Digital steps for community resilience - Grants application

The British Council & Build Up are pleased to announce the commencement of the grants application process within the Digital steps for community resilience project.

Eligibility

In order to be eligible to apply for a grant of up to 10.000 USD, you will need to:

• have completed the British Council and Build Up courses and obtained a certificate. You still have until 26 February 2023, to take the British Council training courses and the Build Up courses (Digital Peacebuilding 101 and Communications for peacebuilding & digital engagement)
• send a full proposal and its related budget in Arabic or English (see How to apply).
• be between 18 and 30 years old and have prior experience working with digital media.

Evaluation criteria

Applications for grants will be evaluated based on the following criteria:  

• Proposed project addresses emerging needs and contextual challenges to community resilience within the Syrian or Yemen context while devising tangible solutions for those needs.
• Your application demonstrates knowledge of the peacebuilding and gender dynamics, as well as the ability to link to ongoing processes and stakeholders, and/or to harness violence, radicalization, and extremism while promoting human rights values in the proposed intervention.
• Your application demonstrates that a space for dialogue can be created, and that greater connections can be made between community members themselves or across divided communities, as well as between community members and authorities, as a result of your submitted project.
• Your project uses digital media to promote gender equality, build peace, promote values, and/or foster space for dialogue to amplify local stories, combat misinformation, or advocate for local issues.
• The project is small-scale in nature, with a maximum budget of USD 10,000.
• The project’s specific goals are clearly identified and measurable.
• The project is environmentally friendly and causes no harm to the ecosystem.
• 50% of the beneficiaries of your project should be women.

Applicants who will be considered should have no adherence to or affiliations with violent ideologies or antagonism against any particular country, culture, religion or belief system, ethnic group, gender.

How to apply

Download the proposal, workplan, and budget forms from the download section below, and fill them out. Once you are ready to apply, send them in an email message to Programmes.Syria@britishcouncil.org, before the deadline - 7 March 2023 (23:59 GMT+2).

If you have any questions, please check the Frequently Asked Questions document, available below.

Timeline