Call for Proposals: Climate Security Response in Nigeria

Deadline: 03-May-24

The United Nations Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) has launched a call for proposals to support local, grassroots, women and young women’s civil society organizations in Nigeria to enhance their active participation and leadership in climate security efforts in conflict settings.

Objectives and Purpose

• The overall purpose of this call for proposals is to provide grants to local civil society organizations in Nigeria, focused on responses related to women’s participation and leadership in the prevention of climate-related conflicts and injustice as well as in economic and political decision-making of women in climate security and climate justice. The call for proposals specifically contributes to WPHF’s overall goal of contributing to peaceful and gender equal societies.
• Initiatives should aim to reach those women and girls experiencing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, such as those excluded due to geography, ethnicity, disability, age, migratory status, HIV status, among others and which is in alignment with the 2030 Agenda and the principle of leaving no one behind.

Type of Funding Available

• Under this call for proposals, WPHF is accepting applications for both institutional/core funding and programmatic funding. An organization (lead applicant or co-implementing partners) can submit one application for institutional funding, AND/OR one application for programmatic funding. Organizations who apply for both institutional and programmatic funding need to submit two separate applications packages based on the related templates of each stream.
  • Institutional Funding: (USD $2,500 – $30,000)
    • Aims to reinforce the institutional capacity of women’s rights/led organizations working on climate security and climate justice issues in peace and security and humanitarian contexts, to ensure they are able to sustain themselves and to improve their impact. Prospective applicants will need to demonstrate that the organization’s mandate, mission or past activities includes a focus on climate security and climate justice issues. They also need to demonstrate how the current context affects their institutional and financial capacities and how the funding would support them as an organization. It will finance a limited range of activities to support the development or strengthening of a CSO’s institutional capacity. The purpose of this funding stream is not to finance programmatic activities.
    • Organizations who apply for institutional funding should have a mandate aligned to the objectives of the call for proposal.
  • Programmatic Funding: (USD $30,000 – $200,000)
    • This funding stream will finance projects which aim specifically to fund programmatic activities aligned with the following impact area(s):
      • WPHF Impact area 2: Increased meaningful participation and decision-making of women in conflict prevention processes and response
        • In the context of this Call for Proposals, this means activities that promote women’s leadership and participation to inform decision-making processes and responses related to the prevention of climate-related conflicts and injustice. or
      • WPHF Impact area 6: Improved socioeconomic recovery and political participation of women and young women in peacebuilding contexts
        • In the context of this Call for Proposals, this means activities that promote women’s leadership and participation in green socioeconomic recovery and political decision-making to reduce climate-related conflicts and injustice.

Duration

• CSOs can apply for a project duration of maximum 2 years (24 months)

Location

• The WPHF will only fund qualifying projects in Benue, Cross River, Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa States in Nigeria.
• Multi-country projects, or projects outside the geographical focus will not be accepted.

Eligibility Criteria

• National, regional or local/grassroots women or young women led, women’s rights, youth rights, feminist, or civil society organizations with a proven track record working with women, young women and girls, are eligible to apply. Organizations who are led by women who face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination are encouraged to apply, including displaced persons, disabilities, ethnic minorities, etc. Organizations whose mandate focuses specifically on addressing climate security and climate justice are also encouraged to apply.
• Women’s Rights or Feminist Organization: The organization’s must have gender equality and women’s rights at the core of their official mission/vision statement. The organization’s experience should clearly reflect addressing multiple/intersecting forms of discrimination and advancing gender equality and women’s rights and aim to address the underlying drivers/systems/structures, including patriarchy and gendered power dynamics, and work to transform these.
• Women-Led Organization: must be headed by a woman as director/head of organization.
• Youth Focused Organization: To be considered “youth focused”, the organization’s core mission/vision must focus on supporting the social, economic and political participation of young women and young men and addressing multiple/ intersecting forms of discrimination against young women and men. WPHF will provide specific attention to youth focused organizations supporting young women, advancing gender equality and peacebuilding.
• Young Women Led Organization: must be headed by a young person aged between 18 – 29 years old who serves as director/head of organization.

Ineligible

• The following are not eligible to apply for a grant from the WPHF:
  • International non-governmental organizations;
  • Government agencies or institutions;
  • UN agencies or UN Country Teams;
  • Private individuals;
  • Private sector entities;
  • Universities, Think Tanks or Education or Research Institutions

For more information, visit WPHF.