KFAS believes that CSOs have an in-depth understanding of the social, environmental, economic, and institutional challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and can offer innovative and effective interventions to tackle and address them.
Eligible entities may compete for financial support to co-fund a volunteer, not for profit projects, solutions, or efforts that address one or more of the following areas:
- Start / Supplement multilingual social distancing tools in public spaces, schools, and work-places.
- Start / Supplement volunteer program for community-based care for high risk individuals.
- Start / supplement Mental Health initiatives:
- Start / Supplement educational awareness targeting parents to continue educating their children on
- Arabic campaign for mental health awareness during covid
- Provide certified training in Arabic for therapists and social workers on dealing with pandemic issues
- Provide volunteer support for caregivers of elderly individuals with dementia and Alzheimer’s.
- Create a volunteer psycho-social support system specifically for Frontline workers
- Start / Supplement educational awareness targeting parents to continue educating their children on Enara
- Start / Supplement online educational initiative for children with learning difficulties
- Start / Supplement educational initiatives for children with disabilities
- Start / supplement awareness program directed to business owners on caring for low income workers.
- Start / supplement a support system for small and medium business to sustain low income workers.
Proposals must include a specific scope, timeline, beneficiaries, and human, technical and financial resources needed to achieve it.
Proposals will be viewed more favorably the more they include the following criteria:
- The project will be implemented by a number of CSO’s rather than a single entity.
- The project will involve training and involvement of a larger number of volunteers.
- The applicant(s) has past experience in the area of the project
- The targeted outcomes of the project are identified clearly and quantified whenever possible.
Application Deadline: Sunday 16th August 2020
Expected Decision: Monday 31st August 2020
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Entities (not individuals) from any of the following categories are eligible to apply:
- Civil Society Organization (with valid MOSAL registration)
- Non-profit entity (with valid KCCI/MOCI registration)
- A volunteer group that was formed under the pandemic and has visible impact.
Total funding per project: 5,000 KD
Number of funding opportunities: 20 (twenty)
Exclusion criteria:
- Entity cannot prove status as described above
- Entity has applied through another KFAS program for the same call period
- Application submissions after deadline.
Evaluation of applications:
- A committee is formed to evaluate all received proposals according to the conditions and requirements mentioned in this document.
- Previous experience and achievements are considered.
- You might be requested to present your proposal online.
- Supporting documents and presentations are welcomed.
For more information, please contact us through ERCSO@kfas.org.kw
This call is part of KFAS’s Emergency Resilience Program to support Kuwait’s resilience against the pandemic in four main areas: Health, Education, Business Environment, and CSOs.