/or prior scholarship, have a maximum tenure of less than 12 months
• have previously received an MRS, Fay Marles Scholarship (FMS) or Postgraduate Equity Scholarship (PES), or
• have already been awarded or later receive another equivalent award, scholarship or salary for the studies for which they seek a HRS. An “equivalent” award is regarded as one greater than 75% of the base HRS rate (75% of the base 2011 HRS rate = $19,500).

For more information, visit this link

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/cambodia/international-human-rights-scholarship-hrs/#ixzz24LlyBrrQ

Asian Development Bank Institute’s DAJA Competition

August 23rd, 2012

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Institute has made a call for submissions for the 2012 Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) competition.  DAJA 2012 will focus on a critical question facing Asia and the Pacific: “Green Growth – or Growth versus Green?” Journalists from the developing countries of the Asia and the Pacific can submit articles.

DAJA 2012 will highlight the opportunities, challenges, and solutions being uncovered as Asia and the Pacific seek a path to sustainable growth. Journalists are invited to submit published articles that explore the interaction between populations and the environment across the region.

• Can economies maintain rapid growth without damaging the environment?
• How are the development decisions and actions of communities, cities, and countries affecting the environment?
• What are individuals, community leaders, business people, politicians, the judiciary, governments and others doing to improve the balance between man and nature?
• How will the promotion of Green Growth impact efforts to alleviate poverty?

Possible topic areas include issues such as climate change (droughts, flooding, sea-level rise, etc.); energy use/efficiency; renewable energy; water, waste, and forest management; sustainable transport; pollution; urban development; and others.

The deadline for submission of articles to DAJA 2012 is 31 August 2012. For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/awards-and-prizes/asian-development-bank-institutes-daja-competition/#ixzz24LlUjADK

Nominations for the Trust Women Award of the Trust Women Conference

August 17th, 2012

The Trust Women Award is part of the Trust Women Conference, a joint venture between Thomson Reuters Foundation and the International Herald Tribune, dedicated to forging real solutions to challenges faced by women worldwide.

Administered by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and judged by distinguished members of the Trust Women Advisory Board, the award seeks to celebrate an innovator whose bold thinking and high-impact work has helped women defend and advance their rights. Nominees will be judged on the groundbreaking nature of their work, its impact and scalability.

The winner will be acknowledged through Reuters and IHT channels, including a profile in the IHT, and will receive a cash prize of $5,000 to help further their work.

The closing date for entries is Monday, 8 October, 2012. Shortlisted nominees will be notified in late October. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, 4 December 2012 in London.

For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/awards-and-prizes/nominations-trust-women-award-trust-women-conference/#ixzz23mZ7dGak

Global Campaign for Climate Action’s ‘Adopt a Negotiator’ Fellowships

August 17th, 2012

‘Adopt a Negotiator’ (AaN), a project of the Global Campaign for Climate Action is offering a number of fellowships available for talented young people (ages 18 – 30) who are willing to actively contribute to Adopt a Negotiator between now and the end of the 2012, including attending the Doha Climate Change Conference this November.

The Global Campaign for Climate Action, an alliance of more than 350 non-profit organizations working to ensure a safe climate future for people and nature, to promote the low-carbon transition of our economies, and to accelerate the adaptation efforts in communities already affected by climate change by mobilizingcivil society and galvanizing public.

The Adopt a Negotiator project is awarding fellowships to exceptional young people that possess the ability to effectively push their country toward unlocking climate solutions nationally and internationally. The Fellows will have an opportunity to help shape their government’s role in solving climate change.

Applicants must be 18 to 30 years of age; be able to attend the Doha Climate Change Conference from November 23rd to December 9th; and able to actively contribute to the Adopt a Negotiator project as an activist and blogger from August to December of this year.

Applications received by the 22nd August will be privileged. For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/fellowships-2/global-campaign-climate-actions-adopt-negotiator-fellowships/#ixzz23mYq5sxI

2013 René Cassin Fellows Programme in international human rights

August 17th, 2012

The René Cassin Fellows Programme (RCFP) for the year 2013 is now open to accepting applications. RCFP provides young professionals with the knowledge, skills and contacts needed for a career in international human rights or related fields.

Beginning in January 2013, the year-long Fellowship Programme consists of monthly seminars with leading human rights lawyers, academics, politicians and religious leaders (10 in total) and culminates in an international delegation to the international human rights institutions in Strasbourg or Geneva.

