Deadline: 18-Sep-22
UN Women and IOM presented the joint project “Co-Creating Peace: participation of diverse young women in the urban-rural and indigenous civic space in Nariño and Cauca”, approved by the Peace Building Fund (PBF)., which seeks to increase the participation of young urban, rural, indigenous and Afro-descendant women in Ricaurte and Pasto (Nariño) and in Popayán and Santander de Quilichao (Cauca) in caring for spaces civic as a contribution to the resolution of the social unrest, the transformation of conflicts and the maintenance of peace.
The project will be executed jointly between IOM and UN Women, seeking that the implementation take advantage of the experience in peacebuilding, gender and ethnic approaches, and the territorial presence of both agencies in each of the intervention areas, with their teams. Human resources, infrastructure and knowledge of the environments.
Objectives
The objective of the Fund is to technically and financially support innovative initiatives for the care of life, the nonrepetition of the armed conflict and the construction of peace for young urban, rural, indigenous and Afro-descendant women, in the civic spaces of the municipalities. from Ricaurte and Pasto in the department of Nariño, and from Popayán and Santander de Quilichao in the department of Cauca.
Thematical Areas
The Competitive Fund for Innovation for Peace will support initiatives that innovate in one or more of the following components: Care for life, Non-repetition of the armed conflict and Peacebuilding:
- Care for life: initiatives that strengthen self-protection and self-care strategies developed by young and diverse women to address the risks arising from the exercise of their leadership and participation in the peacebuilding scenario, and/or that promote the work between young men and women for the elimination of stigmatization and gender-based violence that young women face for and in the exercise of their participation and leadership in civic spaces for peacebuilding, including their own governments and models of collective protection of indigenous peoples.
- Non-repetition of the armed conflict: initiatives for participation, leadership, negotiation, mediation and social dialogue, which are processed in the civic spaces of the territorial peacebuilding scenario, significant for the demands and participation agendas of young and diverse women.
- Peacebuilding: initiatives that strengthen strategies of young and diverse women for the local management of peace, that link artistic, cultural, pedagogical, recreational, communicational, and institutional expressions, among others.
Components
In this context, the “Co-Creating Peace” project seeks to generate conditions so that diverse young women can participate, exercise their leadership and process their initiatives in civic spaces for social mobilization, the transformation of social conflicts and the construction of peace, based on the introduction of innovative elements that privilege their knowledge, knowledge, experiences, practices, and forms of organization and participation, in 3 components:
- Generation of greater guarantees and protection and self-care measures for young and diverse women that respond to the risks derived from their participation and leadership in social mobilization and in the construction of territorial peace, and that arise from the identification of their proposals , needs and own forms of protection. These must be implemented in coordination with the government agencies (municipal, departmental, ethnic or national) and with the accompaniment and verification of the Ombudsman’s Office, as responsible for promoting the effective response of the State for the generation of enabling environments for participation in civic spaces.
- Strengthening the capacities of young and diverse women for their participation and the exercise of their leadership in civic spaces based on a training process in mediation, prevention and transformation of conflicts, revitalization of social dialogue, digital activism and security in digital environments, implemented with innovative methodologies based on dialogue and the exchange of interethnic and urban-rural knowledge.
- Financial support, accompaniment and technical assistance for the co-design and implementation of innovative initiatives of young and diverse women for the care of life, the non-repetition of the armed conflict and the construction of peace in the civic spaces of their communities. territories that are significant for them, through the Competitive Fund for Innovation for Peace.
Funding Information
- Through this modality, the Fund will support initiatives with a duration of between 3 and 8 months.
- With a budget from $110,000,000 to $200,000,000 COP.
- The fund will have two modalities for financing organizational strengthening:
- Micro organizational strengthening: Applies to initiatives lasting between 3 and 6 months, with budgets from COP$10,000. 000.00 up to COP $29,999. 999.00
- Small organizational strengthening: applies to initiatives with a duration between 3 and 8 months with a budget from COP $30,000. 000.00 up to $ COP 109,999.9990
Eligibility Criteria
- For Organizations that apply to the Programmatic Financing modality ($110,000,000 up to $200,000,000 COP)
- Be an organization registered in Colombia, non-governmental and non-profit,
- Be legally constituted for at least three (3) years.
- Be directed and led by young women.
- Have an organizational objective focused on promoting and strengthening the rights of young women in their diversity.
- Have 6 or more associates and/or members and/or employees.
- Have implemented at least three (3) projects related to its corporate purpose or that at least 3 of its associates and/or members and/or employees have at least twelve (12) months of experience in the execution of projects.
- The foregoing must be demonstrable through certificates or equivalent documents such as final reports, closing minutes, etc.
- For organizations that apply for Micro Organizational Strengthening Financing (COP$10,000,000 up to COP$29,999,999):
- Be a non-governmental and non-profit organization registered in Colombia.
- Be legally constituted for at least three (3) years.
- Be directed and led by young women
- Have an organizational objective focused on the promotion and strengthening of the rights of young women in their diversity.
- Have a minimum of 2 associates and/or members and/or employees.
- Have implemented at least one (1) project related to its corporate purpose or that at least 1 of its associates and/or members and/or employees has at least six (6) months of experience in the execution of projects
- The must be demonstrable through certificates or equivalent documents such as reports finals, closing minutes, etc.
- For organizations that apply for Small Organizational Strengthening Financing (COP$30,000,000 up to COP$109,999,999):
- Be a non-governmental and non-profit organization registered in Colombia.
- Be legally constituted for at least three (3) years
- Be directed and led by young women.
- Have an organizational objective focused on promoting and strengthening the rights of young women in their diversity.
- Have a minimum of 3 associates and/or members and/or employees.
- Have implemented at least two (2) projects related to its corporate purpose or that at least 2 of its associates and/or members and/or employees have at least six (6) months of experience in the execution of projects.
- The foregoing must be demonstrable through certificates or equivalent documents such as final reports, closing minutes, etc.
- The Fund will preferably finance proposals from organizations of young women. However, women’s, indigenous or youth organizations can also apply, as long as they meet the requirements established for the presentation of alliance proposals:
- Organizations that are NOT directed, led and/or focused on the rights of young women (women’s, indigenous or youth organizations) may present themselves in alliance with formal or informal organizational processes of young women, as long as it is demonstrated that there is a natural alliance of joint work prior to the call with at least two (2) organizational processes of young allied women. Initiatives submitted under alliances must:
- Have as a central axis to make possible the initiatives of the organizations and processes of the diverse young allied women.
- Demonstrate that the process of identifying problems and building the social innovation proposal were formulated in conjunction with young and diverse women from allied organizational processes.
- Guarantee the transfer of skills, competencies and all the resources assigned from the Fund to the organizational processes of diverse young women allies. This can happen through the reception, analysis and selection of requests presented by organizations or networks of young and diverse women whose purpose is to strengthen them.
- Guarantee in the social innovation proposal the prevalence of the conceptions, knowledge, approaches, cosmovisions, methodologies, strategies and forms of expression typical of the diverse young allied women.
- Organizations that are NOT directed, led and/or focused on the rights of young women (women’s, indigenous or youth organizations) may present themselves in alliance with formal or informal organizational processes of young women, as long as it is demonstrated that there is a natural alliance of joint work prior to the call with at least two (2) organizational processes of young allied women. Initiatives submitted under alliances must:
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/programme-implementation/2022/09/convocatoria-abierta-unw-ac-col-cfp-2022-005-tdr-fondo-concursable-innovacion-para-la-paz
