Countries: Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Languages: SAWF will accept Letters of Interest in English and any of the regional languages (Bangla, Hindi, Nepali, Sinhalese, Tamil and Urdu).
Deadline: 1 April - 1 May 2015
GRANTS
- Strengthening Feminist Voices, USD 1,000-10,000
- Right to Safe and Secure Mobility, USD 5,000-10,000
- Right to Physical Integrity and Decision-making, USD 5,000-10,000
DESCRIPTION
South Asia Women’s Fund supports women’s organisations and activists working towards realising women’s human rights in the South Asian region. SAWF provides access to resources for women-led interventions with a special focus on critical issues, disadvantaged and marginalised women, and within difficult contexts and circumstances.
Focus Areas:
- Strengthening Feminist Voices: critical funding for institutional support, research, collaborations and travel (to conferences, meetings and critical spaces), on a wide cross section of issues and topics related to women’s human rights. SAWF is particularly interested in supporting initiatives which are innovative and cutting edge; promote collaborations among women’s rights groups; or strengthen the women’s movement - locally, nationally or regionally. Priority will be given to applications from small community based women’s groups.
- Right to Safe and Secure Mobility: supports interventions focused on women’s right to movement, livelihood and choice. The types of grants supported include (but are not limited to) strengthening networks, institutional support, collaborations and setting up new groups.
- Right to Physical Integrity and Decision-making: supports initiatives that are led by young women or second line leaders of the women’s movement; or are aimed at promoting young women’s choice, sexuality and decision making on issues around forced marriage, right to choice and relationships etc. The types of grants supported under this thematic include (but are not limited to) strengthening networks, institutional support, collaborations and setting up new groups.
ELIGIBILTY
- Any woman’s organisation whose annual budget is under USD 50,000, located in the focal countries can apply
- At least 70% of its decision-making body and staff should be women, its team should be led by a woman, and at least 70% of its programmatic resources should be spent on working for women’s rights
- The organisation should be committed to feminist principles and rights-based approaches
- A second-line woman leader of an organisation (which is not a women’s rights organisation) may apply for an individual grant
- Individual women activists or scholars may apply under the Small Grants Programme
GUIDELINES
All Letters of Interest (LOIs) should state clearly the goal towards which the project will contribute, the immediate objectives of the project, the project design and main activities, the outcomes and measurable indicators, demonstrate the rights based approach in their methodology and process statement , provide a detailed budget outlining the expenditures per activity. Priority will be given to interventions that show fresh and new thinking; are innovative, build upon other ideas; show ways in which they will sustain the gains of the project; use the grant to leverage the gains from an on-going project; show links between this project and other on-going tasks, in a way to add value and contribute to strengthen the human rights movements; use this grant to link with other national or sub-national initiatives to ensure a regional resonance.
All submissions must include the following to be accepted:
- An attested copy of the registration of the organisation
- List of its governing body and executive staff
- Tax exemption status
- Audited accounts of the previous financial year
- Annual report, or any other document in its stead that lays out the activities, achievements and challenges that the organisation undertook in the preceding year
Download proposal: http://www.sawf.info/download/Call_for_Applications.pdf
Contact info: For any questions or clarifications regarding the call for applications or the Letter of Interest format, please contact us at sawfrgp@sawf.info