Global Affairs Canada is launching a call for Canadian organizations entitled “Education for Refugee and Displaced Children and Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This call is part of the department’s campaign ‘Together for Learning’ - Education for refugee, other forcibly-displaced and host community children and youth, which aims to promote quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for refugee, internally displaced and host community children and youth.

Objectives

This call is designed to increase access to education for refugee and displaced children and youth. Targeted capacity building, combined with small grants for core activities, locally driven education-related programming and policy engagement, would amplify the voices of refugee and internally displaced people (IDPs) and those of organizations that represent them and are led by them. The call has 3 core objectives:

• facilitate organizational capacity building among local RLO and/or IDP-led organizations working in the education sector to strengthen their empowerment and organizational effectiveness
• provide grants to local organizations, particularly RLO and/or IDP-led organizations, to strengthen gender-responsive education programming for refugee and internally displaced children and youth, particularly girls and adolescent girls, and ensure due diligence and monitoring of grants
• amplify the voices of local RLO and IDP-led organizations working in the education sector, including women-led organizations, through their collective action with key education stakeholders, governments and host communities

Funding Information

Global Affairs Canada expects to fund a limited number of projects, valued between $5 million and $20 million each.

Outcomes

Ultimate outcome

• Under this call, your proposed project must contribute to the achievement of the ultimate outcome:
  • enhanced equitable and inclusive learning outcomes for refugee, internally displaced and host community children and youth, particularly girls and adolescent girls, living in select countries of sub-Saharan Africa eligible for official development assistance (ODA)

Intermediate outcomes

• Your proposed project must also contribute to all of the following intermediate outcomes:
  • improved performance of local refugee and/or IDP-led organizations working on gender-responsive education
  • increased access to gender-responsive quality education for refugees and internally displaced children and youth, particularly girls and adolescent girls, enabled by refugee and/or IDP-led organizations
  • enhanced collective action of local refugee and/or IDP-led organizations (including women-led/rights organizations) to advance the right to gender-responsive quality education for refugee and internally displaced children and youth, particularly vulnerable groups

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, you must meet each of the following eligibility screening requirements and, where stipulated, provide supporting documentation. If your organization is submitting a concept note on behalf of a group of organizations that would sign the funding agreement with Global Affairs Canada, each organization (i.e. co-signatory) must meet all of the following requirements and provide documentation:

• Your organization must be Canadian, which means for the purpose of this call that your organization is legally incorporated in Canada, established with an office and employees in Canada and can provide proof of legal status (e.g. a letter of incorporation) along with a Canada Revenue Agency business number
• You must provide 2 separate financial statements for the most recent fiscal years (audited statements are preferred; if these are not available, the statements must be signed by a member of the board of directors of each signatory, by the board’s delegate or by the owner(s). Note: since financial statements usually provide comparative information from the previous year, these statements will be used to do a 3-year trend analysis
• You must be registered in the Partners International portal
• You must provide an Organization Attestation signed by the organization’s chief financial officer or a duly authorized board member
• You may submit only 1 concept note under this call. The organization may also participate as a non-signatory partner on one or other applicants’ concept notes. Note: If your organization submits more than 1 application as signatory under this call, they will only consider the application with the earliest submission time stamp.

For more information, visit Government of Canada.