Deadline: 31 March 2020
Applications are now open for the Nordic Gender Equality Fund 2020.
The Nordic Gender Equality Fund addresses a broad target group and calls for proposals are open to a variety of activities and organisations including:
- Volunteer organisations (citizen organisations/not-for-profit organisations)
- Networks
- Government agencies and other public sector activities (such as municipalities, university departments, divisions, etc.)
- Other non-commercial actors
- Business enterprises (SMEs)
Type of Activities
The following types of activities may be funded:
- Staging of Nordic gatherings/meetings
- Investigations/inquiries
- Network-building
- Activity projects
- The participation of volunteer organisations in Nordic or international conferences/courses/meetings/gatherings
Funding Information
The amount applied for should be between DKK 50,000 and DKK 500,000.
Funding will not be granted for:
- Activities already financed wholly or in part by Nordic Council of Ministers for Gender Equality (MR-JÄM), or the Nordic Council of Ministers.
- Activities that submit a budget in a currency other than DKK.
- Applications submitted after the deadline.
- Activities that submit an incomplete application (all mandatory fields not filled in or applications without the requisite attached documentation).
- Political party organisations.
- Private individuals.
- Activities whose purpose is to generate a profit or equivalent for the funding beneficiary.
Eligibility Criteria
- Each project must involve at least the three Nordic countries, where the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Aaland Islands may constitute one of these only. In addition, grants can be awarded to activities that include cooperation in neighbouring areas, i.e. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and north-west Russia, that also include at least two Nordic countries. The principal applicant should come from a Nordic country or the Faroe Islands, Greenland or the Aaland Islands.
- The Nordic Gender Equality Fund finances activities initiated in the same year as the funding is granted and which are completed within two years from the commencement date. Activities commenced before the application deadline are not eligible for funding.
Assessment Criteria
Funding applications are to indicate how well the project meets the following criteria:
- Nordic benefit
- This means the extent to which the project:
- Generates significant positive effects through Nordic cooperation, compared to the project having been implemented at the national level
- Manifests and develops Nordic cohesion, both within and outside the region
- Contributes new infrastructure that strengthens Nordic cooperation on gender equality
- Responds in a constructive way to the challenges of Nordic cooperation such as national barriers and differences
- Here, the assessment is based on how well the application:
- Justifies why the project should be implemented as Nordic cooperation
- Describes the added value and the challenges that the cooperating parties perceive in working together across country borders
- This means the extent to which the project:
- Added value for gender policy
- This refers to the extent to which the project:
- Aims to respond to the problems of gender inequality concerning the rights, conditions, and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys, as well as the power to shape their lives and contribute to the development of society
- Contributes new/updated knowledge about methods and models of gender inequality/equality and/or exchanges of experience concerning knowledge about methods and models of gender inequality/equality
- Helps to respond to the challenges identified in the Nordic cooperation programme on gender equality
- Here, the assessment is based on how well the application:
- Describes the problems of gender inequality that the cooperating parties have identified and which the project intends to respond to
- Shows how well the cooperating parties understand these problems based on theoretical knowledge and/or tried and tested experience
- Demonstrates an awareness of previous work, knowledge and/or research concerning the problems that the cooperating parties intend to respond to and, based on this awareness, describes how the project will contribute to change and add new knowledge
- This refers to the extent to which the project:
- Young people’s engagement/activism and the youth perspective on gender equality issues: The Nordic Gender Equality Fund 2020 has a thematic prioritization of projects that promote young people’s engagement/activism and the youth perspective on gender equality issues. Projects that come under this theme will be awarded a premium in the assessment process, but it will still be the overall assessment of the projects that decides which projects will be funded.
- Young people’s engagement/activism and the youth perspective on gender equality issues refers to the extent to which the project:
- Includes target groups of young people in the age range 13–30 in all parts of the activities, from ideation to evaluation, as far as possible
- Includes a youth perspective on gender equality issues
- Here, the assessment will be based on how well the application:
- Describes how the youth perspective is embedded in the design of the project
- Describes how the target groups of young people are included in the different parts of the project. An assessment will be made of whether young people’s participation and co-determination is part of the project/network as well as how support for the project/network has been achieved among children and/or young people
- Young people’s engagement/activism and the youth perspective on gender equality issues refers to the extent to which the project:
- Sustainability
- Sustainability means here the extent to which:
- The project design provides scope for others to draw conclusions and learn from the project’s successes and setbacks
- The project results and efforts are expected to have lasting effects through infrastructure and products which persist after the end of the project such as networks, websites, reports, etc., and how these are designed to reach relevant target groups
- Here, the assessment is based on how well the application:
- Describes how and with which target groups the cooperating parties plan to communicate the project and its results, and how they will ensure that these results will be available even after the end of the project.
- Sustainability means here the extent to which:
- Implementation
- Implementation here means:
- How likely it is, in light of the applicant’s skills and experience, that the project will be implemented in the manner described by the applicants
- What bases do the applicants have for working together, for example that they contribute different skills, perspectives and experience which means that they can complement each other
- Here, the assessment is based on how well the application:
- Describes how the cooperating parties plan to go about responding to the identified problems, and the justification they have provided for their choice of approach with regard to the feasibility of achieving the results and drawing conclusions from these results
- Implementation here means:
For more information, visit https://nikk.no/en/nordic-equality-fund/information-for-applicants/