Call for Proposals to support CSOs in the Central African Republic

Deadline: 26-Nov-2024

The United Nations Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) has launched a Call for Proposals in the Central African Republic (CAR) to support civil society organizations to implement projects focusing humanitarian and crisis response and peacebuilding and recovery, as well as supporting local women and young women’s rights organizations through institutional funding.

The overall purpose of this call for proposals is to provide grants to local women and young women’s rights civil society organizations in the Central African Republic (CAR) focused on

• humanitarian and crisis response, or
• peacebuilding and recovery, in conflict and humanitarian contexts. The call for proposals specifically contributes to WPHF’s overall goal of contributing to peaceful and gender equal societies.

Funding Streams

• WPHF seeks to fund qualifying local organizations in the CAR through the following funding streams:
  • Institutional Funding: (USD $2,500 – $30,000) 
    • Aims to reinforce the institutional capacity of women’s rights/led organizations working on gender specific 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 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 3: Enhanced participation and leadership of women in humanitarian and crisis planning and response. or
      • WPHF Impact area 6: Improved socioeconomic recovery and political participation of women and young women in peacebuilding contexts.

Eligibility Criteria

• Who can apply and receive funding?
  • 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.
  • 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.

Ineligibility Criteria

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

For more information, visit WPHF.