Deadline: 30-Jan-22
UN Women has launched Jamaica Small Grants Applications to support leadership and monitoring and evaluation capacity strengthening programmes for CSOs in Jamaica especially those working with underserved communities.
The vision of the Spotlight Initiative (SI) is that the rights of women and girls to live free from violence are protected, promoted, and upheld. The impact that the SI will work towards achieving is that all women and girls, particularly those who are most vulnerable, live a life free of violence and harmful practices.
UN Women MCO Caribbean is supporting implementation of the Spotlight Initiative in four CARICOM member states- Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago of six CARICOM Member States (the others being Belize and Haiti) to receive support from the Spotlight Initiative. UN Women MCO Caribbean leads on Pillar 6 in these four territories.
Objectives
The main objectives are:
- To contribute to the reduction of family violence against women and girls and
- To improve access for women and girls to essential, safe, adequate, integrated gender-responsive services
Key Pillars
The key pillars of the Spotlight Initiative Include:
- Laws and Policies
- Institutional Capacities
- Social Norms and Behaviours
- Services
- Data Availability and Utilisation
- Women’s Rights Groups, Autonomous Social Movements and CSOs
Funding Information
- UN Women’s small grants are limited to a maximum of USD 30,000 per CSO per 12-month period and a maximum USD 60,000 for the lifetime of the CSO. The calculation of the maximum grant amount includes all small grants awarded to the CSO from all UN Women Offices.
- For these grants, being disbursed under the Spotlight Initiative to support groups to engage with parliamentarians and policy makers to influence law and policy developments and with media to promote gender-responsive messages on prevention, protection and response to IPV and child sex abuse, individual proposals by CSOs are limited to a maximum of the equivalent of USD 10,000.
- Joint proposals with two (2) or more CSOs are limited to a maximum of the equivalent of USD 20,000.
Eligible activities
The applicant may apply for a small grant to cover the following activities:
- Introducing and improving organizational systems, tools, and processes – including scaling up work and initiatives
- Training of workforce in technical and managerial skills; and,
- Supporting with equipment such as copiers, scanners, printers, laptops and computers as long as the cost of such equipment is limited to 30% of the proposed small grant budget or USD5,000, whichever is lower.
Eligibility Criteria
The applicant may apply if it:
- is a registered CSO in operation for at least three years;
- is not on the Consolidated UN Security Council Sanctions List;
- is not being investigated for fraud, corruption, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or other wrongdoing;
- has not had funding received from UN Women entirely or partly written off by UN Women;
- is not currently engaged as an Implementing Partner (IP) or Responsible Party (RP) for UN Women;
- has not been engaged as an IP/RP for UN Women at any time after 21 November 2019;
- is not a government entity;
- is not a UN organization;
- is not an established CSO with the capacity to be engaged as an IP/RP;
- has sufficient capacity to collaborate with various stakeholders;
- has sufficient financial stewardship, including having adequate financial policies and procedures in place to manage the small grant; and,
- past performance has been deemed satisfactory by UN Women (if it has received small grants previously or been engaged as an IP/RP before 21 November 2019).
For more information, visit https://caribbean.unwomen.org/en/stories/news/2022/01/un-women-leadership-me-grant-spotlight-initiative-jamaica