DFID Mini Grant Fund 2009

Tuesday 29 July 2008

Friday 31 October 2008

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The Centre for Global Education (CGE) is a resource base for global and developing world studies based in Belfast and one of its services is the administration of the Department for International Development’s (DFID) Development Awareness Mini Grant Fund in Northern Ireland.

The fund is designed to support projects between 1 and 3 years, which aim to raise awareness of international development issues at a local level. Grants awarded under the fund range from a minimum of £1,000 to a maximum grant of £10,000. 100% funding of projects is available from DFID with a maximum of 8% of DFID's contribution available for administration costs.

Applications to the mini grant fund for the 2009 round is 5pm on Friday, 31 October 2008. The Centre will notify applicants of the outcome of the assessment process in December 2008. Projects supported under this funding round can begin on 1 April 2009 although grants will be distributed between mid- and late April 09.

About the Fund

The DFID Mini Grants Fund is aimed at organisations or networks with an interest in development education work and open only to applicants based in the north of Ireland. The fund is designed to support projects from 1-3 years which seek to raise awareness of:

• International development issues
• Our global interdependence
• The need for international development
• The progress that has been made in international development and that is possible.

For further information about development education concepts and measuring the effectiveness of your work please access the following on-line documents at www.centreforglobaleducation.com

• Centre for Global Education, “The Global Dimension in Schools in Northern Ireland.

• Centre for Global Education, “The Global Dimension in the Black and Minority Ethnic Centre in Northern Ireland.

• Centre for Global Education, “Global Youth Work in in Northern Ireland.

Meeting the Aims of the Fund

For your application to be successful, you must demonstrate how your project will raise awareness of international development issues. DFID looks for projects that generate knowledge and understanding of the Millennium Development Goals (UN targets designed to eradicate poverty) and the values that underpin them among new and wider audiences.

Further information on the Millennium Development Goals is available at www.un.org/millenniumgoals. Successful applications are those that are clearly defined as projects, rather than core programme work and have clear and realistic development education objectives. A list of successful projects supported by the fund in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland over the past two years is available from the DFID web site: www.dfid.gov.uk (follow the steps below for accessing the funding guidelines).

Accessing Guidelines

An electronic version is available on the DFID web site (www.dfid.gov.uk) by clicking on ‘About DFID’ and then ‘How DFID Works in the UK’, and finally, clicking on ‘Through the Development Awareness Fund’. It is highly recommended that you read DFID's strategy paper on development education, Building Support for Development, before submitting an application. A copy of this document is available at the DFID web site by clicking on 'How DFID works in the UK' and then clicking on 'Through the Development Awareness Fund'.

Centre for Global Education provides advice to applicants and organises briefing seminars. Details of the seminars will be carried in a separate posting on this web site or contact: stephen@centreforglobaleducation.com