Ghana - Apply for Commonwealth Education Fund (CEF)

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Procedure

Apply In-Person:

1. To Apply for Commonwealth Educational Fund (CEF), the applicant must go to the Scholarship Secretariat in Ghana contact link
2. Then, the applicant can get their application form.
3. Applicant has to enter all information in the application form.
4. Make sure that his/her have all the documents listed in the “Required Documents” section of this page.
5. Please refer to the fees details in the “Fees” section of this page. Pay the appropriate fees where the officials would start processing your application.
6. Completed application form must submit to the respective office.
7. Your grant proposal will contain everything about your project or what you intend to do with the funding you can avail from the government. One of the keys to learning how to apply for government grants is to learn to write a good grant proposal. Of course, your proposal will be the basis of the approval of your grant.
8. Although you are asking for funding, it can be impressive for any funding agency or, in this case, the government to see your part or your contribution in the attainment of that project. If you don't have an amount of cash as counterpart, then you can also present your labour and other resources as your budgetary counterpart in the fulfilment of the project. Of course, you don't have to everything to the funding you will receive.
9. If you lack requirements, all your efforts may be put to waste and your application denied. After you have submitted everything to the Education Trust Fund (CEF) or concerned agencies, you can now then wait for the notification of approval of your grant.
10. Generally, the processing time for this procedure is 6 weeks.

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Required Documents

• Application form
• Copies of registration of the institution.
• Bank details of the institution (proof)
• A letter from the ministry of education supporting the institution
• A copy of a document identifying the applicant
• Three recent passport photographs.
• Chart of prescribed fees.
• Cover letter from local Authorities
• Cover letter from the District Chief Executives from the Local District of origin.

Office Locations & Contacts

Location: Accra
Address: Ghana scholarship secretariat
Government office, Haile Selassie St, Accra, Ghana.
HR44+JH Accra, Ghana
Phone number: +233 30 290 7058
P.O Box. M 75, Accra, Ghana.
Telephone number- +233(0)302 662681
Fax -+233(0)302 662732
Email id – [email protected]
Location link
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Eligibility

• Education and child rights coalition networks, NGOs, CBOs, CSOs, Farm based organizations, Student union Teacher association and other civil society groups.

Fees

• A Fee for this procedure has to be paid as per authority request.

Validity

• Valid for 1 year depending on the Fund purpose.

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Processing Time

• The Processing time for this procedure is 6 weeks.

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Required Information

• Name of the applicant.
• Full name of applicant
• Full names of the organization
• Registration certificate of the organization.
• Audited reports of the organization.
• Sex, Age and marital status
• Your Nationality
• Proof of the organization existence
• Details of Accountability purposes
• Details of the project proposal.
• Duration of the Funding.
• Commencement and end dates of funding
• Amount of funds and other required Documents
• Bankers of the enrolling institution.

Need for the Document

This Fund is DIFD grant. It is used to provide support to community based groups, Agencies, institutions and networks or coalition working on education policies to achieve the following objectives.

• Strengthen civil society participation in design and implementation national and local educational plans and frameworks.
• Enable local communities to monitor government spending on education both at national and Local Levels.
• Support innovative ways for communities to ensure that all children especially girls and most vulnerable children are able to access quality education within a flame work of national educational fund plans in a way that links to advocacy work of national Level.

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