STAR Ghana Foundation is seeking a resource person to lead the development of a Roadmap for Mainstreaming Human Security & Gender Equality into National Border Security Strategies/frameworks. This is part of the Foundation’s implementation of the Community cohesion project across six (6) border communities in the Upper East Region of Ghana, with funding from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Ghana.
The project seeks to enhance communal and social cohesion through the establishment of dialogue platforms as a mechanism for collaborative problem solving around issues of security and socio-economic vulnerabilities in selected border communities. It also seeks to build capacities of members of the community dialogue platforms in relevant areas such as peace, border security, human rights and gender equality etc, and sensitize the selected border communities on prevailing border security threats. Find below a link to the document detailing the scope of the assignment and the expected deliverables.
document TOR for Roadmap on Human Security & Gender Equality (75 KB)
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CALL FOR PARTNERSHIP APPLICATION - ACTION FOR VOICE, INFLUENCE AND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT (AVID) PROJECT
Call for Partnerships
Summary
STAR-Ghana Foundation is seeking partnerships with suitably qualified organisations to develop and implement projects and actions aimed at improving access to quality social services and access to resources for secured livelihoods for underserved populations and to strengthen their voice and participation in governance at community, district and national levels. The underserved groups targeted for this call include persons with disability (PWD), young people, Fulani/Fulbes, rural women, peasant and small holder farmers and informal workers, such as market women. Eligible organisations include community-based organisations (CBOs), citizens’ action groups, farmers’ and trade/livelihoods organisations and networks, coalitions and alliances of organisations working for or with the afore-mentioned underserved populations. Interested and qualified organisations should: - download and complete the application templates (Narrative and Budget) from STAR Ghana Foundation’s website (www.star-ghana.org); via
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send a request to the following email address for application templates: info@star@ghana.org Completed templates should be submitted by email to applications @star-ghana.org. Applications should be submitted no later than 8 th December 2022. All enquiries should be addressed to info@star-ghana.org or via 0302554520 and 0302556429 from 14th -21st November 2022 between 9:00 am-5:00pm.
Background
STAR Ghana Foundation is a national center for the promotion of active citizenship and philanthropy. It works towards the development of a vibrant, well-informed and assertive civil society able to contribute to sustainable national development and inclusive access to high quality public services for all citizens. The Foundation’s strategic approach focuses on supporting the creation and utilization of spaces for collective and coordinated citizens’ engagement with local and national duty bearers as a means of promoting inclusion, transparency, accountability and responsiveness in governance and decision making at both local and national levels. With support from the Flora and Hewlett Foundation, STAR Ghana Foundation is implementing the three-year Actions for Voice and Inclusive Development (AVID) project, which seeks to build sustainable partnerships with community-Based Organisations and less formalised networks, alliances and with social movements through capacity building to effectively represent their constituents (underserved groups), and to improve access to social services and public goods by members of underserved population networks and associations’. STAR-Ghana is seeking to develop partnerships with interested and qualified organisations towards achieving AVID’s objectives. The partnership will involve the joint development and implementation of sub-projects and actions and the strengthening of the organisational and technical capacities of organisations representing or working with underserved populations.
Focus Issues
The AVID project will support activities that have the following focus;
- Constituency and movement building around key issues of access to public services and livelihoods for identified underserved groups
- Advocacy towards access to information regarding government policies and programmes
- Strengthening spaces for engagements and dialogues between underserved groups and duty bearers at local, regional and national levels
- Enhancing access to market for produce, storage facilities for farm produce and influencing pricing of produce
- Facilitating access to skills building and apprenticeship for young people
- Promoting social cohesion (between herders and farmers) and integration of fulanis into communities
- Influencing women’s access to land for productive work at the local and rural levels - Improving women’s business/entrepreneurship management skills.
