(Budget up to DKK 65,000 (In Case of a Single Pre-Study)

Danish Disability Fund

Application

A: pre-study

(Budget up to DKK 65,000 (in case of a single pre-study) /

DKK 110,000 in case of several partners or a programme)

1. Cover page

Guide to the application form

The application form consists of four parts:

Part 1.Cover page

Basic information about the applicant(s) and the suggested pre-study.

Part 2.Narrative application

Description of the pre-study and (to the extent possible) the envisaged project. The application should follow the structure of the format, and must be written in a manner which can be understood by an external reader without prior knowledge of the context, project or applicant.

Each question comes with a guiding text and/or sub-questions written in italics, on a coloured background, and demarcated by square brackets [...].This guiding text must be deleted before the application is submitted. Alternatively, the application can be written in a ‘CLEAN’ version of the application format without any explanatory text.

The narrative application should not exceed 10 standard pages.

Part 3.Budget summary

The main items of the budget drawn up for the pre-study.Please note that the budget summary must be elaborated upon in an Annex using the ‘A:Pre-study Budget format’.

Part 4.List of annexes

A list of the obligatory and supplementary annexes underpinning the application.

Please also note that:

The application should, to the extent possible, be drawn up in cooperation between the south partner and the Danish applicant organisation. An explanatory document must therefore be available in a language understood by the South partner. The actual application to the Danish Disability Fund, however, can only be submitted in Danish or English.

Submit application to:

The signed application including annexes must be submitted in one print copy to:

Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark (Danske Handicaporganisationer)

Department for International Cooperation

Blekinge Boulevard 2, DK-2630 Taastrup, Denmark

Moreover, both application and annexes must be emailed to:

2. Narrative application

1. Who are the potential south partner(s)?

(suggested length 1-3pages)

1.a Previous experience of cooperation with the South partner(s)

[Please also explain:

• For how long has there been contact between the partners?
• Have the Danish organisation and the South partner(s) carried out interventions together before? If yes describe which and which significant experiences and results are being brought into the continued cooperation?]

Is the partnership between the Danish applicant and the South partner organisation known to the Danish Disability Fund, i.e. described in (an)other application(s) in previous years?

Does the project lie within the partners’ normal field of work?

[If no,please describe and justify the relevance of the new working area(s) in view of the organisations’ previous experience of cooperation.]

1.b The South partner(s)

[Describe your knowledge of the South organisation(s) with which you are considering writing a project application and forging a partnership.

-Briefly outline the organisation’s experience and capacity as regards implementation of the project which the pre-study is expected to result in (e.g. familiarity with local conditions, specialised sector knowledge, long-standing relations with stakeholders, or the like) and the qualifications of relevant employees/members.

-If you have not cooperated with the envisaged partner(s) before, please explain how you have identified the partner(s), and upon which criteria and what knowledge you base your assessment that the organisation concerned could be a potential partner.]

1. The pre-study (suggested length 3-5pages)

2.a The preparatory process

[Briefly outline the preparatory process.

• How did the idea for the envisaged project arise?
• Who has taken part in the planning of the pre-study, including what has been the role of the (potential) South partner and of the Danish organisation(s)?

If this is a re-submission, which initiatives or studies have been conducted in response to the rejection of the previous version of the application?]

2.b Objective of the pre-study

[Describe which issues are to be clarified in connection with the pre-study.]

2.cParticipants in the pre-study

[Briefly describe who will contribute to the pre-study, andexplain their participation, including:

• Who will form part of the pre-study team?
• What istheir affiliation to, respectively, the Danish and the South partner?
• What will be their role in the pre-study?
• Which qualifications do they have of relevance to the realisation of the pre-study?

In case local consultants are used in connection with the pre-study, please describe each consultant’s qualifications as well as the roles/tasks that he or she will be responsible for within the team.

Please attach CVs for each participant from the Danish organisation and for any local consultant(s) (Annex B). ]

2.d Contents and expected results of the pre-study

[Outline the contents of the pre-study, including:

• Main activities to be undertaken as part of the pre-study.
• Division of roles between the partners before, during and after the pre-study.
• Working methods (e.g. workshops, focus group interviews, field visits), which the pre-study team will use, to substantiate the analyses to be carried out.
• Specific outputs (e.g. analyses) which the pre-study is expected to produce?

1. Which changes will a coming project aim for?(suggested length 2-3 pages)

[Since an upcoming project must be designed in cooperation with the South partner(s), the Danish organisation is not expected to come up with detailed information about a future project. However, the Danish organisation is expected to have some ideas and expectations as to what future cooperation might involve, and these ideas should be based on a certain level of knowledge of the local situation and of the partner, possibly based on information from third parties. This is what should be set out in this part of the application.

If there are questions below which are not possible to answer at this point in time, section 2 above should outline how you plan to use the pre-study to clarify these matters.]

3.a What is the context?

[It is important to have a good understanding of the context in which the envisaged project will take place. The context description will be more detailed in a possible future project description, but here please very briefly describe:

• The overall context in the country or countries.
• Local conditions within the subject or focus area which the project is intended to address.]

3.b What are the challenges?

[Describe the challenges or main issues on which the envisaged project will focus, as well as the causes that have led to the challenges.]

3.c Objectives

[Describe the overall objectives of the envisaged project.]

3.d Target group – among whom do you aim to achieve change?

[Please briefly describe the target groups for the project. Focus first and foremost on the primary target group, which the project will specifically be targeting, both rights-holders, who will be involved in and directly benefit from the intervention, as well asduty-bearers, who will play an important role in bringing about the desired change.]

3.e Strategy

[Briefly describe what kind of interventions (e.g. advocacy, capacity-building, organisational development, strategic service delievery, information, etc.) the project will make use of, and what is expected to be the balance between them.]

3. Budget summary

Please provide a summary of the main budget items below.

A detailed budget with notes must be submitted in AnnexA using the ‘A:‘Pre-study – budget format’.In case of applying for disability compensation, this must be set out in a separate tab in the budget format.

See also DPOD’s “Guide to the preparation of budgets for the Danish Disability Fund” (in Danish).

The numbering of the main budget lines below may not always be continuous. This is due to the Disability Fund making use of the same overall budget lines (1-15) across different funding modalities, with the budget summary below only including budget lines of relevance to this funding modality.

Exchange rate used: ______

4. Annexes

1. OBLIGATORY ANNEXES

1. Budget format
2. CVs of Danish participants and of local consultants, if any
3. Preliminary programme for the pre-study

1. SUPPLEMENTARY ANNEXES

Examples of supplementary annexes are reports or analyses that directly substantiate the objectives and rationale of your intervention. Only attach annexes that are of crucial importance to understanding or assessing the capacity building intervention.

Please note:

• All annexes should be submitted by both post and email along with the application.

• All annexes should be submitted in a format that allows for easy photocopying (i.e. no magazines, books or newspaper cuttings, but A4-sized copies of relevant excerpts thereof).

• In addition to the above mentioned annexes, all Danish member organisations engaged in development cooperation and applying for funding from the Disability Fund must submit the following documents by email to DPOD once a year:

• Statutes of the Danish organisation
• Annual report
• Audited annual accounts
• Updatedversion of the organisation’s development cooperation profile (U-landsprofil)

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Application – A: Pre-study – DANISH DISABILITY FUND (Oct. 2015)

[1] In the case of grants below DKK 100,000, the Danish Disability Fund’s contribution is DKK 1000.

In the case of grants above DKK 100,000, the Danish Disability Fund’s contribution is DKK 2000.