Fellows are expected to participate in the majority of these meetings, and to produce a paper, presentation or project on a human rights topic of their choosing which may be selected for publication.

The RCFP is perfect for young professionals interested in increasing their knowledge of human rights and making important contacts in the international institutions that are responsible for protecting them, and who can also demonstrate academic and professional success.

The deadline to apply is 30 September 2012. For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/fellowships-2/2013-ren-cassin-fellows-programme-international-human-rights/#ixzz23mYN8jOZ

SAFMA calls for free movement of people, goods and information

Speakers at a seminar called on India and Pakistan to lift barriers to the free movement of people, goods and information, revive traditional trade routes and form a South Asian Tourism Union. Historian Dr Ayesha Jalal, economist Dr Akmal Hussain, human rights campaigner I.A Rehman, SAFMA India General Secretary Satish Jacob, Indian journalist Seema Mustafa and South Asian Women in Media president Pamela Philipose spoke at the seminar arranged by South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) in partnership with Hind-Pak Dosti Manch. Delegates from India and Pakistan attended the seminar named “In Pursuit of Shared Destiny in the Sub-continent” as a part of the Independence Day celebrations. SAFMA Secretary General Imtiaz Alam said improvement in relations would help India and Pakistan overcome issues of poverty, hunger, energy and backwardness. He spoke about how trade, tourism and free movement of people across borders between the two countries could create a great economic uplift in the region. “Let possibilities be explored to get South Asia emerge as a tourism union. This will strengthen social, economic and political bond amongst the people of this region,” Alam said.  “Extremism is a great threat to Pakistan, India and Afghanistan and only through unified efforts we could eliminate it,” he said.  SAFMA had been advocating ‘liberal’ visa regime in the sub-continent to encourage people to people contact for long lasting peace and understanding. Alam demanded that journalists, artists, writers, doctors, lawyers and other professionals should be granted a similar visa as being given to businesspersons.  Historian Dr Ayesha Jalal wished the Indian delegation a happy Independence Day. She shared her views about the 1947 partition and what the aftermath of the division caused in the South Asian region.  Taking a critical stance on the paradigms of nation and national sovereignty, she emphasized the need for making the notions of sovereignty adjustable to change and subservient to the aspirations of the people.  She said India and Pakistan have lost a lot by not being open minded and reaching an understanding about their important issues, especially the Kashmir one. Dr Jalal said both the nations should try their best to achieve some type of long term, progressive understanding which would help all future generations of South Asia. She ended her speech by saying that if Pakistan and India did not want to be swept away by the West’s ‘New World Order’ ambitions, they must start building bridges between their nations. Economist Dr Akmal Hussain said both the nations, by objectively re-examining the past and by reconstructing the present ideas about each other, can improve the chances for a better future of the region. “South Asia is at a conjunctional shift. If proper and foresighted decisions are made and implemented, Pakistan, India, along with China will become a global economic power.  He warned about the impending global warming crises, saying that South Asia is the most vulnerable region to the consequences of climate change.  Dr Hussain, quoting reports of intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) in his address, said South Asia with its heavy reliance on monsoons, its critical dependence on agriculture and persistent mass poverty is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change.  “Managing population dislocation, natural disasters, instability of water supply and food shortages resulting from climate change, will require a high degree of interstate cooperation in South Asia. The integrated ecology of South Asia, its mountains, rivers, forests and top soils constitute the basis of sustaining its economy and social life. Cooperation, not the conflict, is the key to building a better future for South Asia,” he said. Dr Hussain said that all countries in the region, especially Pakistan and India, must work together to fight away the imminent environment catastrophe. “The floods in Sindh and drought in Balochistan are examples of the impending crisis. South Asia is facing a severe water stress crisis, which can only be resolved through cooperation between the two countries. If not, this crisis would affect one billion people in the region.”  He said sovereignty could not be seen as an abstract ego controlled by the government and bureaucracy.  Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Director I.A Rehman said India and Pakistan shared a lot of problems such as illiteracy, poverty, corruption and even extremism. He said hopes for the region’s shared destiny had been kept alive in 1985’s Non-Alignment Movement charter. He said the biggest problem for peaceful ties between the two nations had been nationalism and egotism, which created even more divisions among the people than before.  Rehman said that a sustained and progressive dialogue was greatly needed to resolve all important problems and issues in the region. “Nothing would be achieved if we continue to stick to our decades long nationalistic, stubborn positions.”

