Deadline: 6 October 2017
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is currently inviting proposals from eligible Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to implement gender and socially inclusive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects in South Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific through the Water for Women Fund.
The Fund is a flagship program in Australia’s engagement in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). The Fund draws on lessons from DFAT’s Civil Society WASH Fund (the CS WASH Fund), due to end in June 2018.
The Fund will operate in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), South-East Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines, Timor-Leste and Vietnam) and Pacific (Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu).
Operational objectives
The goal of the Water for Women Fund is ‘Improved health, gender equality and well-being of Asian and Pacific communities through inclusive, sustainable WASH.’
Contributions will be made to the goal through four end-of-program outcomes:
- Strengthened national and sub-national WASH sector systems with greater emphasis on gender, social inclusion, safely managed WASH and water security.
- Increased equitable, universal access to, and use of, sustainable WASH services, particularly for marginalised communities and community members.
- Strengthened gender equality and social inclusion in households, communities and institutions.
- Strengthened use of new evidence, innovation and practice in sustainable gender and inclusive WASH by other CSOs, national and international WASH sector actors.
Intermediate outcomes, which are expected to contribute to the above Fund outcomes, are:
- Increased capacity and agency of governments, private sector, community-based organisations and communities, in planning, investing and delivering sustainable, inclusive WASH services.
- Greater integration of gender and socially inclusive approaches by governments, private sector, community-based organisations and communities.
- Documentation and sharing of gender and socially inclusive evidence and effective practices with other CSOs, national and international WASH sector actors.
Funding Information
Grants for each proposal (inclusive of funds sought for inception and implementation) are expected to range from a minimum of AUD$2.5 million to a maximum of AUD$10 million across five years.
Eligibility Criteria
- DFAT invites proposals for projects from civil society and not-for-profit organisations that are currently engaged in promoting access to water, sanitation and hygiene services in Asian and Pacific countries.
- This includes Australian not-for-profit organisations:
- Accredited by DFAT for the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP); and/or
- Signatory to the ACFID Code of Conduct.
- DFAT also invites proposals from non-Australian civil society and not-for-profit organisations engaged in the sector (including international and partner country organisations).
- DFAT also invites proposals involving consortia.
- The Applicant CSO will be accountable for all funds.
- Organisations submitting proposals must not have any reason preventing them from operating in the country/s of their proposed project/s.
- Applicant CSOs are eligible to submit multiple proposals– one for each project in a specific country. Each project may be implemented across a number of sites in the country. CSOs submitting multiple proposals acknowledge that they are making commitments to each proposal to undertake all of the activities detailed in a given proposal– irrespective of any decision on any other proposal.
How to Apply
Proposals must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit Water for Women Fund.