Deadline: 04-Apr-22
The Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund is excited to announce its latest Call for Proposals in Iraq to increase meaningful participation and decision-making of women and girls in conflict prevention processes.
The overall goal of the WPHF’s theory of change is to contribute to peaceful and gender equal societies. Achievement of this goal will require that women are empowered to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from conflict prevention, crisis response, peacebuilding, and recovery.Since its launch in 2016, WPHF has been supporting over 200 civil society organizations and is present in 20 countries or group of countries.
The WPHF will fund qualifying projects in Iraq. The projects must focus on one country. Multi-country projects will NOT be accepted.
Impact Areas
The proposal submitted must be aligned to the impact statements of the respective WPHF funding stream that the organization chooses to apply to:
- Institutional funding stream (WPHF impact area 1) to reinforce the institutional capacity of civil society organizations working on conflict prevention and response.
- Programmatic funding stream (WPHF impact area 2): to increase meaningful participation and decision-making of women in conflict prevention processes and response.
Funding Streams
The remaining WPHF grant is around 400 thousand USDover 1 year to Iraq. TheCall for proposals aims at responding to the needs of local women’s organizations in fragile settings, withtwo (2) funding streams:
- Funding stream 1: Institutional funding: from 5,000 USD to 10,000 USD
- Funding stream 2: Programmatic funding: from 80,000 USD to 100,000 USD
- An organization can only apply one time either to one or both streams. Organizations who will apply for both streams will need to submit two applications packages based on the requirements and related templates of each stream.
- Please note: All selected grantees must ensure that there is continuous coordination with the Department of Women empowerment in their respective governorates.
- All civil society organizations can apply for a maximum of 1-year grants.
Location
Projects need to be implemented in southern Iraq regions only.
Eligibility Criteria
- International , national and local women- led, women’s rights, feminist, or civil society organizations with a proven track record working with women and girls, are eligible to apply. Grassroots and local community-based organizations are particularly encouraged to apply. Joint projects are allowed and encouraged.
- To be considered a “Women’s Rights or Feminist Organization,” the organization’s official mission/vision statement must reflect its commitment to addressing multiple/intersecting forms of discrimination and advancing gender equality and women’s rights. The organization must aim to address the underlying drivers/systems/structures, including patriarchy and gendered power dynamics, and work to transform these.
- “Women-led organization” must be headed by a woman as director/head of organization.
- To be considered “Youth rights”, the organization’s official mission/vision must reflect its commitment to addressing multiple/intersecting forms of discrimination and advancing the rights of youth.
- “Youth-led organization” must be headed by a youth as defined by the country/organization
- Other CSOs must demonstrate experience in addressing violence against women and girls, gender inequalities and/or women’s rights.
Ineligible
The following are NOT eligible to apply for a grant from the WPHF:
- Organizations proposing a multi-country intervention;
- Organizations proposing an intervention in a country different from the eligible country;
- Lead-organizations that are not legally registered in the country/territory of implementation;
- Government agencies or institutions;
- UN agencies or UN Country Teams;
- Private individuals;
- Private sector entities;
- Universities and Education institutions
For more information, visit https://wphfund.org/call-for-proposals-in-iraq-4/