Indians, Pakistanis light peace candles at border

Journalists, political leaders and peace activists from Pakistan and India assembled at the Wagha-Attari border on August 14-15 midnight to pay homage to the martyrs of the freedom movement, lit candles in their memory and vowed to promote peace. Journalists, political leaders and peace activists from Pakistan and India assembled at the Wagha-Attari border on August 14-15 midnight to pay homage to the martyrs of the freedom movement, lit candles in their memory and vowed to promote peace and friendship between the two countries.  South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), in collaboration with the Hind-Pak Dosti Manch, organized the candle vigil to express the aspirations of the people of Pakistan and India for good relations between the two neighbouring countries. The annual ritual is carried out to mark Pakistan’s creation day (August 14) and India’s Independence Day (August 15).  Hundreds of people on both sides of the international border shouted for peace lending their voice to the demand for friendship. In a unique show of solidarity and friendship, they exchanged flowers, bouquets and candles across the zero line of the border raising slogans, “Shuhadai Azadi ko Salam” [Tributes to the martyrs of freedom movement], “Lay kay di azadi, Quaid-i-Azam tera ehsan” [We are indebted to Quaid-e-Azam for Independence], "Long live India-Pakistan dosti [friendship], “Jang nahin Amn, dehshat nahin baat cheet” [Peace not War, Talks not Terror]."  Addressing peacenicks on the Wagha [Pakistan] side of the border, SAFMA Secretary General Imtiaz Alam called on the governments of Pakistan and India for establishing a peace park on the zero line in memory of those who sacrificed their lives for freedom from the colonial rule.  He appealed to Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to relax the visa regime for free movement of people, especially journalists, peace activists, artists, writers, doctors, lawyers and other professionals, across border.  SAFMA India General Secretary Satish Jacob, who is leading a 27-member contingent from India comprising journalists and peace activists, showed solidarity with the people of Pakistan and assured them that SAFMA’s India Chapter would make best efforts for a peaceful subcontinent.  On the Attari [Indian] side of the border, people from all walks of life, led by SAFMA India joint secretary Satnam Singh Manak and Hind-Pak Dosti Manch leader Ramesh Yadav raised slogans paying tributes to the freedom martyrs and condemning elements that wanted to scuttle the peace process.  They said they were trying to strengthen people-to-people relations and endorsed the SAFMA Secretary General Imtiaz Alam’s demand for a peace park at the Wagha-Attari border.  Leading journalists, civil society members and politicians including Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Member of National Assembly Tehmina Daultana, Pakistan Peoples Party member of the Punjab Assembly, Editor-in-Chief of Daily Jinnah took part in the vigil from the Attari side. Former law minister S M Masood, PML-N leader Pervez Malik, veteran columnist Munnoo Bhai and human rights campaigner I A Rehman, Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl leader Riaz Durrani and Pakistan Ulema Council’s Chairman Allama Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi were prominent among those participated in the event from the Wagha side of the border.  Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop featured in the event with their puppets that amused the people.

Applications invited for the Global Youth Forum-Bali, Indonesia

August 15th, 2012

Deadline- 15th September 2012

Countries/Region- All Countries

Applications are invited for Global Youth Forum at Bali, Indonesia which will be held on 4th-6th of December.The ICPD Beyond 2014 Global Youth Forum aims to address these questions and represents the peak of efforts by UN agencies, young people and civil society to translate the participatory aspirations of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) into a sustainable youth advocacy network. Specifically, it seeks to tackle emerging issues and priorities for young people globally and ensure that these issues are central to the outcomes of the ICPD review process.

The Global Youth Forum is being delivered in full partnership with youth advocates and will bring together all stakeholders to make recommendations that will influence the global development agenda for the next 20 years.

Eligibility & Criteria-

• A leader, or emerging leader, currently working at national level in an area that contributes to ICPD Programme of Action?
• working in a paid or voluntary capacity for a civil society organisation engaged in policy development at national and local levels?
• working in a paid or voluntary capacity for organisations that have a demonstrable national and/or international reach and mandate
• Able to demonstrate outstanding youth advocacy and networking capabilities with experience high level of achievement in these areas across a wide variety of environment
• Below the age of 30
• leadership experience
• innovation in the arena of policy development and application
• desire to contribute to and improve the leadership potential of the civil society sector
• willingness to learn
• eagerness to lead debate and discussions during the Global Youth Forum
• commitment to follow-up activities.

