The Inter-American Development Bank is inviting civil society groups to submit proposals for projects promoting poverty reduction and social development in 26 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.   The IDB-administered Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction will sponsor the projects. A winning project in a single community will receive $300,000, while one for several communities within a country will be awarded $1.5 million. According to the bank, the requested funding shoul...

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 U.N. Women is inviting governments and non-governmental organizations to apply for grants that will promote political and economic empowerment of women in Arab states. This is the first of two grant-making cycles under the Fund for Gender Equality, which has allotted $16 million for the 2011-2012 period. The second round will cover proposals from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. For this cycle, the fund is devotin...

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  The U.K. Department for International Development is now accepting proposals for projects that can help accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, particularly those that are most off the track, such as maternal and child health.   The application period for the second grant round under the Global Poverty Action Fund’s Impact Window ends Sept. 19, 2011.   The Impact Window targets nonprofits registered in the United Kingdom and 28 developing ...

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  The same corporate models that have driven Asia’s economic boom are now spurring the dramatic growth of the region’s non-governmental organizations, providing a promising alternative for plugging the funding gap left by North American and European aid donors that are still reeling from the impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis and leaning toward more conservative policies.   By applying low-end manufacturing models of slashing administrative and personnel cost...

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