Deadline: 12-Apr-23
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that support the policy objective to advance the U.S. Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) by promoting gender equality and addressing gender-based, including sexual and domestic violence in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
This NOFO supports the leadership of the White House Gender Policy Council; the National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality; the direction of the U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally; and the Root Causes Strategy (Pillar V: Combatting sexual, gender-based, and domestic violence).
Goals
- DRL’s goals of this program are:
- that local organizations build their network and ability to respond to GBV;
- to ensure that women and girls in all their diversity, are safe from violence;
- which will enable them to advocate and organize on their own behalf, for equal rights, to remove barriers to services, to improve access to survivor-centered justice, and to safely participate in all aspects of public life.
- The program should take an intersectional approach by accounting for the ways in which Indigenous women, women from socially excluded communities, LBTQI+ women, women with disabilities, low-income women, women in public-facing positions, women from racial and ethnic minority communities, and other intersections are further impacted the dynamic of gender-based violence.
Objectives
- The program objectives are:
- women and girls from marginalized communities in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are knowledgeable about their rights and safely engage with community leaders and reporting mechanisms to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, harassment, and abuse; and
- networks and capacity of local civil society organizations and collectives that represent and support vulnerable women can advocate together, exchange knowledge and promising practices with one another to better support survivors of GBV and the rights and safety of girls and women and
- marginalized women from all communities, including women with disabilities, indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, rural, LBTQI+, returnees, and young women are engaged in accessing justice and do so.
Funding Information
- Total Funding Floor: $2,000,000
- Total Funding Ceiling: $2,000,000
- Period of Performance: 24-36 months.
Outcomes
- Outcomes can include but are not limited to:
- network creation, interconnections and cross-country exchanges between organizations working with and led by marginalized women;
- clear, direct referral pathways to services that are tailored to the needs of women and girls who are also members of other marginalized populations or vulnerable groups;
- formal and informal civil society organizations are enabled to better advocate for women’s rights, increase their organizational capacity, and are more engaged in collective action and advocacy;
- women and girls understand their rights, and laws and policies to protect their rights are carried out consistently and equitably
- women and girls from marginalized communities know how to access services and feel confident to safely engage with local reporting mechanisms to address GBV;
- women and girls understand their human rights and how to report GBV-related crimes and access justice;
- increased collaboration and shared strategies among local collectives and organizations working with and led by marginalized communities to organize, advocate, and address GBV and their human rights;
- increased leadership and agency of women and girls from marginalized communities, including ethnic and racial minorities, LBTQI+ women, young women, rural women, returnees, and women with disabilities on the protection, prevention, and response to GBV;
- increased cooperation across countries, shared strategies, network strengthening and understanding within and among local groups working with and led by marginalized communities;
- Increased deployment of trauma-informed and holistic approaches that are survivor-centered and address the root causes of GBV;
- civil society creatively addresses norm change and other forms of GBV prevention using traditional media, social media, the arts, and other methods to reach a broad audience;
- media outlets are trauma-informed and better equipped to accurately report on GBV using an intersectional gender lens;
- accessible public resources on prevention and response to GBV are developed;
- pathways to service provision are coordinated and accessible across all three countries;
- civil society can improve collaboration and coordination with reporting mechanisms and justice system actors to better protect and respond to GBV survivors needs, both short-term and long-term;
- communities, families, and the public improve understanding of and response to GBV so that survivors have a stronger support system and communities are better integrated into the reduction of GBV;
- community leaders, men and boys, and other allies are more engaged and better integrated into efforts to reduce GBV.
Eligibility Criteria
- DRL welcomes applications from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and public international organizations; private, public, or state institutions of higher education; and for-profit organizations or businesses. DRL’s preference is to work with non-profit entities; however, there may be some occasions when a for-profit entity is best suited.
- Applications submitted by for-profit entities may be subject to additional review following the panel selection process. Additionally, the Department of State prohibits profit to for-profit or commercial organizations under its assistance awards. Profit is defined as any amount in excess of allowable direct and indirect costs. The allowability of costs incurred by commercial organizations is determined in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) at 48 CFR 30, Cost Accounting Standards Administration, and 48 CFR 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures.
For more information, visit Inclusive Approaches to Gender-Based Violence.