Deadline: 22-Apr-25
OxYGen Foundation for Protection of Youth and Women Rights (OxYGen) is accepting proposals for a sub-grant program within the framework of the “EQUAL – EU for Women’s Empowerment in Armenia” program.
The project is implemented by the Oxygen Foundation, the European Partnership for Democracy NGO, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee NGO, the Women’s Support Center NGO, the WINNET Goris Development Foundation, in cooperation with the Winnet Sweden NGO. The project is funded by the European Union.
The project “EQUAL – EU 4 Women Empowerment in Armenia” aims to elevate and empower women in Armenia to bring about societal change across the country. To do so, EQUAL provides women with support to exercise their political, economic and socio-cultural rights, targeting specifically those from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. EQUAL adopts a cross-cutting approach to tackling women’s issues that are often pushed to the margins of policymaking, including human trafficking, sexual and reproductive education, harassment in the workplace, or the impact of gender norms in social groups.
Goals
- To strengthen judicial responses to gender-based violence (GBV) and domestic violence (DV) by enhancing judges’ understanding of gender sensitivity, relevant legal frameworks, and survivor-centered approaches.
Objectives
- Objective 1: Institutionalize gender-sensitive judicial training by integrating legal, psychological, and social perspectives into judicial education programs, ensuring sustained capacity-building for judges on GBV and DV cases.
- Objective 2: Increase judges’ awareness and understanding of gender bias, stereotypes, and their impact on legal decision-making in GBV and DV cases.
Funding Information
- Expected subgrant duration: 5 months
- Size of the subgrant: 20,000 Euro
- Starting date of the subgrant: 15 May 2025
Eligible Activities
- Conduct a desk review of national and international laws on GBV and DV, and international best practices on training judges.
- Conduct a multi-stakeholder curriculum development workshop with legal experts, psychologists, and GBV specialists to design an integrated training module that includes legal, psychological, and social perspectives.
- Develop a gender-sensitive and survivor-centered curriculum, including practical sessions with real-life case studies that highlight how gender bias influences judicial decisions in GBV/DV cases.
- Conduct a module review and validation meeting with judicial training institutions, women’s rights organizations, and survivor advocates.
- Conduct pilot training and collect feedback for improvements to the module.
- Initiate advocacy efforts for the module’s integration into judicial training programs by engaging key decision-makers and presenting evidence of its effectiveness.
Ineligible Activities
- actions concerned only or mainly with individual sponsorships for participation in workshops, seminars, conferences, and congresses
- actions concerned only or mainly with individual scholarships for studies or training courses
- actions supporting political parties
- actions supporting charitable fundraising.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations legally registered in Armenia; non-profit; with experience relevant to the topic of the call. Organizations that have already been awarded a subgrant under the project EQUAL cannot be eligible for this subgrant.
Evaluation Criteria
- The proposal packages will be evaluated by the selection committee (also referred to as “SelCom”), against the below criteria.
- Relevance of the planned project
- Quality of the problem analysis and potential solutions: the specific policy issues and the interests of the target groups, beneficiaries and other involved parties have been comprehensively appraised.
- Quality of proposed interventions: considering their adequacy to address the identified problems.
- Gender empowerment and social inclusion: to what extent the proposed project contributes to strengthening gender equality and promoting social inclusion, making sure it leaves no one behind.
- Participation and engagement of beneficiaries at grassroots level: the project allows equal participation of all target groups, without discrimination based on gender, race, social status, ethnicity, or religion.
- Experience of implementing projects of similar nature
- Feasibility of the planned project
- Consistency of the logic of intervention: coherence between the project objective, planned outputs and expected outcomes.
- Implementation methodology: based on previous experience and lessons learned from best practices, the proposal must showcase how the expected results are achievable
- Project planning: the proposed timeframe and activity planning realistic under the given circumstances and with the budget available.
- Clear management structure – responsibilities, coordination, and collaboration modalities.
- Risk assessment and mitigation measures.
- MEAL: modes of data gathering and monitoring, defined data sources, accountability and learning.
- Sustainability of the planned project
- Sustainability planning: the applicant has demonstrated clear consideration and a comprehensive understanding of the project’s sustainability and of the steps required to ensure the positive effects and impacts after the project’s closure.
- Capacity building: the proposal contributes to capacity building at the level of the individual and/or the organization/institution.
- Financial criteria
- Cost effectiveness: the proposed costs are reasonable and within the range of what would typically be expected for similar products
- Legal and regulatory compliance: all proposed costs comply with relevant laws and regulations.
- Logical proportionality: the admin and activity budgets are reasonably shared.
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