CIVIL SOCIETY CHALLENGE FUND

CIVIL SOCIETY CHALLENGE FUND: The Civil Society Challenge Fund (CSCF) – Department for International Development (DFID) is open to any UK-based non-profit group, organisation or network/alliance/coalition, which shares DFID’s goal of eradicating poverty. Applicants must show that they have established links with partners in developing countries. Applicants do not have to be organisations whose primary purpose is overseas development. The Fund is expected to contribute to the achievement of the internationally agreed International Development Target to reduce by half of those living in extreme poverty by 2015. The Fund’s overall aim is to increase the proportion of poor people in developing countries able to understand and demand their rights – civil, political, economic, and social – and to improve their economic and social well-being. Activities funded should be linked explicitly to this.