The training will cover areas including project design and proposal writing, financial reporting and bookkeeping, donor reporting, leadership, organization building, and monitoring and evaluation. And the training will target the recipient human rights organizations of Core Grants as part of the Minorities, Accountability and Civic Space (MACS) project.

As part of the project Minorities, Accountability and Civic Space (MACS), these training programmes aim to enable grassroots civil society organizations to improve the organizational infrastructure of organizations to allow them to operate efficiently, and hence allow them to advance their work in democracy and human rights.

Funding Information and Duration

• There are 4 grants available. Only one grant will be awarded per country. The amount available for each grant is 5,500 euros.
• Please submit a proposal that does not exceed or go below 5,500 euros.
• The training is expected to take place within 2 months of acceptance.

The Selected Organization Will:

• Be responsible for the planning and implementing the logistics of the trainings, with the support of MRG team.
• Work with MRG to design the training programme and agree on potential trainers and/ or speakers. The programme will be guided by the results of the needs assessment that MRG conducted prior to the training.
• Be responsible for running and facilitating the training programme over a three-day period. The (10) beneficiaries of the training will be selected by MRG form its cohort of civil society organizations.
• Make sure that the training will address the needs of the organizations uncovered in the organizational assessment questionnaire, that organizations fill as a pre-requisite to receiving MRG’s Core Grants. The training areas include project design and proposal writing, financial reporting and books keeping, donor reporting, leadership, organization building, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Be responsible for combining both theory and practice in the training and including interactive and participatory elements, such as audio-visual materials to facilitate the absorption of ideas and information, group work to develop strategies and ideas.
• Be responsible for ensuring accessibility to persons with disabilities, and mainstreaming gender and minority rights in the different phases of the training.
• Be responsible for planning the participants’ travel and accommodation and venue logistics.
• Conduct the evaluation of the training program.
• Report on the conducted program.

MRG Will Provide:

• The conditions and outline on the design and the scope of the program.
• Support in planning and running the training.
• The list of participants.
• Detailed information on the needs of the participant organizations.
• In-person supervision and support during the training.
• Provisions for additional security, if necessary (such as providing guidelines on secure data handling, using secure messaging apps for communication, establishing a confidential reporting mechanism for any security concerns that may arise during the event).

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be: A not-for-profit organization committed to the protection and/or promotion of human rights.
• Have excellent experience in delivering capacity building training to human rights organizations.
• The organization must be operating in one or more of the project countries: Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia.
• The organization must have experience in working with disadvantaged ethnic, religious or cultural minorities or marginalized groups such migrants, refugees, LGBTI or persons with disabilities and be committed to involving various minorities and other marginalized communities in their broader activities.
• The organization can provide expertise in project design and management, risk management and financial management. Skills in bookkeeping, donor reporting, leadership, organization building, and monitoring and evaluation are desired.
• The organization must have no public debt, comply with anti-corruption measures and prove absence of conflict of interest.
• Have the ability to receive funding, either through their own organization or an agreed upon alternative arrangement.

For more information, visit Minority Rights Group.