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Mama Cash accepts
proposals for funding from women’s rights groups that work on natural resource
rights, and/or on issues of land, property and inheritance rights. Mama Cash
also welcomes applications of groups of girls and trans people in line with our
selection criteria.
Mama
Cash Letter of Interest Form Is Attached.
Proposals must be
received by 1 July 2014.
What
work can we support?
We accept proposals for funding
from women’s groups that work on:
· Women’s
inheritance rights
· Women’s
land and property rights
· Women’s
right to water and/or other natural resources
· Women’s
right to food security
· Land
grabbing
· Countering
the negative impact of extractive industries on (Indigenous) people’s
land and resources and on the
environment
· Countering
the negative impact of large-scale development projects, for example
those related to infrastructure
or agro-business
· Increasing
women’s decision-making in matters of land, property and inheritance
· Increasing
women’s decision-making in matters of natural resource management
Groups working on these issues
may use different strategies, such as advocacy, capacity
building, public education or
alliance forming across movements. Mama Cash cannot support
groups whose main strategies are
income-generating activities, micro-credit programmes,
academic research, or social and
health care service provision.
Mama Cash funding can be used to
cover core costs of organisations (for example office rent,
salaries, volunteer stipends and
staff training). Activities or project costs can also be part of a
Mama Cash grant. Mama Cash
prioritises organisations with annual operating budgets under
200,000 euros.
Who can we
support?
Mama Cash supports organisations
and initiatives (not individuals or businesses) that:
· Have the promotion of women’s, girls’
and/or trans people’s human rights as their
primary mission, and not just as
the focus of one of their programmes
· Work from a feminist and/or women’s
rights perspective
· Are self-led by the women, girls and/or
trans people they serve
· Are not based in the United States or
Canada
· Push for structural and fundamental
change
· Want to grow in influence, power, and/or
scale in order to implement their long-term
strategy for achieving the
structural change they wish to make happen
· Have politics and practices that are
inclusive and foster alliances with women, girls
and/or trans people at the
margins of societies and movements
· Are connected to other organisations in
women’s rights and/or other social justice
movements
More elaborate information on
our criteria and on what we do and do not fund is available from
our website.
How can you
apply?
Your organisation or group can
fill in the Mama Cash Letter of Interest (LOI) form. This form is
available in six languages: English,
Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, and Dutch. The
attachments to this message
contain the same LOI form in each of these six languages.
Send your filled LOI form in any
of these languages to barbara@mamacash.org no later
than 1
July 2014. All applicants will
receive Mama Cash’s reply to their proposal by 1 September 2014.
Do you have further questions
before you decide whether to apply or not? Please contact us via