Important Note-

All participants must have a valid passport with a minimum of 1 year until expiry. While applicants under the age of 30 will be considered, particularly encourage young people between the ages of 18 and 24 to apply.

For more information, visit this link

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/conferences/call-applications-invited-global-youth-forumbali-indonesia/#ixzz23bMjhUEG

CRR-CLS Fellowship: Reproductive Health and Human Rights

August 14th, 2012

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) used law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill. It has currently announced an exciting academic fellowship opportunity for recent law school graduates who are interested in careers in law teaching.

The Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School (CRR-CLS) Fellowship is a two-year, post-graduate fellowship offered by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School.

The Fellowship is designed to prepare recent law school graduates for legal academic careers in reproductive health and human rights. Fellows will be affiliated with the Center and the Law School and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs. Applicants do not need to be graduates of Columbia Law School to be eligible for this program.

The deadline to submit applications is 29 October 2012. For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/fellowships-2/crrcls-fellowship-reproductive-health-human-rights/#ixzz23VO4FqfX

Grant funds investigative journalism

Fund for Investigative Journalism

Investigative journalists can apply for a reporting grant.

The Fund for Investigative Journalism seeks grant proposals that break new ground and expose wrongdoing.

Projects related to government accountability and environmental issues in the United States, local or regional stories with national implications and applications from ethnic media are strongly encouraged.

Grants average US$5,000 and the maximum grant is US$10,000. The grant supports the costs of reporting, such as travel and document production expenses. A small stipend will be considered as part of the overall award.

All proposals must be submitted in English and include a detailed budget.

The application deadline is September 28.

For more information, click here.

http://ijnet.org/opportunities/grant-funds-investigative-journalism

Asia Social Innovation Award 2012

August 10th, 2012

Asia Social Innovation Award 2012 aims to groom social entrepreneurship in Asia using innovation as the key. The social issues in urban areas in Asia are highly crucial and serious. As a result, it is the appropriate time to think about social innovation ideas together and share experience along the road.

Asia Social Innovation Award 2012 initiates the discussion by promoting social innovation for a sustainable development of social innovation culture in the region. The Asia Social Innovation Award believe that the urban social challenges in many Asian cities are quite alike, these pressing problems need to be solved immediately and whenever the traditional model does not satisfy the needs of the society, innovations are demanded.

“Social Enterprise” has become a hot topic in recent years. However, people tend to focus their discussion on the entity itself, instead of the more powerful concept behind that leads to ultimate social change – “Social Innovation”, which is also relatively weak in Asia, creating a big barrier for social entrepreneurship to groom in the region.

However, from a worldwide perspective, social enterprises have undeniably brought great positive impact worldwide. For instance, social enterprise accounts for 1% of the GDP in UK. In fact, social enterprises contribute tremendously in creating a culture of social innovation among communities. In order to promote the culture of social innovation and enrich people’s knowledge on social issues, and to build a platform to encourage the sharing of ideas and experience among Asian cities, the Asia Social Innovation Award has been born since 2008, hoping to pathway for a sustainable development of social innovation culture in the region.

The Award will be the first innovative social enterprise event in Asia to apply a simple and easy mechanism to engage the general public to participate in the discussion and to deliver positive and concrete innovative solutions to tackle these problems.  This simple idea-generatingcompetition calling for level-zero social innovation ideas will be able to attract the general public to take part. So, it’s now time for us to brainstorm some creative ideas which can bring about a social revolution.

Deadline:

Other Asian Cities: On or before 7th October, 2012 (Sunday) at 23:59pm (Hong Kong time)
Hong Kong: On or before 14th October, 2012 (Sunday) at 23:59pm (Hong Kong time)

For further information, visit the link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/asia/asia-social-innovation-award-2012/#ixzz23PEkK4AS

Join Now! ‘Show Me Inclusion’ contest for Youths

Deadline- 16th September 2012

Countries/Region- All Countries

“END EXCLUSION- Let’s Enable the Millennium Development Goals” is a three year awareness raising project funded by the European Union which organises “Show Me Inclusion” contest so that idea can show people with disabilities are the same as other people.

Through this project persons with disabilities are included in programmes designed to reduce poverty, which is often not the case.

It is important to work towards more inclusive societies and think young people are the main driving force of change. That’s why this project gives them the opportunity to stand up both for inclusion and for the eradication of poverty.

