Deadline: Ongoing
The Arab Human Rights Fund provides financial & technical support to the human rights defenders and organizations in the Arab region for promotion and realization of all human rights.
The Fund supports primarily actors who would elsewhere be ineligible for funding or for reasons of capacity or otherwise have difficulty securing funding from sources outside the region. It supports the promotion, protection, and advancement of the full spectrum of human rights – civil, political, economic, social, and cultural – and the human rights of all constituencies, e.g., women, children, minorities, persons with disabilities.
Grants Available
The Fund will award grants up to $40,000 per grant and not per grantee. The Fund will also make multi-year grants for up to three years.
Focus Areas
The Fund’s latest grants were aimed at:
- Fostering a regional debate between traditional actors and experts in the field of human rights and emerging actors,on the new approaches, strategies for action, tools and resources needed to effectively contribute to the processes of transition to democracy in their respective countries.
- Creating and nurturing a sense of ownership among Libyan citizens in the constitution-making process through educating them about their rights within the constitution, and providing them with a forum for debate and dialogue to voice out their expectations and concerns about their constitution and advocate for their recommendations to be adopted by the Constitutional Drafting Committee.
- Building the capacities of the employees and core members of a local Tunisian organization to enable them to recruit and mobilize new members and design a community organizing strategy that will support them in their work on police reform projected over the coming three years.
Focus Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants can be
- Non-governmental human rights organizations, networks, and coalitions
- Human rights programs and initiatives by other actors’ i.e. local development and other civil society groups, educational institutions, national human rights institutions, duty bearers, professional associations…etc.
- Nascent civil society organizations
- Well-established civil society organizations with a demonstrated record of outreach to emerging actors
- Informal groups that show potential to carry out important initiatives
- Organizations and individuals carrying out human rights work in enforced exile
- Individuals working in the public sphere (on a case-by-case basis).
How to Apply
- All interested applicants are invited to register with the Fund’s Grants Portal.
- The Arab Human Rights Fund has a two-step application process:
- Interested applicants begin by submitting a letter of inquiry (template available on the portal) that summarizes information about the applicant and the proposed action for which they seek funding.
- After reviewing the letter of inquiry, the grants program team will invite promising applicants to apply for a grant. The application packet will be sent to these applicants at that time.
For more information, please visit Arab Fund.
