Deadline: 4-Mar-23

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) invites civil society organizations (CSOs) to submit proposals for the Civil Society Program of the 56th ADB Annual Meeting in Incheon, Republic of Korea.

The Civil Society Program aligns with this year’s 56th ADB Annual Meeting’s theme and aims to reflect on ADB-CSO engagement in the past years, as well as envisioning the future of their collaboration in support of its Strategy 2030, ADB’s long-term corporate strategy. The strategy sets seven operational priorities (OPs) to contribute to ADB’s vision of achieving prosperity, inclusion, resilience, and sustainability in Asia and the Pacific.

Interested CSOs are requested to submit their draft proposal and session design using the templates provided in the form’s annexes, no longer than two pages, excluding attachments.

Theme: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will hold its 56th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors (AGM) in-person on 2-5 May 2023 in Incheon, Republic of Korea with the theme Rebounding Asia: Recover, Reconnect, Reform Incheon 2023.

Operational Priorities

• Strategy 2030 sets seven operational priorities, each having its own operational plan. The operational plans contribute to ADB’s vision to achieve prosperity, inclusion, resilience, and sustainability, and are closely aligned with Strategy 2030 principles and approaches.
• for a summary of the expected activities, outcomes, and new opportunities in the operational plans.
• Addressing remaining povertyand reducing inequalities
• Supports the Sustainable DevelopmentGoal agenda to tackle poverty and inequality and leave no one behind.
• Strategic Operational Priorities
• Human capital and social protection enhanced for all
• Quality jobs generated
• Access to opportunities increased for the most vulnerable
• Accelerating progress in gender equality
• Support for gender equality and women’s empowerment is also central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
• Strategic Operational Priorities
• Women’s economicempowerment increased
• Gender equality in human development enhanced
• Gender equality in decision-making and leadership enhanced
• Women’s time poverty and drudgery reduced
• Women’s resilience to external shocks strengthened
• Tackling climate change, building climate and disasterresilience, and enhancing environmental sustainability
• Thirteen of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are relevant to or will be impacted by actions on climate change, climate and disaster resilience, and the environment.
• Strategic Operational Priorities
• Mitigation of climate change increased
• Climate and disaster resilience built
• Environmental sustainability enhanced
• Making cities more livable
• Cities in Asia and the Pacific have unprecedented opportunities to transform the well-being of their citizens and to catalyze economic development through increased urbanization by 2030.
• Strategic Operational Priorities
• Improve access, quality and reliability of services in urban areas
• Strengthen urban planning and financial sustainability of cities
• Improve urban environment, climate-resilience and disaster management of cities
• Promoting rural development and food security
• Although significant progress has been made in meeting food security, in Asia and the Pacific, hunger and malnutrition persist.
• Strategic Operational Priorities
• Rural development enhanced
• Efficiency of agricultural value chains improved
• Food security increased
• Strengthening governanceand institutional capacity
• Governance and institutional reforms are needed to sustain development momentum in the region and to ensure that the benefits of growth are equitably and widely shared.
• Strategic Operational Priorities
• Strengthened public management and financial stability
• Enhanced governance and institutional capacity for service delivery
• Strengthened country systems and standards
• Fostering regional cooperation and integration
• Operations are expected to enhance connectivity and competitiveness, promote regional public goods, strengthen cooperation in the finance sector, and strengthen subregional initiatives.
• Strategic Operational Priorities
• Greater and higher quality connectivity between economies
• Global and regional trade and investment opportunities expanded
• Regional public goods increased and diversified.

Target participants

• CSOs, both operationally-focused and advocacy organizations, currently work with ADB across several areas, including:
  • stakeholder engagement throughout project design,
  • implementation of components of ADB-supported projects, particularly in the delivery of social services,
  • monitoring and evaluation, and
  • policy design and review, particularly in sectors and themes such as gender, safeguards, and others.
  • CSOs who also work with ADB through partnerships for knowledge generation and sharing, as well as in the review and updating of its institutional policies.

Eligibility Criteria 

• ADB members send a delegation of government officials to attend the meeting. These participants are decided by each member government.
• ADB welcomes the participation of accredited civil society organizations (CSOs) to its Annual Meetings.

Guide to Submitting Session Proposals

• CSOs should consider the following in designing their session:
  • Clarify link to any of the seven operational priorities and to this year’s theme;
  • Clarify focus on CSO perspectives on any of the seven operational priorities and this year’s theme, and recommendations for meaningful ADB-CSO engagement in any of these;
  • Establish quality and expertise of the panel of speakers;
  • Establish demonstrated capacity to deliver a high-quality session (e.g., confirmation of the panel of speakers, diversity in gender, age, and country);
  • Establish ability to draw from a wide number of Annual Meeting attendees and organizations;
  • The session may run for 60 minutes up to a maximum of 90 minutes. It can be organized solely by the proponent CSO or together with other organizations;
  • It is required that the session include at least one speaker under age 35 as part of the panel, to ensure voice and perspectives of the youthon the proposed topic;
  • It is encouraged that the session include a speaker from ADB as part of the panel. The proposal should identify a proposed management or staff member to be part of the panel. ADB will assist proponent organizations in identifying an appropriate member from ADB to serve as speaker for the panel.
  • The CSOs will prepare key highlights of the session within 48 hours after it is completed (maximum 320 words). The key highlights will form part of the overall 56th AM documentation of events.

