DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2019
THE Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime is calling for applications from interested and eligible candidates for a landmark edition of its Resilience Fellowship that offers support and opportunities to a cohort of individuals from around the world.
The Resilience Fellowship was launched in May at the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) in Vienna to build a platform for cross-sectoral, global, and interdisciplinary collaboration between civil society actors, journalists, human-rights activists and others working to counter the effects of organized crime.
SELECTION CRITERIA
The Resilience Fellowship welcomes applications from individuals of any gender, ethnicity, age, religion, or any other defining factor, who work in communities affected by organised crime.
With the theme “Disappearances Related to Organized Crime”, the fellows are expected to combine their various perspectives in the development of collaborative outputs for one year in areas including killings by organised crime groups, missing migrants, human trafficking, harvesting of human organs and unaccountable detentions
Explaining the theme, the Resilience Fund said that disappearances have been used to politically or criminally repress those who speak and act against human rights abuses.
“This global issue is prevalent around the world, making it a relevant and extremely important theme to many potential Fellows.
The Fellowship is based on a three-pronged approach:
- Sponsorship: Providing financial support so that Resilience Fellows will have the time and resources for their individual work and a collaborative project during the fellowship year. Grants of USD $15 000 per Fellow will be awarded for one year.
- Networking: Offering mentorship opportunities with experts from GI-TOC, as well as bringing Resilience Fellows together via a residency retreat to begin the collaborative project to be undertaken during their fellowship year.
- Dissemination: Creating a platform for Resilience Fellows to publicly share their work and ideas — via such venues as festivals, conferences, civil society forums, and national and international publications — which will widen public discourse, deepen engagement with society, and invite the support and participation from the general public and, ultimately, policymakers.
Grant information:
The Fellowship welcomes applications from individuals of any gender, ethnicity, age, religion, or any other defining factor, who work in communities affected by organized crime.
Each fellow will receive $15,000 to be executed with no other limitation than the principles of professionalism, integrity and transparency, the proposal presentedin the application form, the terms and conditions of the Fellowship agreement, and the implementation of collaborative actions with other fellows.
The Fellowship will start on January 15 and end December 31, 2020. Fellows must be available to participate in the following activities as part of the Fellowships agreement:
- Participate in an induction and appointment of a mentor
- Attend a residency retreat
- Participate in a “Resilience Dialogue” at the end of the year.
Selection criteria
- Participants should be from countries disproportionately affected by organized crime, and/or from developing countries.
- Participants should ideally work closely within communities severely affected by disappearances related to organized crime, or have strong ties within them, and should have ongoing or established projects or engagement.
- Participants should be able to demonstrate how the funding and support will be used.
- Participants who have direct experience in their communities’ issues, related to the annual theme, are particularly encouraged to apply.
- Participants must be fluent in at least one of the three languages: Spanish, English and French.
- The prior work of participants should demonstrate a commitment to the ethics and values of the Resilience Fund.
For more Information: Visit the website for Application for Resilience Fellowship 2020 Program
