Deadline: 1st March 24

The Secretariat of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (UNVFCFS) has launched the call for applications for 2025 .

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In accordance with General Assembly resolution 46/122, donations from the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (hereafter referred to as "the Fund") will be granted to extend, through established channels of assistance, aid humanitarian to individuals whose human rights have been seriously violated as a result of contemporary forms of slavery.

Contemporary forms of slavery that qualify for project grants include traditional slavery, serfdom, serfdom, serfdom, serfdom and serfdom. work forced labour, debt bondage, the worst forms of child labour, forced and early marriage, the sale of inherited wives and widows, trafficking in persons and human organs. sexual slavery, the sale of children commercial sexual exploitation of children in conflicts armed .

Projects addressing other human rights violations that exhibit the primary characteristics of ownership, control and violent coercion may also qualify for project grants, subject to the availability of funding.

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Information on financing

• Grants are awarded for a period of one year (from 1st January to 31st December) of the following year, in amounts ranging from 15,000 USD to 35,000 USD.

Election criteria

• As a general rule, only applications submitted by organisations are admissible civil society . Candidacies presented by governmental, parliamentary or administrative bodies, political parties and/or national liberation movements are inadmissible.
• Applications must be submitted in English, French or Spanish.

Criteria

• As a rule, only candidacies submitted by non-governmental organisations are admissible. Applications submitted by governmental, parliamentary or administrative bodies, political parties or national liberation movements are inadmissible.
• The Fund distinguishes between the following categories of applicant organisations:
  • First-time applicants: organisations that have never received a grant from the Fund;
  • Returning applicants: organisations that have received a grant from the Fund in the past, but not in the previous year;
  • Ongoing applicants: organisations currently receiving a grant from the Fund, divided into two sub-categories:
    • organisations submitting a proposal to continue a funded project in the same country of implementation;
    • organisations presenting a different project in the same country of implementation or a project in a different country of implementation.
• As a general rule, organisations should only submit one application in each call for proposals. The project for which funding is sought may meet the needs of more than one target group.
• In order to avoid retaining fees on the resources channelled and to maintain control over their use, the Fund does not, as a rule, authorise re-granting to another organisation.
• Priority in the awarding of grants is given to projects aimed at the reparation, empowerment and integration of victims of contemporary forms of slavery through the provision of direct assistance. Assistance can include medical, psychological, social, legal, humanitarian, educational, training professional or skills training or other support for their subsistence independent . The Board may, from time to time, determine areas of focus in relation to the annual calls for applications.
• Project beneficiaries must be victims of contemporary forms of slavery and, where applicable, members of their families. Projects may include components aimed at preventing the re-victimisation of assisted victims.
• Grants for projects cannot serve the purpose of direct financial compensation to victims.
• As a general rule, the Fund will not support the capital costs of construction projects (e.g. for the building of shelters, schools, etc.).
• Projects must take into account the need to include victims in society and their rights to dignity, safety and security. education .

For more information, visit Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights .