Deadline: 1-Aug-24
The Gender Budget Watchdog Network (GBWN) announces a public Call for Applications for Capacity Building and Sub-Granting in Gender and Climate Change Financing by the Gender Budget Watchdog Network from N. Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Moldova.
The overall objective of the joint Project is to improve public commitments for gender responsive climate action and increase available financing to implement gender-responsive climate action in the WB region and Republic of Moldova
The concept note should relate to gender-responsive budgeting and climate change financing, including gender analysis to inform expenditures, monitoring expenditures using gender impact analysis, or using other GRB tools. Potential issues that projects may focus on may be, but not necessarily limited to:
- Gender in Global Environment Facility (GEF), Green Climate Fund (GCF), Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF);
- Gender in WBIF, EIB and EBRD green projects;
- Gender in national budget supported climate resilience projects;
- Gender in local budget climate change supported projects.
Grant Categories
- As the advocates of social justice and equality, it is crucial that CSOs have a deep understanding of gender-responsive budgeting and how the governments should apply it to create more equitable societies. Therefore, with this call, they invite civil society organizations from the WB and Moldova to submit a project concept note for the following types of grants:
- National Grants – Two (2) grants will be awarded per country, with the maximum amount of €8,000 per grant. Projects must be completed in a period of up to eighteen months from the date of the signature of the contract.
- Regional Grants – Two grants will be awarded with the maximum amount of €25,000 per grant. Projects must be completed in a period of up to twenty-four months. In total 16 grants (2 per country and 2 regional) will be provided under these grant schemes.
Project Outcomes
- The anticipated Project outcomes include to:
- Strengthen visibility and international recognition of the work of the Gender Budget Watchdog
- Network;
- Increased CSO capacities to use GRB tools watch-dogging climate change policy and financing;
- Improve CSO participation in policy and budgeting processes by using gender budget watchdog;
- Improved availability of tools for increased government accountability, particularly in resilience response, climate change financing and gender responsiveness of the climate change policy framework
Eligibility Criteria
- Legally registered CSOs from all 7 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia can apply. This includes, preferably, but not necessarily:
- Women’s rights organization – organizations that work furthering women’s rights, as well as those that have an intersectional approach in working with diverse women, such as rural women, women with disabilities, the poor, and persons of different sexual orientations and gender identities;
- Think tank organizations – especially those working on relevant to EU accession reforms in education, aging, youth, public administration, and public finance reforms, among others;
- CSOs working on public finance (budget or procurement issues) – dealing with public finance, budget monitoring, and public procurement monitoring;
- Environmental organisations – dealing with environmental agenda(s);
- Men’s organizations – organizations active in gender equality and issues faced by men;
- Organizations working on implementing UN Resolution 1325 and the women, peace and security agenda.
- To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant and its partners must:
- finish the online modules of training and commit to participate in the third training in Albania with physical presence (all travel and training costs will be paid by the organizers),
- be a legal person,
- be non-profitmaking,
- be registered/established at least two years before the publication of this Call, and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project with their partners, not acting as an intermediary, Be willing to undergo a participatory Organization and Advocacy Capacity Assessment if selected to receive a grant, to develop a Capacity Development Plan based on the assessment findings and related to the proposed project, and work to implement it as part of the project; and For the Regional grants at least 3 CSOs from 3 different countries must be part of the consortium, and each of the 3 CSOs must satisfy the eligibility criteria above.
- The lead applicant may not submit more than 1 application under the national call for applications.
- However, a lead applicant for a national grant may be a partner in 1 other application of the regional call at the same time.
- The lead applicant may be awarded more than 1 grant under this call for applications (once under the national sub-granting scheme, and second as a partner under the regional sub-granting scheme).
For more information, visit GBWN.