Are you a previous Voice Empowerment grantee?

Do you still see room for growth or continuation of your empowerment journey beyond your recently completed project?

Do you want to further work on your leadership and/or increase your and community’s confidence to work towards full social inclusion of people affected by stigma, marginalisation, and/or discrimination?

If you answered “yes” to the questions above, then consider applying to this call! It is an opportunity to either expand, deepen, challenge or bring yourselves another step further in your own empowerment processes.

Voice believes that when people are empowered, their self-esteem is higher. When people arehappier they will be more eager to come together, to understand (each)other, and to want to share their own lived experiences and lives. We want to support communities to find their own innate strength, raise their voices, and take actions to push for social change and inclusion.

The Voice Empowerment Accelerator grants are ‘graduation’ grants meant for rightsholder-led groups to continue and/or strengthen transformative leadership skills, to build (collective and individual) confidence and skills, forge alliances with other like-minded individuals and/or organisations to address cross-cutting obstacles, and work collectively against the exclusion of marginalised and discriminated groups.

Funding available is a minimum of €25, 000 -€50, 000 and the lifetime of the projects under this grant should be for at least 18 and maximum 36 months.

• Improved access to (productive) resources such as land, and employment,
• Improved access to social services, particularly health and education, and
• Fostering space for political participation and citizen engagement

• Build self-confidence of all women (young, old, disabled, indigenous) to change social relationships and the institutions, and to enhance their ability to voice at national and/or county governments accountable;
• Build, and/or strengthen networks of marginalised groups to improve their skills, knowledge and self-perception;
• Raise (self)awareness among the marginalised groups about their own rights and sharpen-up strategies for demanding them, for example, engaging in advocacy with stakeholders and power brokers who exercise varying degrees of control over the group;
• Interventions that boost individual and/or groups economic status, such as promote women’s household bargaining power, youth access to employment opportunities, etc.;
• Strengthening the collective political voice of all women movements to improve access to productive resources such as finance, water and land;
• Civic education and public awareness campaigns to change attitudes influenced by outdated or discriminatory cultural practices within development programmes and service delivery;
• Interventions that enable persons with disabilities to live independently and participating in all aspects of life and eliminating obstacles and barriers to accessibility.

Still in need of more inspiration or ideas? We invite you to take a look at the different Empowerment project supported by Voice via our Grantee page.

Where do we wish to fund?

This Call for Proposals is closed and no longer accepting applications. Come back here at a later stage to learn about the grantee that has been selected in this Call for Proposals.

The current open Calls for Proposals can be found here.