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British Embassy Kathmandu, call for bids: LGBT+ Enabling Fund

The British Embassy in Kathmandu is inviting organisations to submit project proposals that support LGBT+ awareness, advocacy, and artistic expression in Nepal.

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Overview

The British Embassy in Kathmandu (BEK) has a small pot of funding to scale up our ambition to support LGBT+ awareness, advocacy, and artistic expression in Nepal. We will fund a maximum of 3 LGBT+ organisations across the following areas:

  • celebrating LGBT+ arts, culture, and expression: funding to showcase artist creativity and visibility
  • Catalytic Advocacy Fund: funding to focus on important advocacy work that will help shift the dial on promoting and expanding LGBT+ rights and awareness in Nepal
  • capability and awareness-raising activities: funding to provide trainings that will increase capability, awareness and understanding on LGBT+ rights, correct terminology and how to be a proactive ally in Nepal for organisations in the development sector including BEK

Timeframe

Activities must be carried out between 1 June 2024 and 31 March 2025.

Eligibility

Organisations must be officially registered, have registered bank account and can demonstrate their ability to deliver. Organisations must have in place policies and procedures to effectively manage fiduciary and safeguarding risks.

How to apply

Read more detail about this call for proposals in the terms of reference (ODT, 51.5 KB)

Organisations must email their completed project proposal form (ODT, 58 KB) and activity based budget template (ODS, 8.73 KB) to sally.duncan@fcdo.gov.uk and akriti.gautam@fcdo.gov.uk by 11:59pm GMT on 23 April 2024.

Contacts

For further information or queries contact:

Updates to this page

Published 8 April 2024
Last updated 8 April 2024 + show all updates
  1. Deadline extended for submitting bids. New deadline - 23 April 2024.

  2. First published.