Deadline: 7-Apr-23
The Gender Budget Watchdog Network announces the Public Call for Applications for Capacity Building and Grants for Gender Responsive Budgeting and Sustainable Response by the Gender Budgeting Monitoring Network from North Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Moldova.
The overall goal of the joint project is to improve public commitments for gender-responsive climate action and to increase available funding for the implementation of gender-responsive climate action in the Western Balkans region and the Republic of Moldova.
Project: Strengthening Transparency and Accountability for Gender Equality in Western Balkans and Moldova Gender Budget Watchdog Network, Phase II.
Funded by: Austrian Development Agency and Swedish Development Agency and International Cooperation
Focus Issues
Possible issues where projects could focus on could be, but not necessarily limited to:
- Energy crisis
- Security crises resulting from the Ukraine-Russia conflict
- Food crisis
- Emergency and disaster response
- Environmental crisis
- Effects of rising cost of living on gender equality
Types of Grants
- As advocates of social justice and equity, it is essential that CSOs have advanced knowledge of gender responsive budgeting and how governments should implement it to create more equitable societies. Therefore, with this call, they invite civil society organizations from the Western Balkans and Moldova to submit a project concept for the following types of grants.
- National Grants – Two (2) grants will be awarded for each country included in this project, with a maximum amount of €8,000 per grant. Projects must be completed within a period of up to eighteen months from the date of signing the contract.
- Regional Grants – Two (2) grants will be awarded with a maximum amount of €25,000 per grant. Projects must be completed within a period of up to twenty-four months from the date of signing the contract.
Expected Results
- The expected results of the project include:
- Increased visibility and international recognition of the work of the Surveillance Network Gender Budgeting;
- Increasing the capacities of CSOs to use the tools of the BPGJ for the supervision of climate change policies and financing;
- Improving the participation of CSOs in policy and budgeting processes using gender budget oversight;
- Availability of tools to increase government accountability, especially in sustainable response, financing related to climate change issues and gender responsiveness within climate change policies;
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations must be legally registered in one of the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia. For this call are preferred, but not mandatory:
- Women’s rights organizations – organizations that work to further women’s rights, as well as those that take an interdisciplinary approach in working with different women, such as rural women, women with disabilities, the poor and persons with different sexual orientations and gender identities;
- “Think tank” organization – especially those that, among other things, work on reforms related to EU membership, education reforms, reforms for the third age, youth, public administration and public finances.;
- CSOs working on public finances (budget or procurement issues) – dealing with public finances, budget monitoring, and public procurement monitoring;
- Environmental Organizations – dealing with environmental issues;
- Men’s organizations – organizations active in gender equality and challenges affecting men;
- To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant and its partners must:
- Complete the two online training modules and engage in the third training in Montenegro (all travel and training expenses will be covered by the organizers),
- be a legal entity,
- be non-profit,
- be registered/ established at least 2 years before the publication of the call, as well as
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project with their partners, not acting as an intermediary
- The main applicant cannot submit more than 1 application for national calls. However, an applicant for a national grant can be a partner in 1 other regional call application at the same time. The lead applicant may be awarded more than 1 grant under this call for applications (once under the national grant-making scheme and secondly as a partner under the regional subgrant scheme).
For more information, visit Gender Budget Watchdog Network.