Deadline: 5-Jun-22
ALIGN is excited to announce the fourth round of micro-funding to support research to understand how gender norms shape women’s engagement with, influence over, and experiences in governance institutions and decision-making processes, and how they can be transformed.
The ALIGN Fund aims to expand the evidence base and support collaboration, expanding networks in a research area historically characterized by limited attention to gender norms.
The ALIGN micro-granting facility is a responsive research fund. The micro-grants are intended to support the development of new knowledge and learning, and reflection materials on discriminatory and sexist gender norms, to inform policy and practice.
Themes
Your proposal should address one of the following questions:
- What are the key gender norms that underpin specific misogynistic attitudes and practices affecting women in different levels of government (i.e. national and sub-national)? What are effective actions for addressing them?
- What norm-based factors are impacting women’s experience and representation in subnational government, and how does this compare to national government?
- What role(s) do political parties play in reinforcing or transforming gender norms for women in different levels of politics/government?
- What role do associations of women political actors – both within and/or outside formal political spaces and processes, play in influencing norm change?
- (How) does feminist activism which aims to increase women’s leadership or political voice work to shift norm-based barriers to women’s engagement with politics and government?
- What role does the media play in perpetuating, identifying and possibly changing the norms that underpin misogyny in politics?
Funding Information
- In this round 3-5 small-scale projects will receive funding of up to £20,000 GBP, to initiate or build on existing research and practice, communicate learning and inform future action.
- They expect to award 3-5 organisations for up to 9 months in duration. Successful applicants will be selected in June 2022, with activities and funding expected to begin from July 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organisations and individuals: Organisations (corporate or non-profit) based in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Individuals may apply only if they hold a long term affiliation with an organisation or institution from these regions. In any other case, individual applications will not be considered.
- Funding restrictions: No portion of any payment received through this ALIGN funding may be used for any political campaign of any candidate for public office or any lobby activity.
- Language of proposals: Applications must be completed in English.
For more information, visit https://www.alignplatform.org/funding