Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) is inviting women’s rights and feminist organisations in the region to apply the Sub-grant for National Monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and Development Justice 2022-2023.
In this programme, APWLD will partner and support 5 to 8 organisations to do monitoring of the SDGs implementation in their country using the Feminist Development Justice framework and to carry out advocacy based on it.
This small grant will cover some salary costs (of a dedicated coordinator), contribute to national or local consultations with a broad range of community groups, civil society and development actors, and carry out advocacy aimed to ensure that development policies and agenda are informed and shaped by the needs of women and their communities.
APWLD will also support staff from each organisation in regional-level capacity building workshops and provide advocacy or network opportunities. They will access trainings and skill shares in media advocacy, data gathering and analysis, research methods, gender assessments, participatory baseline setting and other necessary skills for the project. The organisation will then share their acquired knowledge and tools with civil society groups locally through a combination of trainings, meetings, online tools and platforms, etc.
Through this programme, APWLD has built capacity and provided resources and tools to national and local feminist and women’s rights organisations to produce their own analysis, critique and provide recommendation on their government’s commitments and implementations of the SDGs using the Development Justice model. The programme also provide organisations with an opportunity to influence the national and local policies and framework for the SDGs implementations and to be part of larger and stronger local, regional and global movements of feminists and peoples’ organisations and networks working to achieve Development Justice.
Objectives
- Develop the capacity of feminist movements and women’s rights organisations to conduct evidence-based advocacy for the monitoring and review of the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Foster knowledge and resources on the impact of development policies, practices and projects on women at the national level by monitoring SDGs through the Feminist Development Justice (FDJ) indicators.
- Establish strategic advocacy plans and opportunities to support women’s own position and solutions for development policy at the national level, regional and international levels through the Asia Pacific Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM) and the Women’s Major Group respectively.
- Strengthen institutional development of partner organisations through Feminist leadership development and movement building for Development Justice.
Funding Information
APWLD will provide each partner organisation with a sub-grant amount between $15,000 to $18,000 USD for 18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants should be non-governmental and non-profit, a feminist, women’s rights and/or women-led organisation from countries in the Asia Pacific region who demonstrate the following:
- Commitment to the enjoyment and realisation of the human rights of women in Asia Pacific, particularly of the most marginalised (young, rural, indigenous, migrant, Dalit women and/or women in other minority and marginalized groups).
- Able to demonstrate experience in working with grassroots’ communities.
- Familiar with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development or development related policies in the national and/or local level.
- Capacity and commitment to fulfil the monitoring programme for 18 months.
- Commitment to the feminist Development Justice framework.
- Able to provide a dedicated staff coordinator for the sub-grant and to prepare and write the Peoples’ Development Justice Report.
- Able to bring a broad range of community members, civil society and development actors for consultations.
Criteria
APWLD will consider the following when selecting the partner organisations:
- Preference may be given to organisations from the countries potentially reporting and whose works are related to the focused goals at the High Level Political Forum in 2022 and 2023.
- Organisational capacity to successfully implement the monitoring and review project.
- Experience in advocacy work related to the SDGs and Development Justice.
For more information, visit https://apwld.org/call-for-applications-apwld-sub-grant-fdj-2022-2023/