Collaboration Lab for Bangladeshi Media & Civil Society

• Eligibility Criteria
  For the Collaboration Lab for Bangladeshi Media & Civil Society:
  – Alliances must consist of at least one media organisation and one CSO. One organisation will apply as the ‘lead’ organisation, responsible for signing the subgrant with Free Press Unlimited and ARTICLE19 and the overall management of the subgrant. The other organisation(s) will act as the co-applicant(s);
  – Organisations that have participated as leads in a previous round of the project can only apply as co-applicants in a next round;
  – Applicants eligible for financial support must be non-profit or profit-making entities that can include media outlets, NGOs, CSOs, or media development organisation, and must be established and registered in Bangladesh.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Bangladesh
• Application Language: English

Free Press Unlimited, in collaboration with ARTICLE 19, invites Bangladeshi civil society organisations (CSOs) and media to form alliances to together apply for this third and final round of the Collaboration Lab.

The Collaboration Lab is a small grants project for alliances of Bangladeshi media and civil society organisations (CSOs). It aims to promote collaboration on issues that are important and relevant to Bangladeshi citizens, stimulate the development of innovative solutions and facilitate knowledge exchange and mutual learning.

In addition to the financial support, selected alliances will have access to tailor-made capacity-building packages that include training and coaching on digital security, gender and inclusion, internal governance, and internal systems and procedures.

Thematic Areas

In line with the Sustainable Development Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions), the proposed initiative should address at least one of these five thematic areas:

• Accountability: covering transparency, corruption and illicit finance.
• Information: covering access to information, freedom of expression, right to information.
• Inclusion: covering inclusive participation of women and girls, youth, LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities and ethnic minority / indigenous groups.
• Digital: covering defending digital and civic spaces, combating disinformation.
• Safety: covering safety of journalists, violence against women and children, human trafficking or extrajudicial killings.

Funding Information

A selection committee will then assess the proposals and select around 5 alliances to receive a grant of maximum of 60,000 EUR.

See here to learn more and apply.

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