Deadline: 27-Dec-21
The Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is thrilled to announce its second call for proposals in Mali to strengthen women’s participation in local efforts to advance the WPS agenda and protect the rights of women and girls.
Composed of representatives of donors, United Nations agencies and organizations of the civil society, the WPHF is a global pooled funding mechanism that aims to revive action and stimulate a significant increase in funding, participation, leadership and empowerment of women in peace and security processes and humanitarian action. The WPHF is a flexible and fast funding mechanism. It supports quality interventions aimed at strengthening the capacity of women to locally prevent conflicts, to cope with crises and emergency situations and seize essential peacebuilding opportunities.
The WPHF aims to overcome the silos between humanitarian aid, peace and security maintenance and financing development by investing in strengthening participation, leadership and the empowerment of women through all phases, whether in times of crisis, of peace and security or development.
The overall goal of the WPHF Theory of Change is to make possible the existence of societies peaceful and egalitarian. To achieve this goal, women must be empowered to participate and contribute to conflict prevention, crisis management, peacebuilding and process reconstruction and also benefit from it. Since its launch in 2016, the WPHF has supported more than 300 civil society organizations and is present in 20 countries or groupings of countries.
The WPHF is governed by a board of directors at the global level, made up of four entities United Nations (currently UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and PBSO), four Member States donors (currently the European Union, Germany, Canada and Austria), as well as 4civil society organizations (currently GPPAC, ICAN, Action Aid and Women’s Refugee Commission).
Objectives
WPHF seeks to fund qualifying civil society organizations and projects led by and working alongside women and girls in central and northern Mali that are high impact, innovative and contribute directly to the following objectives:
- Increasing women’s participation in advocating for and ensuring accountability on the WPS agenda
- Protecting women and girls’ safety, security and human rights
Funding Streams
- WPHF will provide approximately $ 615,783 over two years in Mali. The call for proposals aims to meet the needs of local women’s organizations in fragile contexts, through two (2) funding streams:
- Funding Stream 1: Institutional Funding: from USD 2,500 to USD 30,000.
- This institutional funding component offers an operating grant to organizations local civil society working on gender specific issues in peace contexts, security and humanitarian aid, so that they can continue to operate and to increase their impacts. Applicant organizations will have to demonstrate how the current context affects their organizational and financial capacities, as well as the way in which the contribution of the WPHF will support them as an organization.
- Funding Stream 2: Project Funding: USD 30,000 to USD 200,000.
- This funding stream will support projects that specifically aim to fund activities programmatic aligned to WPHF Impact Area 5.
- Funding Stream 1: Institutional Funding: from USD 2,500 to USD 30,000.
- All civil society organizations can apply for grants for a period of maximum of 18 months.
Note: An organization can only apply once, either for one of the streams or for both. Organizations applying for both streams must submit two application files, each containing the answers to the specific requirements of the two funding streams and their own forms. Applications are accepted in French.
Locality
The projects must be implemented in the following localities: Central regions (Ségou, Mopti,Bandiagara, San and Douentza) or from the North (Gao, Kidal, Ménaka, Taoudéni and Timbuktu). Any project proposed outside these regions should specifically target internally displaced persons and their host communities in areas with high numbers of internally displaced people.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following are allowed to apply: International organizations national and local defenserights of women, feminists or civil society, led by women and demonstrating proven experience working with women and girls. Field organizations and Local community organizations are particularly encouraged to apply.Joint projects are allowed and encouraged.
- To be considered a “feminist or women’s rights organization”,the organization must commit to combating multiple / interrelated forms of discrimination as well as advance gender equality and women’s rights in its official mission / vision statement.
- The organization must work to transform the underlying factors / systems / structures, including patriarchy and gender power dynamics, which perpetuate violence gender-based.
- A “Women-led Organization” must have a woman at the helm in the roledirector of the organization. Other CSOs should demonstrate experience in addressing violence against of women and girls, gender inequalities and / or women’s rights.
- To be considered as an organization for the defense of “youth rights”, the mission / vision official organization must reflect its commitment to tackle multiple / intersecting forms discrimination and promote the rights of young people.
- “Youth-led organization” should be youth-led as defined by the country /the organization.
- Other CSOs will have to demonstrate their experience in the fight against violence against women and girls, gender inequalities and / or women’s rights.
For more information, visit https://wphfund.org/call-for-proposals-in-mali/