Deadline: 25-Aug-2025
The French Development Agency is launching a call for proposals aiming at strengthening the resilience of communities in the District of Montepuez.
The overall objective of the selected project will be to reduce gender inequalities by improving the response to gender based violence through the education sector. The project will also promote gender equality via a holistic, integrated approach – health, protection, community development and support to shift social norms.
The Call for crisis and post-crisis project proposals “prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in territories impacted by the Cabo Delgado crisis” (i.e. the “Call”) aims at funding a development project led and managed by an International Civil Society Organization or International Non-Profit Organization.
Funding Information
- The AFD has earmarked a grant of maximum EUR 6 Million (six million Euros) to fund one single project for a duration of 36 to 48 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant can apply individually or as a consortium (of maximum three organizations). In both cases, the Project Lead Institution (or PLI):
- Must prove that they are authorized to intervene in the country in accordance with local regulations, hence must be an organization with official registration in the country of this Call (i.e. Mozambique) as well as a local office in the country of this Call (i.e. Mozambique), including in the Cabo Delgado Province.
- In case of a single organization application, the PLI needs to already have an office and operate in the Montepuez District.
- In case of a consortium, at least one of the members needs to already have an office and operate in the Montepuez District.
- Must have past experience in project implementation in the Cabo Delgado Province, including in the Montepuez District, before and/or during the crisis.
- Must have an in-depth knowledge of the context and key stakeholders, and possess relevant sectoral experience, especially in the field of development of education, health and protection for host and forcibly displaced communities.
- Must dedicate attention should be given to responding to girls’ needs affected by forced displacements. Gender mainstreaming should be combined with conflict sensitive programming, to ensure both a do-no-harm and contribution to social cohesion.
- Must provide tangible evidence that demonstrates its ability to evaluate and manage security issues and risks in the area of intervention.
- Must be used to working closely with various stakeholders and therefore should be able to collaborate smoothly:
- with the local institutions and authorities, especially decentralized technical services at provincial (such as the Provincial Directorate of Education and Provincial Directorate of Health and Social Action) and district level (such as the Serviços de Educação et Serviços de saúde e acção social);
- with the national authorities as well as;
- with the AFD local office in Mozambique and the AFD Paris HQ.
For more information, visit AFD.