Deadline: 2-Apr-25
The Government of Canada is pleased to announce its call for concept notes under Health, Education, Women’s and Girls’ Rights and Empowerment Program.
Objectives
- The call will fund projects that support the delivery of basic needs services to Afghans, especially women and girls, in one or more of the following three programming areas:
- Quality, accessible, gender-responsive health services for the most marginalized (including women and girls in all their diversity, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older persons, and other marginalized groups).
- Demand-driven skills training, particularly for women and girls in all their diversity, in areas such as literacy and numeracy, digital skills, life skills, business skills, and other relevant technical and vocational skill areas.
- Inclusive services that protect and advance the rights and empowerment of all Afghans, with a focus on gender, ethnic and religious minorities, underserviced populations including those impacted by disability, and support to women-led groups.
Funding Information
- The total amount of funding available under the health, education and women’s and girls’ rights and empowerment in Afghanistan call is up to CAD$35,000,000 over 4 years. Global Affairs Canada (GAC) anticipates supporting 4 to 8 projects of CAD$2,000,000 to CAD$10,000,000 each, or none.
Duration
- Your proposed project will last up to four years.
Geographic Scope
- Projects implemented inside Afghanistan, as well as remote, regional, or diaspora-focused activities will be considered as long as there is a clear development outcome for the people of Afghanistan.
Expected Outcomes
- Projects funded under this call must contribute to the following ultimate outcome:
- Improved wellbeing of Afghans, especially women and girls in all their diversity, through increased access to basic needs services.
- Applicants are expected to tailor the call’s ultimate outcome to align with their own intermediate outcomes based on their project design. Outcome statements should be grounded in the reality of the proposed activities and results, making them more specific in terms of the who, what, and where of your project.
- What will change?
- Who will experience the change? The intermediaries (duty bearers/responsibility holders) or beneficiaries (rights holders)? (at a minimum, disaggregated by sex); and
- Where will the change take place?
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, you must meet each requirement and, where stipulated, provide supporting documentation:
- Your organization is legally incorporated, and you can provide proof of legal status (if your original documentation is in a language other than French or English, provide a scan of the original as well as a translation).
- If your organization is Canadian, you must provide proof that your organization is legally incorporated in Canada with a Canada Revenue Agency business number. Your organization must have an office, employees, and/or board of directors in Canada.
- If your organization is an Indigenous organization in Canada, it must provide supporting documentation on its history, and governance, and/or ownership structure.
- You are not a sovereign entity (a government of a country) or multilateral institution.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.