The Open Grant Scheme provides support for SSAs’ ground-up projects that can help them in strengthening capabilities and capacities, including innovative, collaborative and ground-up sector development projects. We will give more weight to joint proposals that SSAs plan to develop and implement in collaboration with others in the sector, and which will benefit the sector as a whole.

Common guidelines would be:

• Applications must serve to meet the objective of the CCT which is to advance and improve the ability of SSAs to deliver social services to benefit the community.

• Demonstrable outcomes of capabilities being enhanced through qualitative and quantitative improvements

• Capacity-building projects are to have deliverables that result in more service-users being served, or better-served through infrastructure enhancements.