This Call for Proposals is ONLY open for current or past Voice Empowerment Grantees in Indonesia

Are you a current or previous Voice Empowerment grantee in Indonesia?

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

Do you want to further work on your leadership and/or increase your and the 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 expand, deepen, challenge or take you to step further in your own empowerment processes.

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

The Voice Empowerment Accelerator grants are ‘graduation’ grants. They are 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.

The funding available is up to €50,000. The lifetime of the projects under this grant should be between at least 18 to 33 months maximum.

What do we wish to fund?

Proposals with “out of the box” project ideas that promote learning and focus on underrepresented groups within the following Voice rightsholder groups; 

• Vulnerable youth and elderly
• Indigenous groups and ethnic minorities
• Persons with disabilities
• Women facing exploitation, abuse, and/or violence

Voice has a strong preference for projects that are designed from an intersectional point of view. This means projects should aim to work with more than one of the above groups to address overlapping vulnerabilities and/or forms of discrimination.

All projects MUST focus on at least one or all of the following impact themes:

• 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

Project activities may include and not limited to the following;-

• 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 participate in all aspects of life, eliminating obstacles and barriers to accessibility.

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

Who do we wish to fund?

Existing empowerment grantees can only apply with a project that will start after their current Voice-funded project ends. Voice encourages graduation but can only have one contract at a time with a (lead) organisation.

Small (informal) organisations that are not yet registered should identify a fiscal host from the same area (geographical) of implementation. We are open to cover costs relating to registration in efforts to further strengthen the group/organisation.

Where do we wish to fund?

Voice in Indonesia will only fund projects that will be implemented in DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, DI Yogyakarta, East Java, NTB, NTT, South Sulawesi and North Sumatra.

We will prioritise organisations which are based in their intervention area or close to their roots.

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.