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WOMEN & GIRLS WITH DISABILITIES
PRESS
RELEASE
Disability Rights Fund Releases First 2012
Request for Proposals:
Addressing India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico, and Ukraine
February 9, 2012
Contact: Diana
Samarasan, Director
Telephone:
+1-617-261-4593
Email: dsamarasan@disabilityrightsfund.org
BOSTON,
MA –
The Disability Rights Fund (DRF)—a grantmaking collaborative between donors and
the global disability community which supports the human rights of persons with
disabilities—today announced its first 2012 grants round, “Implementing Our
Rights.” Grantmaking in this round will be targeted to disabled persons’
organizations (DPOs) in India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico, and Ukraine.
The broad objective
of the Fund—which was officially launched in March 2008—is to empower DPOs in
the developing world, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe/former Soviet Union
to participate in ratification, implementation and monitoring of the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD).
In the first round
of 2012 grantmaking, applicant organizations from Indonesia, Lebanon and
Mexico may apply for grants. Organizations from India and Ukraine may apply by
invitation only. Applicant organizations from eligible countries may apply as:
a) single organizations or partnerships for 12-month Small Grants and/or b)
national DPO-led coalitions for 24-month National Coalition Grants. Grants to single organizations will range
from USD 5,000 to 20,000 and will support efforts to build CRPD skills and to
develop rights-based advocacy and monitoring on the CRPD. Grants to national DPO-led coalitions will
range from USD 30,000 to 50,000 per year (60,000 – 100,000 over 24 months) and
will support advocacy toward ratification of the CRPD, passage of specific
legislation to accord with the CRPD, or the production of alternative/parallel
reports to UN monitoring mechanisms.
Interested organizations are urged to review
the full eligibility criteria and application details posted at the Fund’s
website, http://www.disabilityrightsfund.org/grantmaking. Any questions on the proposal process should
be directed to info@disabilityrightsfund.org. The deadline
for applications is March 15, 2012.
In 2011, the Fund made 111 grants to
organizations in 18 countries (Bangladesh, Cook Islands, Federated States of
Micronesia, Fiji, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Lebanon, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Solomon Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, and
Vanuatu), totaling USD 2,046,895. Grants ranged from USD 5000 - 100,000 and
supported CRPD skills-building, local rights advocacy, and national-level CRPD
promotion, implementation and monitoring by DPO-led coalitions.
DRF’s donors include the Australian Agency for International
Development (AusAID), the Open Society Foundations, The Sigrid Rausing Trust,
and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID).
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