Deadline: 30-Nov-2025
The Women’s Voice and Leadership Learning Partnership is inviting applications from eligible organizations to become Regional Learning Hubs that will strengthen learning, knowledge sharing and advocacy efforts in advancing gender equality.
Each Regional Learning Hub will align with three main objectives: advancing regional learning priorities and facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges, positioning knowledge for use and advocacy, and strengthening feminist monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) capacities. The Learning Partnership will be structured around three pillars—peer-to-peer learning and knowledge translation to share lessons and evidence from RWVL program implementation, building and gathering evidence to deepen understanding of human rights and gender equality, and capacity bridging to enhance feminist MEAL and organizational development.
The focus areas of this opportunity include supporting localized learning, evidence generation and knowledge sharing among women’s rights organizations, LGBTQI+ groups and their networks. Each hub will co-lead a participatory process to contextualize the co-created learning agenda, oversee region-specific learning priorities, questions and approaches that reflect lived experiences and advocacy strategies of local actors, and organize region-specific convenings and virtual engagements to foster vibrant learning ecosystems that strengthen advocacy and interventions to advance gender equality.
Funding for each Regional Learning Hub will be based on the scope and scale of the RWVL programming in their region. The Regional Learning Hub for Latin America and the Caribbean will receive CAD 750,000, the Hub for West and Central Africa will receive CAD 600,000, the Hub for East and Southern Africa will receive CAD 950,000, and the Hub for Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe will receive CAD 500,000. The funding will support all activities over a 42-month period, including costs associated with regional convenings and engagement activities.
Eligible applicants include women’s rights and feminist organizations, or consortia of organizations, that are primarily governed, led and directed in the Global South or predominantly work in countries benefiting from Official Development Assistance. Applicants must have the promotion of the rights of women, youth, girls and gender-diverse people as their core mission.
Organizations must also demonstrate experience in applying feminist monitoring, evaluation and learning practices, with an interest in showcasing the benefits of feminist or gender-transformative approaches. The ability to perform services in English, French and Spanish is essential. This call presents a unique opportunity for feminist actors to deepen collaboration, share regional insights and contribute to advancing inclusive gender equality on a global scale.
For more information, visit Global Affairs Canada.
