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Deadline: 5 April 2015 (Call opens from 9 March)

Fund for Gender Equality
English: http://bit.ly/1ArJHit
Español: http://bit.ly/1A721Zr
Français: http://bit.ly/18lT8pq

Grant size: US$ 200,000 to US$ 500,000 for 2 or 3 year programmes

Regions: Africa, Americas and the Caribbean, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia.

Description: The Fund welcomes proposal submissions from women-led local, national and regional Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) with innovative, high-impact, and multi-stakeholder women’s rights and gender equality programmes that help jumpstart progress on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

The SDGs will aim to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by ending all forms of discrimination; ending violence against women and girls; promoting universal access to sexual and reproductive health; effective participation and leadership in economic, political and public life; and greater recognition for unpaid domestic work. While recognizing the importance and inter-linkages of all these dimensions to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls, the Fund sets itself to focus on women’s economic and political empowerment as a means to complement existing UN-led efforts.

Eligibility/Requirements:
The Fund will grant applications in the areas of:

  • Women’s economic empowerment: Can include efforts to expand women’s equal opportunities to access and control economic resources, promote women’s sustainable entrepreneurship, access to decent work and equal pay, and shared responsibility within the household.
  • Women’s political empowerment: Can include efforts to promote women’s full and effective leadership and political participation at all levels of decision-making and in all spheres of life, or initiatives to help design, enforce and implement new and existing gender equality laws and policies, or to shift social norms and practices toward greater respect for and enjoyment of women’s equal rights.

Required quality elements: proposals should demonstrate all of the following to be considered for selection:

  • Linking Local Implementation Efforts to National and Regional Commitments: proposals that clearly identify how they will link local level interventions and/or service delivery to concrete law and policy commitments or advocacy agendas.
  • Rights-Based Approaches: proposals that clearly articulate how they will use rights-based approaches to advance women’s economic and political empowerment and ensuring the voices and needs of women, as rights-holders, are reflected in relevant legal frameworks and/or instruments they will engage.
  • Strategic Partnerships: proposals that demonstrate how CSOs will develop and maintain strong working partnerships that promote sustainability with government agencies and public  institutions at all levels, academic institutions, private sector actors, religious leaders, and other non-traditional partners.
  • Engaging Traditionally Excluded Groups: proposals that demonstrate a commitment to working with women and girls that are economically, politically, socially, culturally, or otherwise excluded, marginalized, and/or disempowered.

All applicant organizations must:

  • Be women-led CSOs including but not limited to: non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, trade unions or labor associations, agricultural collectives or associations, advocacy networks (national or regional), national or regional funds.
  • Have legal status with the competent national authority. CSO Networks must have legal status in at least one of the programme implementation countries. (DOCUMENTS REQUIRED)
  • Have a gender equality focus: The applicant must demonstrate experience implementing programmes on gender equality and/or women’s empowerment through an organizational resume or CV of past implementing experience and areas of expertise. (DOCUMENTS REQUIRED)
  • Be in a country of legal status and operation: Eligible OECD DAC list of ODA recipient countries only.
  • Have women leadership: Must have at least 50% women in its Board and its staff, with substantive representation of women in leadership positions. (DOCUMENTS REQUIRED)
  • Provide audit reports: Must have certified financial audit reports for 2-3 previous fiscal years – including 2012, 2013 ( and 2014 if available ) (DOCUMENTS REQUIRED)
  • Have endorsement: All applicants must submit at least one Letter of Endorsement from a gender equality or women’s empowerment mechanism, governmental authority on gender equality, or other multistakeholder institution (including UN offices other than UN Women) which is based in the same country as the applicant organization.

Application Methods: Complete and submit the online application form.
English Link: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/02/fund-for-gender-equality-...