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Funding

The GPSA offers programmatic financial support (grants) to CSOs for programmatic activities related to social accountability, including activities supporting the enabling environment for social accountability and efforts to improve development effectiveness through social accountability approaches. Grants are also intended to support the institutional development of CSOs working on social accountability, and for knowledge generation and dissemination activities. Grants may include mentoring, knowledge and capacity building activities. Our support focuses on initiatives at the country level led by individual CSOs and multi-stakeholder coalitions. In addition, select grants are aimed at the regional and global levels and will primarily focus on knowledge-exchange, networking and learning support activities.

Civil society organizations can apply for GPSA grants through a competitive process, the Calls for Proposals. Indicatively, grant amounts are between $500,000 and $1 million; however, the Steering Committee in its deliberation on grant allocations, may also decide to allocate smaller grants. In response to the need for more predictable funding that can sustain CSOs’ efforts over longer periods of time, grants are made for periods of 3 to 5 years. Disbursements are made in tranches that are linked to agreed project milestones.

 

For the purposes of the GPSA, CSOs that can apply include legal entities that fall outside the public or for-profit sector, such as NGOs, not-for-profit media organizations, charitable organizations, faith-based organizations, professional organizations, labor unions, associations of elected local representatives, foundations, and policy development and research institutes.

 

Grant Making Process

Civil society organizations can apply for GPSA grants through a competitive process, the Calls for Proposals. Indicatively, grant amounts are between $500,000 and $1 million; however, the Steering Committee in its deliberation on grant allocations, may also decide to allocate smaller grants. In response to the need for more predictable funding that can sustain CSOs’ efforts over longer periods of time, grants are made for periods of 3 to 5 years. Disbursements are made in tranches that are linked to agreed project milestones.

 

In opted-in countries, prior to issuing a Call for Proposals a consultative process with stakeholders including government, civil society and other donor agencies, is organized to define the key governance issues (thematic areas) per country that CSO proposals should address. This country-tailored, ‘problem-solving’ approach maximizes the alignment of GPSA activities with the development strategies of countries. Read More…

 

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