Deadline: 20-Feb-24
Emphasizing inter-regional cooperation, the Women’s Fund Armenia invites women, women’s organizations and feminist initiatives living and operating in different marzes to present joint ideas to improve the lives of women and girls in the marzes and strengthen cooperation between marzes.
The purpose of this announcement is to bring together 2-3 regional women and feminist groups and/or organizations that together can bring changes in the lives of women in their communities and, why not, in their communities as well.
They do limit the thematic direction of this grant. You are free to decide the program idea of interest to you and your partner(s), which will be aimed at positive changes in the lives of women and girls.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount of the grant for joint ideas can reach up to 3,000,000 AMD (including taxes).
What do they fund?
- Women’s and feminist organizations (NGOs, CSOs)
- Women’s unregistered groups and initiatives
- Individual women willing to somehow contribute to the local women’s/feminist movement
- Feminist activists, women human rights defenders, feminist researchers
What they do not fund?
- Organizations and groups that do not have women’s human rights focus
- Organizations whose sole activities are income-generation and/or charity
- International organizations proposing partnerships locally
- Organizations based or working primarily outside of Armenia
- Organizations and groups of women producing handmade products or having a business as a goal and without feminist aspirations
- Organizations led or managed by men
- Government entities, political parties, and election campaigns
Eligibility Criteria
- Please note that your group must meet all the following criteria to be eligible for a grant:
- Women’s organizations/groups/individuals working in Armenia (they also allocate a small number of grants for the Armenian women from the Diaspora)
- Women’s organizations/groups that demonstrate a clear commitment to women’s equality and women’s and human rights.
- Groups of women working together on a feminist project.
- Applicants should also have a strong intersectional approach.
- Organizations that are led and managed by women: women must fill all or most of the leadership roles.
- Persons identifying as women and organizations led by women are feminist and/or have feminist values and/or contribute to the feminist movement in Armenia.
- They cannot fund all the groups that fulfill this first set of criteria. They intend to give priority to groups that:
- Do not have access to institutional funders and large donors that require extensive knowledge in grant-application
- Women’s NGOs and groups that have strong feminist vision regardless of their terms of operations
- Women’s groups and initiatives that have the potential of continuing strong and becoming bigger initiatives
- Are based in provinces and geographical areas in Armenia that receive limited financial support
- Raise sensitive issues that are essential to further women’s rights and the women’s/feminist movement building
- Projects that are designed, led, and implemented by adolescent girls
- The Women’s Fund Armenia also supports individual researchers and provides scholarships for female students for their research on the topics of gender equality. They also support women’s human rights defenders at risk by providing them with safe space and recovery programs.
For more information, visit Women’s Fund Armenia.