Deadline: 03-Jun-2024
The U.S. Embassy Niamey of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to increase women’s participation in security decision-making in Maradi Region.
Prospective projects should respond to the following objective:
- Women leaders in Maradi Region will increase and institutionalize their leadership in community policing and security decision-making by 2026.
- Prospective projects should reflect a strong strategic vision with clearly defined procedures for institutionalizing women’s leadership in community policing and peace and security decision-making. Prospective projects should build on previous women-led peacebuilding interventions in Maradi Region—particularly those led by the Martaba Network—and work with local women leaders who have been already trained on mediation skills and countering violent extremism (CVE). Applicants are strongly encouraged against holding new trainings for local women leaders and are instead advised to work with local women leaders who have previously received mediation and CVE training. Applicants are advised to focus on strategic activities that advance women’s integration into local peace process mediation.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 75,000
- Award Ceiling: $75,000
- Award Floor: $75,000
Possible project activities include:
- Rapid gender inclusion assessment of Maradi Region community policing and security decision-making
- Gender inclusion strategy development for Maradi Region community policing and security decision-making
- Advocacy meetings to implement a security decision-making gender inclusion strategy
- Gender-inclusive peace monitoring
- Public gender inclusion sensitization activities
Participants and Audiences
- The successful applicant will work with the Martaba Network of women community leaders in Maradi Region. The successful applicant will build on pre-existing relationships with local and national Nigerien authorities, community leaders, and women’s leaders in Maradi Region to manage a broad coalition of partners critical to successful gender inclusion.
Priority Region
- Maradi Region
Eligibility Criteria
- Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations, are eligible to apply.
- Priority will be given to Nigerien not-for-profit organizations, especially those led by women and based in Diffa Region.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.