Name of the Donor
UNDP

Name of the Scheme
ICARE / UNDP Small Grants Scheme

Objectives
To support and create employment opportunities and to support sustainable livelihjooks for bothy men and women, through sustainable use of natural resources, targetinhg community level assistance.

Project Areas

• Forest and Trees
• Marine
• Resources
• Food Security and Nutrition
• Sustainable Tourism

Eligible Recipients
Proposers consist of:

• the recipient (community group or organisation), and
• the advisory organisation (relebant government department or an NGO)

Abailable Funds Per Projects
Desired level of grant in the range of:

• USD$5,000 to
• USD$10,000
• Exceptionally up to USD$15,000

Ineligible Budget Items
Capital for administration and transport, infrastructure, roads, building, water supply, etc; Administration costs, office support, salaries, wages and labour costs; Recurrent costs; Study tours. Projects which have a negative impact on environment are ineligible.

For More Details Contact:
UNDP Port Moresby

Name of the Scheme
Small Grants Scheme (SGS) / Australian Community Assistance Program (ACAP / Australian Community Assistance Scheme (ACAS)

Objectives
To promote economic and social development through direct assistance to small-scale community development. To supplement efforts and activities of local communities to help themselves.

Project Areas
Priority consideration given to activities which focus on basic needs i.e.,

• Health
• Education
• Rural
• Development
• Environment

Eligible Recipients
Local communities / organisations

Abailable Funds Per Project
Varies by country

Ineligible Budget Items
Varies by country

For More Details Contact
Australian High Commission

Name of the Scheme
Human Rights Small Grants Scheme (HR-SGS)

Objectives
To strengthen domestic infrastructures that promote and protect human rights. The HR-SGS may complement other often much larger interventions in the area of human rights implemented through the Australian Government's bilateral and regional aid programs.

Project Areas
Human rights

Elitgible Recipients
Organisations,preferably non-governmental, (but not exculuding government bodies) that are involved in the defence of human rights. Proposals from individuals are not eligivle. Preference will be given to proposals from agencies that have a proven track record of activity in the sector and / or country concerned, and which are financially accountable.

Available Funds Per Project
HR-SGS proposals should be small scale, i.e. up to a limit of $50, 000 per annum. Proposals for joint or partial funding will be considered. Projects for longer than 12 months may also be considered where an organisation can justify its continuation for more than 12 months.

Ineligible Budget Items
Anything outside human rights promotion.

For More Details Contact
Australian High Commission

Name of the Scheme
Canada Fund

Objectives
To work in partnership supporting local initiatives that provide people with the means to help themselves, within the 6 priority areas.

Project Areas

• Basic human needs (e.g, water supply and sanitation, health care, and education)
• Women in development
• Human rights and good governance
• Small business development
• Environment

Eligible Recipients
Community groups, non-governmental organisations, schools. Requests from communities may be channelled through government departments.

Available Funds Per Project
Cdn$1,000 - Cdn$20,000 with a maximum limit of Cdn$50,000.

Ineligible Budget Items
Scholarships, recurrent costs, per diems, attendance at conferences with no clear purpose or held outside the Pacific region.

For More Details contact:
Canadian High Commission

Name of the Scheme
Grant Assistance for Grassroots Projects (GGP)

NZODA
Small Projects Fund / Community-based Organisations Fund / Small Capital Assistance Fund / NGO Small Projects Fund / Gender and Development (name & foucs vary by country)

Objectives
Varies by country

Project Areas
Varies by country and programme

Eligible Recipients
Varies by country and programme

Abailable Funds Per Project
Varies by country and programme

Ineligible Budget Items
Varies by country and programme

For More Details Contact:
New Zealand High Commission

Name of the Scheme
Pacific Islands Investment and Development Scheme (PIID's)

Objectives
Encourage private sector development / create employment and exonomic growth / encourage NZ private sector investment / facilitate the transfer of knowledge from NZ to the Pacific islands / facilitate growth in size and capacity, of the Pacific islands private sector

Project Areas
Private sector industry

Eligible Recipients
Private sector organisations / companies / individuals.

Available Funds Per Project
Feasibility study NZD$10,000 / equity grant NZD$75,000 / Training NZD$25,000 / advisory mission NZD$15,000 / trainig needs analysis NZD$10,000.

Ineligible Budget Items

For More Details Contact:
New Zealand High Commission

Name of the Scheme
Pacific Islands Initiative for the Environment (PIE)

Objectives
To provide support to Pacific island societies to better manage their environments.

Project Areas

Eligible Recipients
community groups / local or national government bodies / non-governmental organisations.

Available Funds Per Project

Ineligible Budget Items

For More Details Contact:
New Zealand High Commission

Name of the Scheme
Good Governance Programme

Objectives
Promote, sustain and support human development / promotion and protection of human rights / strengthening participatory development, at regional, national and local levels.

Project Areas

Eligible Redipients
NZ organisations or individual, developing country organisation or individual.

