Deadline: 26-Apr-22
The Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is thrilled to announce its latest Call for Proposals in Ethiopia to support local civil society organizations working to enhance women’s leadership in humanitarian and crisis response and to ensure the rights protection of women and girls.
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 450 civil society organizations and is present in 26 countries or group of countries.
Funding Streams
The Call for proposals aims at responding to the needs of local women’s organizations in fragile and humanitarian settings, with two (2) funding streams:
- Institutional funding: This funding stream will provide institutional funding to local civil society organizations working on gender specific issues in peace and security and humanitarian contexts, to ensure they are able to sustain themselves and to improve their impact.
- Programmatic funding: This funding stream will finance projects which aim specifically to fund programmatic activities aligned with the WPHF Impact Areas 3 of humanitarian and crisis response and reach, and Impact Area 5 for the protection of women and girls.
Funding Information
- The WPHF will grant around 500,000 USD over one year to Ethiopia.
- Funding stream 1: Institutional funding: from 2,500 USD to 30,000 USD
- Funding stream 2: Programmatic funding: from 30,000 USD to 200,000 USD
- All civil society organizations can apply for a maximum of 12 months.
Location
Projects will be accepted for all regions of Ethiopia.
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. International NGOs are only eligible to apply if they are partnering with a national, regional or local women-led organization. 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.
- The lead applicant organization must have legal status with the competent national authority in the eligible country of project implementation. Organizations that are not registered in the country of implementation may apply in partnership with a locally registered implementing partner as the lead applicant.
For more information, visit https://wphfund.org/call-for-proposals-in-ethiopia/