One World Week Mini Grants

NYCI Development Education

One World Week Mini Grants

Application Form2017

One World Week:November 18th– 26th2017

Theme: Peace, Justice & the Sustainable Development Goals

Focus on:The 17 Sustainable Development (Global) Goals and in particular Goal 16as a way of learning about Peace & Justice

Examples of potential topics that your project can focus on:health and well-being, conflict, trafficking, democracy, peace, voting, combating terrorism and crime, illicit financial and arms flows, nuclear disarmament, violence, human rights, access to justice, corruption and bribery, trust in public institutions, access to information, gender equality in parliament, working together to bring about a better, safer world.

Applications should address issues from political, economic, technological, environmental and cultural viewpoints. Also, from a personal, local, national and global perspective – PLiNGs!

Background:The Sustainable Development Goals: and

Mini-grants for activities and events related to One World Week are now available from NYCI. Grant applications of up to a maximum of €250will be considered. The deadline for receipt of your application at NYCI offices is Friday 22nd September. Applications will not be considered after this date. If you have arranged OWW training for after this deadline, you can still apply for a mini-grant in advance.

Please note:

Regionaltraining in 2017 is available (contact )

Please indicate if you are interested in participating in regional OWW training with NYCI in 2017: YES  NO 

Our main One World Week event takes place in Dublin on Thursday, November 23rd. Sign up to attend via: Please keep this date free so you can attend as it is expected that those funded under the mini grants scheme will take an active part in this event.Please indicate if you will attend the YOUth Summit YES  NO 

If you are organising a local event during One World Week in your community, please send us the date, time and location as soon as possible so that it can be advertised on our One World Week website and in case NYCI staff are available to attend

We welcome in particular activities and materials that have a web/film based element

Please ensure visibility of your local event in local media, online and through any other promotional channels available to your group. A toolkit on working with media during OWW will be provided by NYCI to grant recipients. All publicity must include the wording “This is a One World Week Project with the support of the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI)”

Please use recycled material wherever possible for arts-based activities

NYCI will not fund the purchase of any materials such as T-shirts, baseball caps, etc to be used in the creation of local actions for One World Week

Application Form

Name of Organisation: ______

Contact Person: ______

Role in Organisation: ______

Contact Address: ______

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Tel: ______Email: ______

Social Media Accounts: ______

Title of your proposed OWW project: ______

Have you participated in One World Week before? YES  NO 

Please give a short profile of your organisation (including type of youth work, main target groups and details of any development education work undertaken previously):

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Describe your proposed One World Week project (including details of when it will take place, who will be involved, how many will be involved, the methodologies proposed, linking local and global issues, and the outcomes you hope to achieve):

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Please provide an outline of how you intend to spend the OWW grant

(N.B: We will consider applications up to a maximum of €250. The amount awarded will depend on the quality of the application & project):

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Signed: ______Date: ______

Please forward applications to: One World Week, NYCI, 3 Montague Street, Dublin 2 or via email to

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