Deadline: 7-Feb-22
We Effect Southern Africa is inviting local civil society organisations (CSOs) to submit concept notes to be partner organisations for the new programming period, 2023 – 2027.
We Effect’s Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSA) is interested in partnering with organisations working with a wide range of rightsholders in the agriculture and housing sectors. We Effect ROSA particularly wants to prioritise work with the most marginalized and excluded communities based on the ‘Agenda 2030’ principle of leaving no one behind and the cooperative principle of caring for the community.
Programmes and projects are mainly implemented though partnerships with local civil society organisations that are member-based organisations supporting communities and rightsholders working in the agriculture and housing sectors. However, We Effect ROSA also encourages applications from civil society organisations and specifically from smallholder farmer and women’s rights organisations.
We Effect’s mission is to enable people living in poverty to improve their living conditions, defend their rights and contribute to a just society. We Effect works in the thematic fields of sustainable rural development and adequate housing with a strong focus on women’s rights. The target groups for the development cooperation are the partner organisations and their existing and potential members.
Qualification Requirements
We Effect seeks to identify the following types of partners:
- Core partners: These are local or national organisations working in one of We Effect’s countries in the region. These organisations will be supported in their core strategic work in the agriculture and/or housing sector. Core business could include both service delivery and lobbying and advocacy.
- Technical partners: These are organisations with expertise in at least one of the following thematic areas: gender transformation, climate justice and rights-based approaches. These organisations would support core and strategic partners to strengthen their work in these areas. These partners are linked with three or four core partners to support them in the specific area of their expertise. Technical partners must therefore be operating within the We Effect countries of operation where the core partners work.
- Strategic partners: This category is for organisations working at a regional level or striving to work at a regional level. We Effect would support your strategic work in agriculture and/or housing sector at a regional level. This is not limited to lobbying and advocacy but could also include development of key tools and/or resources to support a particular sector in two or more countries.
- You should be operating in one of the following countries: Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.
- They Effect’s ambition is to decentralise to deepen the outreach and the support for organisations across all countries in which they are working. Organisations working at a national level or with decentralised offices and branches are strongly encouraged to apply. International organisations are not eligible for funding under this call.
Criteria
The application should be a maximum 3 pages and include the following information:
- Organisational details including legal status and year of registration
- Background and problem analysis (reason/s for establishing the organisation and intervention that you are applying for, an explanation of the problem and its root causes)
- Experience of working in one or more of the following three areas: gender transformation, climate justice and human rights-based approach.
- Experience of working with the most marginalised and excluded communities
- Strategic areas of work in the agriculture or housing sector
- Partnership type you are interested in and why (you can state more than one, but please justify each choice)
For more information, visit https://weeffect.org/news/call-for-proposals-local-civil-society-organisations-for-partnership-with-we-effect-southern-africa/