The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives – Ghana 2024 (Funding – $25,000 to $45,000 Canadian Dollars)

Deadline: 24th April 2024

The CFLI is a program designed to support small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries, which align with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priority areas for engagement.

The program is directed at projects conceived and designed predominantly by local partners. Projects are selected and approved by the relevant Canadian embassy or high commission. The CFLI also serves to support positive bilateral relations between Canada and recipient countries and their civil societies, by deepening contacts and supporting local endeavours.

Funding

The average CFLI contribution is $25,000 to $45,000 Canadian Dollars (CAD$100,000 is the maximum allocation amount for a project eligible under CFLI).

Thematic priorities

All projects must align with at least 1 of the following CFLI thematic priorities:

• Advancing electoral processes, democracy promotion, and human rights. Projects must have a strong focus to support and promote free, fair, and inclusive electoral processes, and enabling access and participation of women, youth and persons with disabilities in those processes.
• Projects may also focus on peace efforts and the prevention of electoral violence.

Gender-based analysis

In 2017, Canada adopted its Feminist International Assistance Policy to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as the most effective way to reduce poverty and build a more inclusive, peaceful and prosperous world. In alignment with this policy, the CFLI project application process now requires a gender-based analysis (GBA). The purpose of this change is to enhance the gender equality outcomes of the CFLI program.

A GBA will require applicants to:

• consider how women, girls, men, and boys are affected differently by the problem their project is aiming to address, ensuring, at the same time, that the project does not cause harm
• consult women and/or girls in the development of their project proposal
• ensure that the views of those women and/or girls inform the project’s design

Eligibility

Eligible recipients include:

• Local non-governmental, community and not-for-profit organizations,
• Local academic institutions working on local projects,
• International non-governmental organizations working on local development activities,
• Intergovernmental, multilateral and regional institutions, organizations and agencies working on local development activities,
• Municipal, regional or national government institutions or agencies of the recipient country working on local projects, and
• Canadian non-governmental and not-for-profit organizations that are working on local development activities.

Application Process 

• Proposals must be completed in English or French.
• Project proposals must explicitly answer all questions in the CFLI project application form, including the required gender-based analysis. The proposed project budget should summarize the proposed activities and associated costs.
• Applications will be assessed for approval on their merits by a selection committee.
• Due to the large number of applicants, only the successful candidates will be contacted.
• To obtain an application form, please contact Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) Project Application for Funding Form (.pdf, 249.15 KB) is currently not compatible with web browsers. Two solutions are available to you:
  • Saving the PDF to your computer. Instructions can be found on this page: Help: Forms in PDF format (eForms)
  • Requesting the application form in a Microsoft Word format by contacting the CFLI coordinator: ghanacfli@international.gc.ca

For more information.