Call for Active Citizen - Organizations

Overview of the global programme

The British Council is offering grants to up to 4 Iraqi organisations (Minimum 1 works on disability related programmes) to enable them to take part in the Active Citizens Iraq Programme Cycle 2018-2019.

Active Citizens is a social leadership training programme that promotes intercultural dialogue and community led-social development. Through the programme, we bring together people with different beliefs and perspectives to learn from and share with each other. We work with partner organisations around the world to deliver and develop the Active Citizens programme. Delivery partners work closely with local facilitators that British Council select and train on the skills they need to deliver the Active Citizens training to others.

Following their training, they use the Active Citizens toolkit to design and deliver the training programme to participants in their local communities around the world.

Participants receive the tools and support they need to set up or adapt the way they run their own social action projects to tackle a social issue within their community.

Communities are connected globally through international opportunities to share learning and ideas as well as through the website and social media.

Active Citizens was launched in 2009 and has run in over 40 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, South and East Asia, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK.

The programme is owned and managed globally by the British Council. It is funded and delivered in partnership with a wide range of organisations that work internationally, as well as at a national and local level.

Contacting us

Please read the guidance notes fully before attempting to complete the application form. If however you do have a question which has not been addressed in the guidance notes, please email us at Mariam.madhat@britishcouncil.org

We regret that we are not able to read through draft applications.

Submitting your application

Applications must be word processed and completed in English or Arabic. They must be e-mailed along with scanned copies of supporting documents to Omar.Ibrahim@britishcouncil.org by:

12:00 PM on Thursday 19 April 2018