CFPs: Al Madad Foundation Grant Program

The Al Madad Foundation (AMF) has announced a call for proposals for its Grant Program to support civil society institutions and schools in delivering creative and innovative solutions to specific problems facing refugee and displaced children and youths in the Middle East and Europe, and finding approaches to make education safe, accessible, and resilient in emergencies.

Through this AMF aspires to identify and correct gaps in existing educational and protection systems that are failing to offer sustainable solutions to refugee children and youths and their families.

Focus Areas

AMF is focusing on the following areas:

• Creating direct pathways to formal education: This encompasses the creation of exceptional opportunities for accessing formal and alternative education as well as employment-focused vocational training, answering specific needs and presenting realistic solutions for refugee and displaced children and youths. It is the preference of AMF that education takes place in-person where possible, rather than through remote learning solutions.
• Social work and chid protection in education: AMF would like to place a particular focus on child protection provision in non-formal education and on addressing the need for funders to integrate as standard a social work/protection element into all projects involving direct contact with children, youth, and vulnerable groups.
• Pupil tracking: AMF are interested in exploring means to accurately track pupil integration into, and monitor their outcomes within, the formal education system. This could include the development of technology to combat lack of administrative capacity in schools, or projects examining the efficacy of current tools and ways to improve them.
• Research into impact: This topic should focus specifically on past and current education schemes implemented with refugee and vulnerable host community children, examining and evaluating the extent of their impact. Consideration should be given to new local realities, the needs of learners, and the capacity of their families, and evidence based suggestions should be made as to the future of such programmes.

The proposed project:

• Must show clear innovation and therefore cannot be an existing project unless it is entering a markedly new phase of development; AMF will consider incorporating existing costs (if applicable) during the implementation of the new project if there is a demonstrably necessary link between the two
• Must propose AMF as the exclusive donor of the project covered by your proposal (AMF should be the sole donor of the new project or ‘innovation’, however, it is understood that if the innovation is an addition to an existing project the latter may require involvement from other donors)
• Must clearly illustrate the organisation’s ability to effectively implement the project, and that it would provide value for money, constitute added value in the field and contain a clear monitoring process
• Must not have as an aim the promotion one religion or faith
• Must not duplicate work already in practice in the field
• Must be for children or youths: AMF will consider projects for youths, however, the focus is on ‘children’ so they would expect a significant proportion of any project targeting youths to include the 15-18 age-group

Funding Information

• Organisations can submit one application for any amount up to £250,000 for a defined project of up to three years’ duration.
• While the full amount allocated to this call is £250,000, more than one organisation may be selected for funding, and only truly exceptional proposals are likely to be awarded the funding in its entirety.