Ethnic Communities Innovation Fund

The Ethnic Communities Innovation Fund (ECIF) supports organisations across Aotearoa New Zealand to prevent family and sexual violence in ethnically diverse communities. Please note that we use the Ministry for Ethnic Community's definition to describe ‘ethnic communities'.

ECIF aims to promote the safety and wellbeing of ethnically diverse people by supporting community-driven initiatives for preventing family and sexual violence. The fund supports ethnic communities to develop and deliver solutions and activities for safe, healthy, and diverse ethnic families and communities.

ECIF also offers opportunities to pilot a range of family and sexual violence prevention approaches and activities with ethnic communities across Aotearoa. This will grow the evidence base of what works to support the safety and wellbeing of ethnically diverse people.

The ECIF is a time-limited, one-off funding opportunity for 12 months.

Ethnic Communities Innovation Fund is now closed for application.

More information

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has recently established The Ethnic Communities Violence Prevention (ECVP) work programme, which is an initiative aimed at addressing violence within ethnic communities.

Please visit Ethnic Communities Violence Prevention for more information on the trials and other activities related to the programme.

Contact

To find out more about ECIF, please email the MSD team at ecvp@msd.govt.nz.