Deadline: 31 January 2012
Open to: NGOs, government agencies with the good ideas to improve road safety conditions in the middle-income and low-income countries
Grant: Up to a maximum of US$30,000 per project

Description

The Road Safety Fund is launching a small grants programme to support non-profit road safety actors (e.g. NGOs, government agencies) in middle-income and low-income countries.

The Road Safety Fund is looking for projects that will make a demonstrable and sustainable contribution towards the achievement of the Goal of the Decade of Action: to save five million lives by 2020. The Small Grant funding is intended to enable and catalyse practical activity. For example, you may need financial assistance for a national workshop to build support for road safety standards or legislation; perhaps you want to run a pilot awareness campaign for seat belt or helmet wearing as the first step to a national program and need some seed-funding to help get it started; or maybe you are forming a coalition of organisations and government agencies to advocate for tougher drink drive laws and want help with start-up costs. Please note that there is currently limited funding available and not all applications will be successful.

Grant

Up to a maximum of US$30,000 per project. The Small Grants Programme is enabled with the generous support of Allianz, Bosch, Guinea Alumina, Innovate Solutions and Vinci Autoroutes Fondation.

Eligibility

To be considered for funding, applicants must:

i. Be governmental or non-profit organisations with a track record in road injury prevention activities or related fields;
ii. Ensure project proposals:

• are aligned with the Global Plan for the Decade of Action;contribute to road injury reduction in middle-income and/or low income countries;
• demonstrate a catalysing effect, for example by:

- encouraging and enabling institutional capacity development including, where applicable, legislation and enforcement of road injury risk factors;
- building sustainable national or local partnerships and campaigns to practically address specific road injury risk factors, e.g. seat belt, helmet or drink driving coalitions;
- developing strategies to sustain activities over the medium and long term, for example by using the project to leverage additional public/private sector funding;
- demonstrating potential transferability of your activity to other regions/countries;

• include measurable outputs and objectives;

iii. Accept, understand and meet their obligations under the UK Bribery Act 2010;

How to apply?

Application procedure is following:

i. Application form: applicants must use the application form (click here) which must be completed in English and returned by hard copy;
ii. Acknowledgement: Applications received will be acknowledged by e-mail within 10 working days;
iii. Deadline: the deadline for receipt of 2012 applications will be Tuesday 31st January 2012.
iv. Project approval: The Expert Advisory Committee of the Road Safety Fund will review project applications and approve all small grant programme funding decisions.
v. Notice of decision: The Secretariat will notify all successful and unsuccessful applicants within 10 working days of the Expert Advisory Committee decision;
vi. Grant Agreement: successful applicants will be required to complete the FIA Foundation’s grant agreement;
vii. Payment & reporting: grants will be paid in instalments. The first instalment will be paid on signing of the grant agreement. Any subsequent instalments will be paid upon receipt of satisfactory activity and expenditure reports, as required in the grant agreement.

Organisations and projects funded through the small grants programme will be communicated via the Road Safety Fund website and annual report, and any relevant ad hoc publications. Organisations in receipt of funding will be required to acknowledge the support of the Road Safety Fund in any communications relating to their project. Please send your filled application via post to:

Road Safety Fund
Small Grants Programme
c/o FIA Foundation
60 Trafalgar Square
London WC2N 5DS
United Kingdom

Contacts

Please e-mail the Small Grants Programme at info@roadsafetyfund.org if you have questions relating to your proposed application.

The Official Website

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.