Deadline: 20-May-2024
Are you passionate about gender justice? Are you a civil society organisation? Are you based in Sri Lanka or Bangladesh? Do you work to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBA)? Do you aspire to strengthen your organisation’s capacity to be a dynamic, resilient and sustainable advocate for gender justice? If you answered yes to all the above questions, then this call is for you!
Feminist Opportunities Now (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.
The project “Feminist Opportunities Now (FON)”, implemented by the consortium of organizations with the lead of the International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Region (IPPFAR), in collaboration with CREA, Empow’Her, the International Federation on Human Rights, and Médecins du Monde France (MdM-FR). Funded by the Agence Francaise de Développement (AFD), FON’s overarching goal is to strengthen the capacity of feminist movements to address gender-based violence (GBV) through sub-grants to feminist organizations, with a focus on reaching small, often unregistered, feminist organizations. The project will be implemented across ten countries in three regions: Mexico and Colombia (led by MdM), Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (led by CREA), and Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, and Mali (led by IPPFAR).
Objectives
- FON objectives are:
- Improve the sustainability of feminist organizations at the organizational and technical level by proposing an inclusive approach to capacity development.
- Support the resilience and diversity of feminist Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) through access to sustainable, flexible, and adapted financing for small and/or informal and/or structurally excluded ones.
- Strengthen the networking of feminist CSOs from the South, bringing them closer to networks at the national, regional, and international levels, to bring their voice to the public agenda.
‘Develop’ Grant Window
- Flexible and adapted financing for feminist CSOs is one of the main activities of FON. This window intends to partner with Feminist CSOs that address gender-based violence (GBV). Following initiatives are encouraged through this funding window:
- Basic financing (core funding) to ensure the operations of your organization.
- to ensure sustainability of the organization and to cover organizations’ expenses without linking them to the implementation of a project, when these expenses are dedicated to strengthening your organizational and technical capabilities.
- examples of these could be the cost of a consultancy to provide support at an organizational level (financial management, internal audit, governance, etc.), equipment costs (i.e., purchase computers, office supplies…), consumables (i.e., papers, ink cartridges, etc.), operating expenses (i.e., rent, transportation, electricity, communications)
- Financing for an intervention/ project in particular. Either a new or an existing initiative to address GBV:
- Develop your work from a technical point of view, i.e. conduct research and analysis on serious violations of women’s rights to design and implement GBV projects in humanitarian settings.
- Develop initiatives: the reformation of existing discriminatory laws, policies or institutions; initiatives to address GBV, i.e., promoting dialogue, sharing among feminist CSOs aiming at transformative and systemic changes; contribute to the body of knowledge; developing (drafting and testing) media toolkits to address GBV
- Combination of both categories mentioned above- funding for core and intervention.
- Basic financing (core funding) to ensure the operations of your organization.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: USD 13,000-47,000
- Duration: twelve to eighteen months (within the span of 1 September 2024- 30 April 2026)
Eligibility Criteria
- The CSOs which can apply for a sub-grant under the FON project must:
- be committed in favor of gender equality and implement actions to prevent and/or address GBV.
- be a Feminist Civil Society Organization working with/ for structurally excluded people
- be based in Sri Lanka or Bangladesh
- Civil Society Organizations working with structurally excluded communities, those created by young
- feminist activists.
- Registered organizations and organizations/platforms of movements with no legal entity (unregistered) due to practical or political reasons, are eligible to apply.
- Encouraged to apply:
- Particularly encouraged to apply to organizations working with or led by people who, in their local context, 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
- Youth groups
- Members of any other community that in their local context face particularly high discrimination, gender inequalities and gender-based violence.
- Particularly encouraged to apply to organizations working with or led by people who, in their local context, may face particularly high discrimination, gender inequalities, and gender-based violence, such as:
Ineligible
- Initiatives by individuals, Initiatives presented by public/governmental institutions, and organizations not working in the GBV sector.
For more information, visit FON.