Core Grants for civil society organizations in the MENA Region

Description

1) Objective

Minority Rights Group is accepting applications from human rights and minority rights/minority groups led civil society and nonprofit organizations based in Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco and Palestine for core grants. These grants are available for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) that want to invest in their organizational development, organizational infrastructures or to effectively develop their institutional capacity.

As part of their programme Minorities, Accountability and Civic Space (MACS), the core grants aim to enable grassroots organizations to improve the organizational infrastructure of organizations to allow them to operate efficiently and hence allow them to advance their work in democracy and human rights.

2) Eligibility

For your application to be considered, the applicant must meet the following requirements: (1) Be a human rights or minority rights organization; (2) Be a not-for-profit civil society organization (official registration is not necessary); (3) Be based in one of the project countries: Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia; (4) Have recently experienced an elevated or imminent security threat.

3) Location

Actions must take place in Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia.

4) Budget

Each grant awarded will be €11,000, and all selected projects are required to operate within this fixed budget. The duration of the grant will be 12 months.

5) Application

Organisations wishing to apply for these grants should submit an application form and a budget, using the form on this webpage. You can apply in English, Arabic or French. For any enquiries, please click here to email the MACS team. The deadline is 4 May 2025.