Pulsante’s Rapid Response Fund provides organizations and social movements with the financial and technical support to leverage windows of opportunity to trigger public discussions and civic engagement.

Pulsante seek to diversify and expand campaigns to promote collective actions that will expand civic space, promote the development of practices that reduce gaps between governments and civil society, and safeguard space for participation and collective organization.

Under this framework, the following initiatives will be supported:

• Advocacy and citizen mobilization campaigns that seek to expand civic space and represent the voices of excluded and underrepresented sectors, such as domestic workers, delivery workers, groups in rural communities, indigenous peoples, etc.
• Campaigns, actions and documentations that treat evidence of human rights abuses and discuss them in the public agenda
• Citizen actions that seek to place relevant issues on the agenda and encourage open and democratic discussion
• Citizen mobilization calling for change and regulation against human rights abuses
• Response to the introduction of legislation that diminishes or reduces the political rights of the population, promotes censorship and/or has other effects on human rights and civic space

Characteristics of the Rapid Response Fund

• Resources from US$10,000 to US$15,000 may be requested.
• Technical support may be requested on topics such as campaigns, communication, advocacy and others.
• The support will last between 3 and 6 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• Coalitions of organizations
• Collectives of organized civil society

Selection Criteria

• Campaigns should be designed under the premises of promoting human rights and citizen participation online and offline.
• Work plans must be relevant, exhibit the ability to achieve objectives and demonstrate the substantive commitments and logistical capacity of the organization/collective.
• Work plans should comply with the general campaign description and target audience as well as set forth specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound objectives for achieving impact.
• Campaigns should have a national and/or sub-national focus.
• Campaigns should specify and consider the creation of content designed to reach the target audience in any chosen channel (print, audio, video or digital) and on any platform, such as community radio, TV, websites, mobile phones, social networks, etc.
• Individual applications will not be accepted.

For more information, visit Rapid Response Fund.