Regional Fund: Inviting Applications from Women’s and Feminist CSOs in LAC

Deadline: 24-Jan-22

The Regional Fund for Women’s and Feminist Organizations and Movements is making this first call for the submission of grant applications to women’s and feminist civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The objective is to support women’s and feminist organizations and movements in the Latin American and Caribbean region to develop projects that contribute to the achievement of gender equality, women’s autonomy, and their access to fundamental rights throughout Latin America and the Caribbean within the framework of the Regional Gender Agenda in coordination with machineries for the advancement of women.

Proposals may be aimed at:

Introduce and improve organizational systems, tools, and processes.
Strengthen skills, particularly in technical and managerial skills; and/or,
To support equipment such as photocopiers, scanners, printers, laptops, and computers provided that the cost of such equipment is limited to 30 per cent of the proposed grant budget.

The Regional Fund for Women’s and Feminist Organizations and Movements, which emerges within the framework of the ECLAC Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), are making this first call for the submission of grant applications to women’s and feminist civil society organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Funding Information

Grants for this call are limited to a maximum of $10,000 per women’s and feminist organization or movement for a period of no more than 4 months.

Eligibility Criteria

The applicant Organizations and the Women and Feminists Movements (OWFM) may request a grant to cover the following activities linked to capacity building strategies of the OWFM to contribute to the achievement of gender equality, women’s economic, physical and decision-making autonomy and the guarantee of women’s rights in line with the commitments of the Regional Gender Agenda agreed in the framework of the ECLAC Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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