Eligibility-

• Only the ideas given in through the Show me Inclusion submission system will be accepted and eligible.
• Group submissions are also allowed.
• Applicant can submit more than one idea.
• Please make sure applicant fill in all the information in the submission form, including their contact details and a written description of the idea. This will ensure their idea is also accessible for blind people.
• Submissions are accepted in these languages: English, German, Dutch, Slovak and Czech. Any entry in another language should be translated into English in the description box of the submission form.
• Submissions can be made in the following forms: video, audio, sketchbook, photo book, or story book. The planned spot should be no longer than 2 minutes.
• Only the following formats will be accepted: jpg, png, gif, mpeg4, avi, wmv, mov, flv, mp3, wav, wma, pdf, ppt, pptx, doc, docx.
• Make sure the file is smaller than 500MB or it will be rejected.

The idea should relate to one of the following topics:

1. The inclusion of persons with disabilities in everyday life/importance of inclusion
2. The potential of persons with disabilities
3. The rights of persons with disabilities
4. The inclusion of persons with disabilities in the fight to end poverty.

• All submissions should be respectful and in line with the Youtube Community guidelines  (even if you are not submitting a video-entry). Amongst other things, the content should not be hurtful or sexually explicit and should not show bad stuff, real life violence, invasion of privacy or gross images. Hate speech (in which one group in society is attacked) is not permitted.
• All submissions should be suitable to be viewed by an audience of 12 years old and over.
• The winning spot will be shown all over the world! That’s why submissions should be understandable by someone sitting in Prague, Buenos Aires, Ouagadougou or Shanghai. Avoid cultural references that will only be understood in their country. Dialogue/text is allowed, but this should be kept to a minimum and written in the description box of the submission form.
• End Exclusion gets full rights to the entries applicant submit: we can do whatever they want to the videos they send us including adding our logo to them.

Important points regarding Copyright, Ownership and Responsibility-

• Applicant must possess the copyright of the material they are using: this means applicant have created it by themselves or have an official permission to use it. Applicants submission should be their own, original work.
• a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the content, including adding the End Exclusion logo to it.

For  more information, visit this link

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/cambodia/join-show-inclusion-contest-youths/#ixzz23PDjVbJz

Fung Global Fellows Program 2013-2014

August 9th, 2012

The Princeton University’s Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies is accepting applications for the Fung Global Fellows Program.

The brings exceptional international early-career faculty members working in the social sciences and the humanities to Princeton for a year of research, writing, and collaboration

The Program will select six scholars from around the world to be in residence at Princeton for one academic year and to engage in research, writing, and collaboration around a common theme. The program includes a public seminar series where the fellows will present their work to the University community. Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive application process to scholars employed outside the United States who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement, exhibit unusual intellectual promise, and are still early in their careers.

This program is supported by a gift from William Fung, group chairman of Li & Fung, a Hong Kong-based multinational group of export and retailing companies.

The Fung Global Fellows Program welcomes applications from scholars who have received their Ph.D. (or the equivalent of an Anglo-American Ph.D.) within 10 years of the proposed start date of the fellowship.

The application deadline for the 2013–14 Fung Global Fellows Program is November 1, 2012. For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/fellowships-2/fung-global-fellows-program-20132014/#ixzz231SYsQqb

Biodiversity International’s 2013 Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship Call is now open

August 9th, 2012

Biodiversity International has announced the availability of two fellowships, fo up to US $20,000 each, to carry out research, from 3 to 12 months, on a wide range of biophysical, economic and social themes related to the conservation and use of plant genetic resources in developing countries.

This year’s Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships call focuses on the following themes:

• Use of agrobiodiversity as an instrument for climate change adaptation
• Research to enhance the conservation of genetic resources of a tree species important to the livelihoods of the rural poor
• Sustainable diets for improved nutrition and health
• Policy research in support of implementation of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
• Gene discovery in crop wild relatives
• Facilitating better use of genebank materials
• Researching neglected and underutilized species for food and nutrition security
• Applying economics to agrobiodiversity conservation, sustainable use and policy analysis
• Management of Musa diseases through a better understanding of specific host-pathogen interactions and co-evolution

The deadline to submit applications is 11 November 2012. For more information, visit this link.

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/fellowships-2/biodiversity-internationals-2013-vavilovfrankel-fellowship-call-open/#ixzz231SASePd