Deadline: 10 February 2020

The Prince Claus Fund is currently inviting cultural organisations for its 2020 Network Partnership Grant.

With the Network Partnership Grant, the Fund aims to create a stable international network of strong and relevant cultural/arts organisations that enables structural stability for the organisations themselves. This year the Fund is inviting cultural organisations that are based and working within the eligible countries, and that have established track-records and networks, to propose a project plan they would like to carry out over the next 3 years. The Prince Claus Fund seeks to support ground-breaking, innovative cultural initiatives by outstanding cultural organisations that have a positive impact on their communities through the arts.

The Fund works together with successful applicants from the conceptualisation of the partnership activities to the implementation of its projects. It is a partnership which goes beyond financial support and thrives on the creative ideas and dialogue generated between the Fund and its Partners.

Objectives

The objectives of the Network Partnership Grant are to:

• • Facilitate a global network that supports local activities of cultural organisations who work on freedom of expression; enabling regular exchange, cooperation and knowledge sharing with other like-minded organisations from other parts of the world.
  • Strengthen the capabilities and structural sustainability of these cultural organisations through financial support and by connecting them to a wider network of the Fund in order to optimise their work, outreach and impact in their regions of operation and beyond.

• Enable new local cultural initiatives that generate participation, talent development and empower local communities to express themselves.

Components

The Network Partnership Grant has two main components:

• The development of a three-year Network Partnership Plan of Activities.
• Participation in the Prince Claus Fund Network Partnership Annual Meetings.

Grant Information

The Network Partnership Grant is a total funding of 50,000 EUR to be distributed over 3 years.

Eligibility Criteria

• • Eligible candidates are cultural/arts organisations that are working in the field of arts and culture and development, the eligible countries are listed below.
  • Applying organisations must have experience functioning for at least 5 years. Applications from public institutions will not be accepted.

• Former Network Partnership grantees of the Prince Claus Fund may not reapply.

Because of gender inequality in the arts and culture field, the fund welcomes and prioritise applications by organisations whose work addresses gender issues and whose work empowers women through the arts. Also, they welcome and prioritise applications by organisations whose work addresses and/or is related to LGBTQI issues and empowerment through the arts.

Eligible Countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, North Macedonia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Saint Helena, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Wallis and Futuna, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

For more information, visit https://princeclausfund.org/call-prince-claus-fund-network-partnership