STAR-Ghana phase one (2010-15) was a multi- donor pooled funding mechanism - funded by UK aid (DFID), DANIDA, the EU and USAID. Approximately 157 civil society organisations (CSOs), including the media, community-based organisations and the government were supported during the programme period, with a total budget of approximately US$38 million.
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Election 2020 programme of work
STAR Ghana Foundation's Elections 2020 programme of work seeks to support a range of citizens’ actions and initiatives towards achieving credible, peaceful and inclusive presidential and parliamentary elections in 2020 and a smooth transition subsequently.
The Foundation is consequently issuing a Call for Proposals from interested and eligible organisations, including NGOs, CSO coalitions and alliances, citizen groups, media organisations and coalitions, faith-based organisations, academic institutions, private sector/business associations and community-based organisations to achieve these objectives.
The Elections 2020 Call and Key issues:
The Overall Aim of the Elections 2020 Call is to increase the effectiveness of citizens’ actions for credible, peaceful and inclusive presidential and parliamentary elections. The focus will be on supporting joined up citizens’ actions, at all levels of governance, including innovative alliances and collaborations between different sections of civil society to achieve traction and results across the elections value chain.
Expected Outputs:
Citizens mobilised at local and national levels and engaging effectively with relevant stakeholders towards addressing the issues of vigilantism and other election-related conflicts;
Increased responsiveness of Election Management Bodies (EMBs) to the issues, needs and concerns of excluded social groups (, particularly persons with disability, women, young people and hard-to-reach communities) around their effective participation in all stages of the elections ‘value chain’.
Increased capacity of citizens’ groups to influence political parties and presidential and parliamentary candidates around issues of inclusive and sustainable development.
Key Issues to note:
- Proposals should focus on any one, or combination, of the three issues indicated below. Proposals seeking to address any issues outside of these three will be rejected.
- Addressing vigilantism and election-related conflicts
- Inclusion and active participation of GESI-groups in all stages of the elections (value-chain)
- Influencing manifestos at constituency and national levels, including debates.
- Proposals focusing on issues a. and c. above must in addition demonstrate how issues of gender and social inclusion will be mainstreamed;
- The Call is particularly targeted at formal or informal alliances or coalitions of civil society organisations (CSOs) including innovative alliances involving NGOs, media organisations, private sector associations, academia and faith-based organisations.
- Individual organisations are eligible to apply but they must demonstrate how they will collaborate with other actors to achieve the objectives of their proposals.
- Collaboration or engagement with relevant state actors is important to achieving the objectives of this Call. Applicants will therefore be required to be explicit about which state actors or agencies they will be engaging with and how this will be done.
Call Components
The call has been split into two components:
Strategic component
This component will focus on national and regional level actions around the three key issues indicated above and post-election issues. Projects shall have a maximum duration of 16 months and grant fund support not exceeding GHC 450,000. Click here for more information
Local partnership component
The local partnership component will support actions/projects at community and district levels around the three key issues indicated above. Projects shall have a maximum duration of 16 months and grant fund support not exceeding GHC 250,000. Click here for more information