Available Funds Per Project

Ineligible Budget Items

For More Details Contact:
New Zealand High Commission

Name of the Scheme
Small Grant Scheme

Objectives
The elimination of poverty and encouragement of economic growth through sustainable development.

Project Areas

• policies and actions which promote sustainable livelihoods
• better education, helath and opportunities for poor people
• Protection and better management of the natural and physical environment

Eligble Recipients
Public and private sectors, Civil Society Organisations (NGOs and grassroots organisations, communities, etc.)

Available Funds Per Project
Varies by country and programme

Ineligible Budget Items
Projects with military organisations are not permitted. Training may only be provided when the Small Grant Scheme provides the only official UK assistance.

For More Details Contact:
British High commission

Name of the Scheme
Small Grant Scheme

Objectives
To provide small amounts of funding to NGOs and civil society organisations to undertake work at the country level relative to the objective of the Response to HIV/AIDS project. To support pilot testing at the grassroots or community level of approaches and policy options.

Project Areas

• To raise awareness and understanding of the development causes and consequences of the spread of HIV/AIDS
• To enhance the capacity to respond in an effective, multi-sectoral and sustaniable manner
• Assist in the implementation of strategy for the prevention of AIDS/STD

Eligible Recipients
Civil Society Organisations (including NGOs academic instituions, etc.) working in socio-economic development and HIV-related issues.

Available Funds Per Project
Preferred in the range of USD$2,000 to 6,000, but exceptionally up to USD30,000.

Ineligible Budget Items
Preference will be given to proposals which will expand the response to HIV/AIDS, link up NGOs which have participated in the MacFArlene Burnet Centre (MBC) / UNAIDS / SPC Strategic Planning process, and / or the AIDS Task Force of Fiji (ATFF) capacity building process.

For More Details Contact:
UNDP Port Moresby

Name of the Scheme
TeleFood Special Fund (TSF)

Objectives
To finance small projects which aim at providing direct assistance to farmers and other inhabitants of village and rural communitiies, with women being and important specific target group, in launching of self-contained food production activities generating income for the rural poor.

Project Areas

• Crop production (cereals, roots and tubers, vegetables and frutis)
• Samll animal production (poultry, small ruminants and pigs)
• Fish production (small fish culture and improvement of artisanal fisheries)

Eligible Recipients
Communities, farmers, villages (the beneficiaries are encouraged to organise themselves into an association)

Availabe Funds Per Project
Preferred about USD$5,000, should not exceed USD$10,000.

Ineligible Budget Items
Mission costs of supervisors, seminars or other training activities, or production of booklets and manuals. Projects should not aim at introducting new complex technologies.

For More Details Contact:
FAO Sub-regional office, Apia, SAMOA

Name of the Scheme
Small Island States Development Fund

Objectives
To promote development in public and private sectors.

Project Areas
Short-term development oriented practical attachments of up to three months in a range of technical and income generating fields.

Eligible Recipients
Public and private sectors, NGOs, grassroots organisations, communities, etc.

Availabe Funds Per Project

Ineligible Budget Items

For More Details Contact:
FAO Sub-regional office, Apia, SAMOA

Name of the Scheme
Short Term Advisory Service

Objectives
To assist Forum Island Countries to meet priority economic development needs.

Project Areas
Consultancies in a wide range of development related areas within the Secretariat's mandate, e.g. public sector reform and private sector development activities.

Eligible Recipients
Public and privite sectors, NGOs, grassroots organisations etc.

Available Funds Per Project

Ineligible Budget Items

For More Details Contact:
South Pacific Forum (SPF)

Name of the Scheme
Marketing Support Fund

Objectives
To assist small businesses wishing to initiate exports of their products, to inter-regional and extra-regional markets.

Project Areas
Mardeting Support

Eligible Recipients
Public and private sectors, NGOs, grassroots organisations, communities, etc.

Abailabe Funds Per Projects
Up to total maximum of FJD$8,000

Ineligible Budget Itmes

For More Details Contact:
South Pacific Forum (SPF)

Name of the Scheme
Small Grants Scheme

Objectives
Natinal capacity building and awareness traising activities

Project Areas
Environment

Eligible Recipients
Government Departments, Non-government Organisations, and Community Groups.

Available Funds Per Project
Preferred in the range of USD$1,000 to USD$5,000, exceptionally up to UDS$10,000.

Ineligible Budget Items
Budget items area assessed on their relative merits to achieve the project objectives.

For More Details Contact:
SPREP, Apia, Samoa

Name of the Scheme
Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP)

Objectives
To support and promote community level initiatives that address global environmental challenges.

Project Areas

• Biodiversity Conservation;
• Climate Change;
• Prevention of Global Warming;
• Protection of International Waters; and
• Those that combat land degradation, desertification, and deforestation as they relate to the focal area.

Eligible Recipients
NGOs, Community Based Organisations (CBOs), Research Institutions, Foundations, Associations, etc.

Available Funds Per Project
USD$1,000 to USD50,000

Ineligible Budget Items
Salsries / wages for consultants

For More Details Contact:
UNDP Port Moresby

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