Deadline: 14-May-24
The United Nations Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) has launched a call for proposals in Lebanon to support civil society organizations to implement projects focusing on the protection of women and girls and on peacebuilding and recovery, as well as supporting local women and young women’s rights organizations through institutional funding.
The WPHF is a global pooled funding mechanism which aims to stimulate a significant increase in financing for women’s participation, leadership, and empowerment in peace and security processes and humanitarian response.
The overall purpose of this call for proposals is to provide grants to local civil society organizations, particularly local women’s rights organizations, in Lebanon focused on a) the protection of women and girls, and b) women’s socio-economic recovery and (political) participation of women in conflict and humanitarian contexts. This call for proposals also provides an opportunity for civil society organizations working on the implementation of commitments related to Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPSHA) in Lebanon to apply for institutional funding that will be used to strengthen and sustain their capacities.
Initiatives should aim to reach women and girls experiencing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, such as marginalized women and girls due to geography, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, migratory status, HIV status, among others in alignment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the principle of “leaving no one behind”.
Funding Information
- WPHF seeks to fund qualifying local organizations in Lebanon 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 5: Enhanced safety, security and mental health of women and girls’ and their human rights respected
- WPHF Impact Area 6: Improved socio-economic recovery and political participation of women and young women in peacebuilding contexts.
- This funding stream will finance projects which aim specifically to fund programmatic activities aligned with the following impact area(s):
- Institutional Funding: (USD $2,500 – $30,000)
- Duration
- CSOs can apply for a project duration of maximum 2 years (24 months)
Geographic Focus
- The WPHF will fund qualifying projects in any location in Lebanon.
- Multi-country projects, or projects outside the geographical focus will NOT be accepted.
Who can apply?
- 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, LGBTQI+, 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 or UN Country Teams;
- Private individuals;
- Private sector entities;
- Universities, Think Tanks or Education or Research Institutions
For more information, visit WPHF.