- Promoting disability inclusion mainstreaming and PWDs participation in local governance
Eligible Organisations
This Call for Partnership is open to CBOs, networks and associations who have been in existence/operating for at least two years and whose work primarily centers around promoting the interests of their members as well as those of the underserved groups. Specifically, eligible organisations must;
- be a Community Based Organisation/Associations/Group, Regional and/or national alliance or networks with a local agenda
- addressing issues that affect a community or communities directly.
- have a local focus – with localised geographical scope, and be community based or community rooted (located within the community they serve).
- manage their affairs through the efforts of members or volunteers and have no or few paid staff.
- be able to provide evidence of past activities within the community/communities they serve (references from the District Assembly Traditional Council or a funding organisation/agency)
- be membership based, non-profit and non-partisan.
- show capacity to work with people from a range of different social, gender, and ethnic backgrounds and promote inclusion of rights of underserved groups.
- show evidence of capacity to engage citizens and citizen groups and create relationships around critical issues
- have existing relationships with community stakeholders, including District Assemblies, traditional and local authorities and be known by the communities where they seek to undertake the project
- be able to demonstrate good working relationships with other Civil Society Organisations at district and local levels to for effective collaboration.
- have an office/a location they work from and be able to show at least one year’s bank statements.
- be willing to learn and share with other programme partners in communities of practice
Duration of Partnership
The project will be implemented over a two-year period, starting from February 2023. STAR Ghana Foundation anticipates awarding a total of twenty-five (25) grants (small grants and strategic). All enquiries should be addressed to info@star-ghana.org or via 0302554520 and 0302556429 from 14th -24th November 2022 between 9:00 am-05:00pm. Applications should be submitted no later than 8th December 2022 (three weeks after this publication)
How to Apply
• Download and complete the application templates (Narrative and Budget) from STAR Ghana Foundation’s website-www.star-ghana.org • Completed templates should be submitted by email through the grant application portal at applications star-ghana.org
• Deadline for submission of completed application forms is 8th December 2022
• Shortlisted applications will be notified within two weeks post submission NB: Please note that in addition to this advertisement in the Daily Graphic, the Call for Proposal will be circulated on District Assemblies notice boards, STAR-Ghana Foundation’s website, community radio networks and community network associations
Follow the link below for the Report on our Consultations on the Action for Voice and Inclusive Development (AVID)
Giving for Change Launched in Ghana
STAR Ghana Foundation in partnership with West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) has launched the Giving for Change project in Ghana. The event was launched under the theme 'Promoting Social Justice Philanthropy for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Ghana: Examining Prospects, Challenges and Lessons
The Giving for change (GFC) Project seeks to promote domestic resources mobilization and philanthropy as a strategy for increasing local ownership and influencing civic action for inclusive development. The project is anchored on the recognition of the importance of domestic resources in increasing local ownership, unlocking agency, and strengthening communities’ ability to claim entitlements from different actors, especially government
STAR-Ghana Foundation, under the Giving for change project funded by the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs has awarded grants to an amount of 468, 144. 50 Ghana cedis to five (5) organizations to implement projects on local giving.
The Giving for Change programme sets out a bold vision for transforming how “development is done” by focusing specifically on the recognition and importance of domestic resources in increasing local ownership, unlocking agency, and strengthening communities’ ability to claim entitlements from different actors, especially government.
The Giving for Change Project is implemented through an Alliance, and covers eight countries in Africa, Asia, and South America.
The project has a dual focus to promote civic and civil society space and strengthen communities’ ability to claim rights and entitlements from different actors, particularly government and domestic resources, through philanthropy, including local giving for transformational social change.
The Giving for Change Project is implemented in three main domains.
Domain two (2) of the project seeks to bring collective learning from the central domain to bear on working with key government, philanthropic and development stakeholders to press for an enabling environment for community philanthropy. The focus is to influence in-country state and other actors to support the development of community philanthropy by creating favourable conditions to promote the power of local philanthropic giving as a form and driver of social and systems change.
