What is the RIVA GEDSI TA and Grants Facility?
There are two core opponents to the programme: the TA Facility and the Grants Facility. The demand-led GEDSI TA Facility sets out to strengthen and implement GEDSI transformative initiatives across the British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK) portfolio, including improving GEDSI mainstreaming outcomes, supporting better coherence on GEDSI, and GEDSI capacity strengthening of implementing partners, civil society organisations (CSOs), and government. TA includes supporting the drafting of GEDSI action plans and strategies, providing training on GEDSI and safeguarding and undertaking a synthesis of BEK’s portfolio on GEDSI.
The Grants Facility aims to support small grassroots organisations and individual local leaders and change makers that are working to advance the rights of marginalised groups. Our model is to provide accompaniment support throughout the grant cycle to help grant partners to be strategic and catalytic and to make connections with likeminded organisations. The grant-making process is simple and user-friendly - processes are designed to ensure equitable access for smaller or historically excluded CSOs, networks, and informal groups.
Further information
The programme has also supported BEK to set up an Inclusive Local Leadership Advisory Committee that is made up of diverse set of members who represent different marginalised people and groups, through a combination of those with technical/practitioners’ GEDSI experience and those with lived experiences. By bringing in external voices from a “whole of society” perspective, the Committee will ensure that diverse voices and perspectives are consulted, thereby improving the quality of delivery and results across BEK’s portfolio, and serving as an accountability function for BEK toward marginalised people and groups.
Central to the programmes approach is our ongoing Gender, Inclusion, Power and Politics (GIPP) analysis, GEDSI and Safeguarding Strategies and our Equitable Partnerships Approach.
Our Team
- Programme Director: Emma Haegeman, Head of Governance and Inclusive Societies Portfolio
- Team Leader: Srijana Chettri
- Programme Manager: Josh Lynes, Programme Manager
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