Joint Gender Fund Call for Proposals: Supporting Interventions to address Gender-Based Violence in South Africa

Deadline: 26 October 2016

The Joint Gender Fund (JGF) is currently accepting proposals from civil society organizations for “Supporting Interventions to address Gender-Based Violence and Cross-Cutting Issues” in order to enhance leadership and provide funding for innovative programmes that address the drivers of violence against women and girls in South Africa in ways that respond to and transform the underlying causes.

Focus Areas

GBV & disability
GBV & migration
GBV & sexual orientation and/or gender identity

Funding Information

Grant amount of Up to R250,000 per year for a maximum of two years.

Eligibility Criteria

Organizations must:

Be a registered South African non-profit organization, working in South Africa
Work on human rights/development issues as a core business
Have adequate financial and management systems
Have a governance structure that is active and involved
Have strong leadership, participation and empowerment by people who experience gender-based oppression (particularly women)
Have a vision for transforming unequal gender power relations
Demonstrate alignment with the overall strategy of the JGF

Preference given to interventions which take into consideration the following aspects:

Demonstrate a thorough conceptual understanding of GBV and the cross-cutting issue(s) and their intersections;
Identify and integrate strategies to address the underlying causes of GBV and cross-cutting issues;
Demonstrate a clear change agenda / results that are sustainable in the medium- to long-term;
Address a specific critical driver of GBV, such as alcohol abuse, economic disempowerment, attitudes and beliefs which normalize violence, etc., with a view to combating GBV
Incorporate innovations and actions to improve service delivery standards to reduce GBV
Make use of innovative approaches;
Integrate strategies to transform consciousness of men and boys, whilst centering and building the agency of women and girls;
Contribute towards prevention whilst making the linkage to improved response services to mitigate GBV;
Bring different stakeholders together for improved impact;
Harness the capacity of key community structures to respond to the issues.