Deadline: 26-Nov-23
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is seeking applications to support new, emerging and long-standing feminist organisations in the MENA region as they develop their own feminist solutions to address conflicts, injustice and (structural) violence and achieve feminist peace.
The support will take shape in three main tracks:
- Flexible funding: to be allocated where the actors see fit. This approach was developed to break away from the project-based top-down funding policies that are often driven by donor needs and agendas and allow feminist actors the time and resources to think and act strategically and according to their own needs and agendas. The funding requested can be up to 40,000 CHF for a period of two years. Examples of previous costs covered include administrative costs, salaries, IT support and equipment, office space, legal fees, training spaces and course development, hardto-fund activities, and community-based initiatives.
- Safe and emergent spaces for peer exchange, networking and movement building: to maintain and develop networks and collaboration and foster feminist movement-building locally, nationally, and regionally. These spaces will take place virtually and in person and will adopt a participatory approach to their design that incorporates the input of everyone who is included.
- Tailored technical support and principled accompaniment: to identify the key priority areas according to actors’ own needs, contexts, and capacities in a participatory approach. This support will be provided through internal expertise, partner organisations, and feminist consultant experts from the region. Examples of previous support provided include psychological support, gender mainstreaming, financial management, safeguarding from a feminist perspective, gender-sensitive media and communications, crowdfunding, and more.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call is open for feminist organising that takes shape in collective work (initiatives, organisations, groups, movements etc.) and meets the below criteria.
- Demonstrates a track record of conducting feminist grassroots activism through community organising, resistance to the status quo, and patriarchal and militarised structures, aimed at furthering social justice for systematic change and feminist peace.
- Be primarily governed, led, and/or directed by people from the community that the organisation seeks to serve.
- Focuses on the MENA region in their operational scope and engages with local communities as their target.
- Exhibits limitations in receiving funds to operate or execute certain initiatives.
- Demonstrates commitment to learn and share knowledge with other organisations.
- Is not a current granting partner of WILPF.
- Note: WILPF recognises that the current backlash on feminist and women organisations, groups, and individual activists in the region might deter some organisations from applying for this call. WILPF firmly encourages all interested applicants to apply, as it commits to ensuring that all their data will be protected and handled with the utmost confidentiality and endeavours to ensure that its approach will be sensitivite to their contexts.
For more information, visit WILPF.