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Click here to read this call for proposals in Thai 

Objective 

Minority Rights Group is seeking proposals for local projects that work toward supporting the rights of minority or marginalized persons to mobilise their communities to facilitate engagement in processes of peacebuilding in the following Southern Border Provinces of Thailand: Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, and the four districts of Songkhla. 

Projects must pilot innovative approaches at the local and national levels. Potential activities can include:  

• Advocacy: research, data collection, producing evidence/reports for advocacy, strategy and planning meetings, monitoring, and publications. 

• Capacity building: trainings and workshops to develop the ability of communities to protect their minority rights, and mediate conflict resolutions and peacebuilding.  
• Government accountability: dialogue with public authorities. 
• Conflict management:   monitoring conflict and community tension, actions relating to identified drivers of conflict, dialogue with local authorities, research into conflict drivers, and ways to reduce impact. 
• Peacebuilding: community mediation initiatives, intercommunity projects; arts, education, or sports projects; inter-community dialogues, problem-solving initiatives. 
• Law: trainings including paralegal and rights training, legal support initiatives. 

• Trainings: conflict resolution trainings, trainings of HRDs or community members on their rights.  
• Creative communications: campaigns, communication, and awareness raising initiatives. 

Criteria for Applicants:  

• Be a non-governmental or community-based organisation working on related issues. 
• Have an established track record of similar work. 

• Be committed to peaceful resolution of conflict and must not be engaged in or support in any way violent activities 
• Be committed to involving all ethnic and/or religious communities, gender, and people with disabilities in your broader activities. 

Term of Reference

Projects can be between 5,000 EUR – 25,000 EUR 

Projects can be implemented from 1 July 2023 onward. The maximum project duration is 18 months (The duration of activity can be between 6 – 18 months) 

Project Selection Criteria  

1. Innovative projects that pilot new approaches to promoting and protecting minority rights.   
2. Clear project objectives with concrete outcomes and outputs.  
3. Clearly justified budget that represents value for money. 
4. Clearly identified target beneficiaries and a plan to reach those beneficiaries and advocacy targets effectively. 
5. Projects that address gender issues, pay attention to multiple forms of discrimination, and include vulnerable groups in project implementation and/or organisational structure.  
6. Projects that encourage effective collaboration with other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).   

 Anticipated Timeline:  

17 May 2023: Call for Applications released 

26 May 2023: Online Q&A Session with CSOs (26 May 2023 at 2.30 p.m. BKK time) Click here to join  

18 June 2023: Application deadline  

23 June 2023: Successful applicants notified   

1 July 2023: Start of Activities 

Background

Minority Rights Group (MRG) is an international non-governmental organization working to secure rights for ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities worldwide and to promote co-operation between communities. The grants are financed by ‘Inclusive Peacebuilding for Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces,’ a three-year programme funded by the European Union

Submission Process: 

Please fill out the form below by 18 June 2023. 

- Step 1 of 4

Your details

Name of your organization *

Name of the project *

Location *

Total project budget *

Requested contribution *

Other donors *

Duration of the project *

Current/new project? *

Information of applicant organisation

Official name of the organization (as registered in your country)

Name of your organisation in English

Registration number

Tax number

Legal representative of the organisation (name, title)

Organisation address

Contact person name

Contact person phone number

Contact person e-mail *

Bank details

Name and address of the bank

Account number (IBAN format)

BIC/SWIFT address of the bank

Owner of the account

Signature to the account

Next

Short description of minority rights situation

Contribution of the project to improve minority rights situation

How is your project innovative?

Collaboration with other projects, aid organizations, governments

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Project objective(s) *

State 2-3 concise objectives that your project hopes to achieve. Ie increasing the capacity of minority women to advocate for their rights under national law

Target group & beneficiary numbers *

Who are the people that will benefit from your project? Who are your target groups (ie minority women, local officials etc)

Concrete outcomes, Quantified *

Provide details of what your project will achieve, ie 30 religious minority women will be more aware of their rights under national laws

Concrete outputs, quantified *

Provide details of what your project will produce/undertake ie 1 training for 30 minority women; 1 briefing paper on discrimination against minority religious women

Date / Time

Date

Time

Summary of project costs(upload the budget file) *

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Use budget template attached Click here to download the budget template

Risk Analysis

What potential risks will there be throughout the project implementation? *

Include measures that you will take to reduce the risks *

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What experience does your organization have with working with minorities? Are you a minority-led organisation? *

How will you include women and address gender discrimination in your project? *

How will you include other vulnerable groups in your project (ie persons with disabilities, LGBT+, children, the elderly, minorities within minorities etc)? *

Has your organisation’s staff participated in any MRG trainings? If yes, please specify *

GDPR Agreement *

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