CFPs: Strengthening Feminist Organisations in the Fight against Gender-Based Violence

Deadline: 1-Jan-24

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has launched the Feminist Opportunities Now (FON) Project to strengthen feminist networks, alliances and movements working to prevent and end gender-based violence.

The Feminist Opportunities Now (FON) is an AFD-funded project that provides funds to amplify the work of civil society organisations, movements and groups fighting gender-based violence in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The consortium partners implementing the FON project are IPPF Africa Region, Médecins du Monde, CREA, FIDH and EmpowHer.

FON also supports informal and unregistered groups of activists, networks or coalitions of organizations. They particularly encourage feminist, women– and youth-led organizations that, in their local context, may face significant obstacles in preventing and combating gender-based violence.

Objectives

• The Project seeks to:
  • Improve the sustainability of feminist organisations at the organisational and technical levels by proposing an inclusive approach to capacity building.
  • Support the resilience and diversity of feminist CSOs through access to sustainable, flexible and adapted financing for small and/or informal and/or structurally excluded.
  • Strengthen the networking of feminist CSOs from the South, bringing them closer to networks at national, regional, and international levels, in order to bring their voice to the public arena.

Funding Information

• Window 3 (Networking) – 10 000€ to 150 000€.

Eligible Countries

• The Project will be deployed in 10 countries:
  • Africa (6): Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia and Kenya.
  • Latin America (2): Mexico and Colombia.
  • Asia (2): Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Networks which can apply for a sub-grant under the FON project Window 3 funding must comply with the following:
  • Be committed in favour of gender equality and implement actions to prevent and/or fight Gender-Based Violence.
  • The network lead must be based and implement actions in at least one of the 6 countries of the Project.
  • Most of the CSOs members of the network must be legally registered (for those that are registered) and implement activities in most of the 6 countries of the project. FON may consider networks including CSOs in countries outside the 6 FON Focus countries, but these must be very marginal.
  • Are particularly encouraged to apply organisations working with or led by people who, in their local context, that may face particularly high discrimination, gender inequalities and gender-based violence, such as:
    • Members of the LGBTI+ community and in general people with diverse sexual orientation and gender identities
    • People living with disabilities
    • People living with HIV/AIDS
    • Racial, ethnic or indigenous minorities (in the local context)
    • Internally displaced, migrant and refugee people
    • Sex workers
    • Young people
    • Members of any other community that in their local context face particularly high discrimination, gender inequalities and gender-based violence.
  • Conduct activities with a feminist approach.
    • Organisations, platforms of movements with no legal entity in their countries, due to practical or political reasons, are eligible to sub-grants.
    • Initiatives by individuals, or those presented by public/governmental institutions, even if they fulfil the above requirements, are not eligible to sub-grants.
    • CSOs working with structurally excluded communities, those created by young feminist activists and those having serious difficulties to have their actions and projects financed, will be granted particular attention when awarding the sub-grants.
  • Networks must present a project that aims at bringing systemic changes, and therefore the focus will be on high level advocacy:
    • The applying networks are encouraged to have projects with a strong component of advocacy that is intended towards regional and country decision-making instances.
  • Priority will be given to networks:
    • Whose governance is in its majority composed of people representing the communities or groups of people the network represents and works for.
    • Located in rural or remote areas or marginalized areas.
    • That work with grassroot organisations, small and/or informal (including unregistered ones).

For more information, visit International Planned Parenthood Federation.