Request for Proposals (RFP) Transformative Care Agendas in the Global Majority
The SAGE Fund, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation Future of Work(ers) program, invites concept notes from Global Majority1 organizations, movements, unions, and cooperatives to develop care strategies, agendas, and movement building that are grounded in local, national, or regional opportunities. Projects should leverage those openings to contribute to the development of transformative policies, laws, models, narratives, and norms that advance a fair social organization of care that includes paid and unpaid care work and centers the dignity, rights, and agency of those providing and receiving care. Projects should be focused on and take place in Africa, Asia, Latin America and/or the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Proposals must be received by 29 January 2024.
Objectives
The RFP seeks to contribute to advancing three key objectives in the field:
● Promoting the importance and value of care through public investment, support and provision, with primary responsibility held by the state and co-sharing of responsibility by third sector/community care and market institutions;
● Shifting care systems, policies, regulations, and models to center the wellbeing of all care workers (irrespective of their work status), including increasing economic security, protections, and worker voice in shaping labor laws and regulations and achieving economic justice; and
● Strengthening coalitions within care sectors and alliances across labor, feminist, migrant, disability, social, environmental, and economic justice movements, among others to build and advance a collective support and care agenda at the local, national, regional and global levels.
Eligibility to receive funds:
A. Eligible organizations must either
● Be a legally registered charity in the local country and have a bank account that is capable of receiving international wire transfers; or
● Designate a legally registered charity (or entity eligible to receive charitable funds) in the country and has a local bank account capable of receiving international wire transfers to serve as the project’s fiscal agent.
B. Given the size of the grants offered, all applicants must have the ability to absorb and manage a US $100,000 project grant. Therefore, if an organization is applying alone, it would need to have an annual budget of US $200,000 or greater. If applying in 4 partnership, the size and the annual budgets of the partners may vary, but at least one of the partners must meet the minimum annual budget of US $200,000. The grantee partner must have the financial infrastructure and capacity to receive and manage a US US $100,000 on behalf of the other partners.
C. We are unable to provide grant funding to organizations that are based in any of the following countries, nor can we support projects that are conducting activities directly in these countries: Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, India, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Ukraine (Russian-Occupied Territories), Yemen.
Grant support:
Organizations may apply for a grant from US $100,000 – $150,000 for a term up to 18 months and for project activities with a clear start and end date.
Download the full RFP at – https://www.sagefundrights.org/rfp
