Request for Applications - Strategic Advocacy for Rights & Reforms in Lebanon (SARR RFA)

The Lebanon Civic Action Accelerator program (LEB-CAAP) is a five-year (2021-2026) $16M civil society strengthening program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Family Health International (FHI 360). LEB-CAAP strengthens civil society’s organizational and technical capabilities to support Lebanon’s development and improve democratic governance. At the national and local levels, LEB-CAAP offers targeted grants and capacity assistance to civil society actors to support advocacy and increased public understanding of rights and reforms. The program operates across Lebanon and engages diverse civil society actors including civil society actors working at the national and local levels, nascent groups, and those led by members of traditionally marginalized groups, especially youth and persons with disabilities.   

Through the Strategic Advocacy for Rights & Reforms (SARR) Request for Applications, LEB-CAAP invites Lebanese civil society actors with a proven track record in implementing successful national-level advocacy efforts to submit their application and compete for grant awards that will result in positive concrete changes in policy and/or practices to advance socio-economic justice,  civil rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The purpose of the SARR grant program is to support strategic collective action to advance rights-based change in Lebanon at the national level. LEB-CAAP’s priority for this grant program is to fund organizations that can identify and influence reforms in the defined thematic areas that are at a tipping point taking into consideration important changes in the socio-political context over the past few years. LEB-CAAP intends to meet the following objectives through this grant program:  

• Promote participatory, representative, and inclusive national policy processes at the tipping point of change. 
• Foster greater accountability of institutions and leaders to citizens and to the law. 

• Protect and promote universally recognized human rights through national advocacy actions. 
• Create opportunities and respond to youth-led mobilization and engagement in rights-based advocacy and change initiatives. 
• Strengthen the capacity of SARR grant recipients to deliver quality relevant programming and communicate effectively with stakeholders about project results.

LEB-CAAP anticipates awarding cost reimbursable grants up to $250,000 max each to be implemented over an 18–24-month period. Grants may be awarded to individual organizations and/or a network/consortium, but each network/consortium must designate a lead organization that will serve as the fiscal agent to be financially responsible for the award.

Thank you for participating in the solicitation workshops, attached you may find the questions and answers gathered during the workshops, and submitted through the Microsoft Office form previously provided. You can find the Q&A in addition to the online solicitation session recording on LEB-CAAP Page on Linktree using the following link Linktree. The online solicitation session recording can be also found on YouTube via the following link YouTube.

To learn more about SARR grant, please refer to the " Strategic Advocacy for Rights & Reforms in Lebanon RFA" attached under Related Documents in this post.

LEB-CAAP conducted the following solicitation workshops related to the SARR RFA as detailed below:

Solicitation Workshops

In-person solicitation workshop:

• Date: August 30, 2023
• Time: 10:30am-1.30pm

Online session

• Date: September 4, 2023
• Time: 10:30am-12:00pm.

The workshop will be held in Arabic and sign-language interpretation can be provided upon request.

Interested organizations are highly encouraged to attend and must register for the in-person or online sessions through the below links:

In-person Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/r/hEDXJ5Psp5

Online Registration Link: https://rb.gy/c0442