Deadline: 15 November, 2021
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC) has announced a call for applications for its 2022 Resilience Fellowship.
The fellowship is a platform for cross-sectoral, global and interdisciplinary collaboration between civil society actors, human rights activists, journalists, artists, scholars, policymakers, grassroots community leaders and others working to counter the effects of organised crime.
The fellowship, Development Diaries understands, is part of the GI-TOC’s flagship Resilience Fund, which provides grants and support to civil society actors and organisations working to counter the impacts of criminal governance and violence across the world.
Benefits
- Fellows will receive U.S.$15,000 each for one year to carry out projects
- Mentoring opportunities with experts from the GI-TOC
- Publicly share work and ideas through platforms such as conferences, civil society forums and national and international publications, which will expand public discourse, deepen engagement with society, and invite the support and participation from the general public and, ultimately, policymakers
Eligibility
- Applicants should have a background in any of the following fields: journalism and media; activism; advocacy and community mobilisation; the creative arts (artists, writers, filmmakers and others); community leadership (religious, cultural, youth leaders); academia (researchers and scholars), and the public sector (policymakers)
- Individuals from other disciplines will be considered if their work is relevant to the fellowship’s objectives and the annual theme
- The fellowship welcomes applications from people of any gender, ethnicity, age, religion or any other defining factor, who work in communities affected by organised crime
- Participants should be from countries disproportionately affected by organised crime and/or from least developed countries
- Participants should be able to demonstrate how the funding and support will be used
- Participants must be fluent in at least one of Spanish, English and French
To apply and for more information, click here.
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