Deadline: 20-Feb-24
UN Women has announced a call for applications for Small Grants for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working on Women’s Participation in Leadership and Decision making at all levels under the ‘Strengthening institutional capacity of duty-bearers and empowering rights-holders for advancement of gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) in Ethiopia.
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
Objective
- The main objective of the call for small grant is to strengthen the capacity of CSOs that work to promote women’s participation and leadership in governance and decision-making positions. The grant is therefore expected to increase the resource and capacity of eligible CSOs/WROs to advance the rights of women to participate in public and political life and enable them to become agents of transformative change towards an equitable society. By strengthening CSOs working on promotion of women’s participation and leadership, UN Women aims to support the interventions/initiatives in women’s participation in public and political life to create a cohesive, just, inclusive, and democratic society.
Funding Information
- UN Women’s small grants are limited to a maximum of USD 30,000 per CSO per 12-month period and a maximum USD 60,000 for the lifetime of the CSO. The calculation of the maximum grant amount includes all small grants awarded to the CSO from all UN Women Offices.
Eligible Activities
- The applicant may apply for a small grant to cover the following activities:
- introducing and improving organizational systems, tools, and processes.
- training of workforce in technical and managerial skills.
- supporting with equipment such as copiers, scanners, printers, laptops, and computers as long as the cost of such equipment is limited to 30% of the proposed small grant budget or USD 5,000, whichever is lower.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicants must be a CSO legally established and operating in Ethiopia. To be considered for the small grant, the CSO must demonstrate that it works on women rights and gender equality in Ethiopia with a proven track record of working on the areas of women participation in public and political life including their participation in electoral processes.
- The applicant may apply if it:
- is a registered CSO in operation for at least three years.
- is not on the Consolidated UN Security Council Sanctions List4;
- is not being investigated for fraud, corruption, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, or other wrongdoing.
- has not had funding received from UN Women entirely or partly written off by UN Women.
- is not currently engaged as an Implementing Partner (IP) or Responsible Party (RP) for UN Women.
- has not been engaged as an IP/RP for UN Women at any time after 21 November 2019.
- is not a government entity
- is not a UN organization
- is not an established CSO with the capacity to be engaged as an IP/RP
- has sufficient capacity to collaborate with various stakeholders.
- has sufficient financial stewardship, including having adequate financial policies and procedures in place to manage the small grant; and,
- past performance has been deemed satisfactory by UN Women for purpose of this advertisement, applicant CSOs are encouraged to demonstrate in their application their organizational approach to the principles of leaving no one behind (LNOB) and in addressing intersecting forms of vulnerabilities (young women, women with disabilities, rural women, migrant women, women living with HIV, internally displaced women etc.)
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