For more information, visit Civil Society Program.

Deadline: 10-Mar-23

One Young World is inviting applications for its Lead 2030 Challenge to support Sustainable Development Goal 3 “Good Health and Well-being”.

They are looking for youth-led projects that are designed to be sustainable. Priority will be given to projects that are multi-sectoral and engage the public sector. Projects cannot incorporate treatment or medicine and must focus on prevention.

One Young World’s Lead2030 Challenge is looking for health promotion ideas and projects to reduce risk behaviours in young people, such as smoking tobacco, misuse of alcohol, the impact of air pollution, lack of physical exercise and poor diet. They want to support early innovation and will look in particular for projects that explore challenges and opportunities, generate ideas, develop and test ideas or make a business case. Through this project, they aim to generate case studies and other evidence of promising approaches and to uncover opportunities for future collaboration and investment.

Benefits

• The winning solution will receive:
  • A US$50,000 grantfrom AstraZeneca Young Health Programme
  • 12 months of mentorship from a team of AstraZeneca Young Health Programme professionals. The mentorship team will work to accelerate your solution based on the needs of your initiative or organisation, such as:
    • Business strategy
    • Best practices for data collection
    • Monitoring and evaluation
    • Product design
  • Participation in the One Young World Summit 2023 in Belfast. Flights and accomodation included.
  • The opportunity to join AstraZeneca’s Young Health Programme (YHP) Alumni Group. The YHP Alumni Group offers learning and development opportunities and networking between Grantees as well as young leaders who have received YHP Scholarships. In the past, Alumni Members have been offered mini-MBA programmes, opportunities to share their work with global audiences, and masterclasses on fundraising and digital skills to build effective health-promotion programmes.
  • Visibility and promotion by AstraZeneca’s Young Health Programme and the One Young World team

Challenge Criteria

• Aligned: Evidently aligned with the challenge.
• Youth-led: Founded and led by a person aged 18 – 30.
• Focused: Well-structured time horizon, identified key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
• Market ready: Product/service already in market or ready to go to market.
• Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, creating legislative change or measuring behaviour change.
• Measurable: Impacts of solutions must have been adequately measured and/or be measurable.
• Financially viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and to survive independently through the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
• Scalable: Potential to perform as well or better after expanding in scope or size and/or being transported to other regions.

Eligibility Criteria

• This Lead2030 Challenge will be supported by AstraZeneca’s Young Health Programme. To be eligible for this grant, the funding must be payable to a registered non-profit organisation that is accountable for delivering the project.
• Projects cannot incorporate treatment of medical conditions or the promotion or prescription of medicines but should instead focus on the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviours and the prevention of disease.
• The project must be delivered by a registered non-profit organisation which is able to pass due diligence and verification checks. This will include documentation to ensure the projects meet legal requirements on international charitable donations. You must complete this stage before the grant payment is made. Documents may include a copy of your organisation’s governing document (eg articles of incorporation), a certificate of charitable registration in your country, most recent annual financial accounts, a bank statement from the last 3 months as proof of your organisation’s bank account, and details of your Trustees/Directors’ full names, residential addresses and dates of birth.

For more information, visit Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 3.

Deadline: 15 March 2023

Mama Cash is now seeking applications for its Resilience Fund to support ambitious feminist and women’s, girl’s, and trans people’s and intersex people’s rights organisations and initiatives led by and for women, girls, and trans people and intersex people from anywhere in the world.

Priorities and Focus

• Mama Cash has the flexibility to fund anywhere in the world. Even though contexts are significantly different, Mama Cash founds that concerns of some specific groups of women, girls, trans people and intersex people tend to be under-addressed and/or contested in most societies (and social movements). So these groups are often found among its grantees.
• Mama Cash prioritises groups or initiatives that have an annual budget below 200.000 euros. Mama Cash does not prioritise providing financial support to larger groups. As a result, among its grantee-partners in the thematic portfolios you will find only very few groups that have annual budgets over 200.000 euros.

Funding Information

• Resilience Fund grants vary in size, but the range is typically between €5,000 to €50,000 per year, with an average grant size of about €35,000.

Mama Cash supports groups and initiatives that:

• Work from a feminist, women’s, girl’s, trans and/or intersex rights perspective;
• Are self-led by the women, girls, trans people and/or intersex people they serve;
• Have the promotion of women’s, girls’, trans people’s and/or intersex people’s human rightsas their primary mission, and not just as the focus of part of their programmes;
• Push for structural and fundamental change;
• Focus on issues that are under-addressed and/or contested;

Eligibility Criteria

• Mama Cash will be open to all applications from self-led feminist organisations and initiatives – without thematic or geographic restrictions.

For more information, visit Mama Cash.