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Trust Fund to End Violence against Women

2015 Call for Proposals

English link: http://www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/un-trust-fund-to-end-violence-agai...
Español: http://www.unwomen.org/es/trust-funds/un-trust-fund-to-end-violence-agai...
Français: http://www.unwomen.org/fr/trust-funds/un-trust-fund-to-end-violence-agai...

Countries: See DAC list: http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/daclist

Deadline: 29 January 2015 to submit a brief concept note

Grant size:

• For large civil society organizations and governments: minimum of US $ 300,000 to a maximum of US$ 1 million total for duration of two-three years projects.
• For small civil society organizations, especially grassroots women’s organizations and youth-led organizations: minimum US$ 50,000 to a maximum of US$ 100,000 regardless of the size of their annual organizational budget for duration of two-three years projects.

Description:
The UN Women has announced the 2015 Call for Proposals for the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. This fund supports actions to prevent and end violence against women and girls. The UN Trust Fund is a global multi-lateral mechanism supporting national efforts to end one of the most widespread human rights violations in the world. It focuses on supporting the implementation of national and local laws, policies and action plans by expanding the quality and quantity of support available for on-the-ground and results based implementation of effective programmes.

Grant proposals might consider:
• Developing specific strategies for primary prevention of violence against women and girls
• Ensuring survivors’ access to justice
• Empowering women to understand and claim their rights and mobilizing communities on ‘zero tolerance’
• Responding to the needs and rights of especially excluded and underserved groups
• Securing strategic policy commitments and budgets for implementation
• Enlisting relatively ‘new’ actors who have a critical, but largely untapped, role to play in preventing and addressing violence against women and girls
• Supporting the implementation of international and regional human rights instruments
• Overall, supporting capacity development of implementers of national and local laws, policies and action plans, at inter-sectoral and sectoral levels.

Eligibility:
Applicants from, or working in, countries and/or territories in the “List of Eligible Countries”, as follows
Civil society organizations and networks, including non-governmental organizations that are legally registered in the country of implementation.

• Regional/international civil society organizations and networks that have national presence in the country(ies) and/or territory(ies) of implementation. In this case, the proposal must indicate how the proposed interventions will contribute to national capacity development and ownership of national and local organizations in the implementation.
• Operational research/evaluation institutions specialized in gender equality and gender-based violence.
• Government authorities at central/national, sub-national and/or local levels, including National Women’s Machineries and other sectoral Ministries.

Proposals should ideally reflect partnerships among civil society and government. Special attention will be paid to organizations with a demonstrated record of working with local women’s organizations, especially grassroots women’s organizations and networks. Proposals from more than one organization or entity as co-applicants must clearly indicate which organization will take lead responsibility for project management and contractual obligations.
Organizations proposing multi-country initiatives must also demonstrate that they or their national implementing partners are legally registered in each of the countries (or territories) of implementation. Multi-country initiatives may cover a maximum of two countries.

Applicants are expected to submit proposals online in the form of a brief Concept Note and a detailed Full-fledged Proposal.
Please note that after providing their concept note, this year all applicants will be permitted to proceed immediately to submit a full-fledged proposal for their project. The UN Trust Fund will inform all applicants when the full-fledged proposal portal opens so they can continue with the final stage of the application process. - See more at: http://www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/un-trust-fund-to-end-violence-agai...

Applications can be submitted in the following languages only: English, French and Spanish (please note that while the UN Trust Fund’s Call for Proposal is available in Arabic, Portuguese and Russian, applications will only be accepted in English, Spanish or French).
All applicants that successfully submit their concept note by the deadline of 29 January will be able to proceed directly to the preparation of the full-fledged proposal on 2nd February 2015.
The deadline for submission of the Full-fledged Proposal is 27 March 2015

For more information, please visit the UN Trust Fund’s online grants management system: https://grants.unwomen.org/untf/cfp/application-guidelines