It is based on this backdrop that, the STAR-Ghana Foundation launched a closed call for proposals on projects around Local Philanthropy on the following thematic areas:
- Influence public awareness on domestic philanthropic giving (giving for social and systematic change instead of giving for direct needs) and increase trust in Civil Society Actors (CSAs) through advocacy and campaigns. The campaigns will target government, corporate and/or religious stakeholders, and should include dissemination through mainstream and new media.
- Conduct research on legal frameworks for domestic philanthropic giving, and the enabling environment for CSOs, including philanthropic organisations. The research is to serve as foundation for lobbying and advocacy.
- Influence conducive legislation on domestic philanthropic giving, with the support of the public, private and civil society actors including philanthropic support institutions. Advocacy on legislation should contribute to the formulation and review of laws, including the new Company’s Act, new Trustee Bill, Social Enterprise Policy and NGO Bill.
- Innovate giving platform or infrastructure to mobilize local resources or donations (money, skills, networks) as basis for new forms of partnerships for addressing community priorities.
- Amplify voice, claims and concerns of excluded groups (youth, women & girls, people living with disability) through local philanthropy and identifying additional entry points for engagement and action on gender equality and social inclusion.
After a competitive selection process, five (5) organizations have been awarded with grants to implement projects. These organizations include,
- Ghana Philanthropy Forum (GPF)
Title of Project: National Philanthropy Impact Dashboard.
The National Philanthropy Impact Dashboard (NPID) online Dashboard(portal). The portal will have the following modules: Reporting/Accountability/M&E, Sector Reports and Research 2. NGO Module 3. Community Funds Portal 4. Corporate Philanthropy Portal 5. Funding Portal This project will not only improve intelligence within the NGO space but also make activities it more trackable and quantifiable.
- Penplusbytes:
Title of Project: Yɛ Somu Bi
This project seeks to throw some light on domestic philanthropic giving by building an innovative research linked fund-raising and advocacy platform, which allows civil society to mount campaigns that appeal to different individuals and communities and causes them to react by giving off their time, talent or monetary resources. In this initial stage, the platform will be strong on user acceptance testing, focusing on the functionality of such a system in the Ghana online payment and transfers context and on its general usability among a largely semi-literate populace. Our aim is to ultimately empower individuals, donors and the private sector to collaborate and use collective action to achieve various goals on a platform that is a thoroughly tested prototype for future digital local fundraising platforms.
- Multimedia
Title of Project: The Classroom Project
It entails identifying critical uncompleted/dilapidated school infrastructure, mobilise resources through TV, radio and online to complete and furnish them for use. The objective is to promote self-help initiatives at the local community level with internal resources mobilisation.
- Songtaba: Faako: This is an initiative to create awareness on the importance of local giving and the great potentials and impact it can make in our communities by creating space to amplify the voices of very marginalized and excluded groups who needs the support of community members. The initiative would leverage on the experience and lessons from the innovation for localization pilot project which worked in four communities and initiated community actions on local given to support the alleged witches’ camps. The lesson is that communities have welcomed the initiative and ready to use similar approach to tackle their community challenges and priority needs. Songtaba plan to intensify sensitization on local philanthropy and local giving through community led actions, mainstream media, and new media to build communities understanding local giving and collectively establish structures to coordinate local giving activities within their communities.
- Community Development Alliance (CDA)
Title of Project: ‘Youth Giving for Change’ (YGC)
YGC is an innovative youth centered social change initiative that prioritizes inclusive participation of young people (male and female), persons with disabilities and other marginalized groups in local level resource mobilization, decision making and community development processes. The project draws on lessons learnt from previous interventions implemented by CDA across 10 selected communities in the Daffiema/Bussie/Issa District where Social Action Groups (SAGs) were established, empowered through training to champion community development initiatives through volunteerism, communal labour and fostering social accountability mechanisms on public service delivery
INVITATION FOR TENDERS: NATIONAL COMPETITIVE TENDERING (NCT)
STAR-Ghana Foundation with funding from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Ghana is seeking competent suppliers/providers to deliver the underlisted interventions under its Community Livelihoods Empowerment Project.
Find below, a link to the document with required information.