RLS Southeast Asia – Hanoi Office is calling for project concept notes for the period from 2021 – 2023. Each organization can submit maximum two project concept notes. Projects can be, but are not limited to conferences, policy studies, dialogues, workshops, training, awareness-raising events, development of communication material, educational art work, and advocacy activities.

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) is one of six major political foundations in the Federal Republic of Germany. Affiliated with the German Left party, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung nurtures and promotes democratic socialism.

RLS currently has 26 offices worldwide. In over 80 countries, they are working with partners, including state agencies, academic institutions, and civil society organizations. From RLS Southeast Asia (RLS SEA) – Hanoi Office, they aim to contributing to ensure social, ecological and political rights for all as well as overcoming unequal power structures by promoting participatory decision making processes, political exchange and dialogue, leading to a fair distribution of wealth and resources and a healthy environment.

Themes

Projects should contribute to our three components and focus on specific themes as below:

Component A: Social justice

In this component, they support policy makers, academics, social stakeholders and politically underrepresented groups to conduct intensive dialogues for improving the socio-political situation of politically underrepresented groups and workers. They focus on below themes:

• Global social rights, workers’ rights, labour codes and trade unions.
• Feminism and feminist perspectives
• Democratic socialism and socialist market economy.
• Globalization, Regionalism (Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) and their impacts on social justice and environmental justice)

Component B: Social and Ecological Transformation (SET)

They support policy makers, academics and social stakeholders to build capabilities to address social and ecological problems by applying the framework of SET to develop, implement and share concrete examples and practical approaches. In this component, they focus on:

• Climate Justice, Climate migration
• Food sovereignty, sustainable food production and consumption
• Alternatives to an unsustainable growth focussed economic system. E.g. concepts of degrowth.
• Environmental responsive transportation system.

Component C: Raising progressive Mekong voices in the ASEAN region

They support progressive policy makers, social stakeholders and academics from the Mekong region to share their perspectives and analysis at regional and international level for developing regional solutions to challenges that are relevant across different countries and to discuss/resolve cross-border problems. In this component, they focus on:

• ASEAN and Mekong cooperation for social justice and environmental justice combined with the topics of Component A and B

Funding Information

• Project duration: Project can be implemented in 1 year, 2 years or 3 years during the period from 2021 – 2023
• Single activity projects should not exceed 30,000 EUR /project/year
• Multiple activity projects should not exceed 45.000 EUR/project/year
• Each applicant can submit maximum 02 concept notes.
• For applicants, who don’t have any experience working with RLS, we just accept 1-year project concept notes with a maximum amount of 20,000 EUR.

Requirements for Applicants

State agencies, research institutes, academic institutions, and not-for profit organizations:

• Based in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand
• Have legal status for implementation of projects with above topics.

For more information, visit Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.