Deadline: 7 May 2020
The U.S. Department of State, the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) announces a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for a new agreement to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities by supporting initiatives that make decision-making structures and processes in fragile, crisis, conflict-affected, or post-conflict contexts more inclusive and reflective of and responsive to the needs and perspectives of women and girls.
Under this NOFO, S/GWI seeks proposals that will support the leadership of and collaboration with women’s networks in conflict prevention, transformation, and peacebuilding efforts in crisis- and conflict-affected areas.
S/GWI seeks applicants whose work fosters women’s leadership in preventing and mitigating conflict by making decision-making more reflective of and responsive to the needs and perspectives of conflict-affected women and girls.
S/GWI will analyze this program to inform other USG partnerships and to better integrate gender equality and empowering women and girls across the Department, thereby enhancing effectiveness and maximizing taxpayer investments in U.S. foreign policy.
Beneficiaries could include, but are not limited to, women from the following countries:
- the Western Hemisphere: Colombia, Venezuela;
- Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan;
- Europe: Ukraine;
- the Middle East and North Africa: Iraq, Syria, Yemen;
- South and Central Asia: Afghanistan, Sri Lanka;
- East Asia and the Pacific: Burma, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Priority will be given to proposals that include women from Sudan and areas affected by extremist organizations.
Theory of Change: If the local perspectives of conflict-affected women and girls are incorporated into decision-making, then conflict prevention, resolution, and mitigation will be more equitable, just, and sustainable.
Goal: To promote inclusive decision-making that responds to the comprehensive needs and perspectives of conflict-affected women and girls.
Objectives and Intended Results
- Networks: Support existing women’s civil society networks to inject local expertise and needs into decision-making, including but not limited to ceasefire talks, peace negotiations, crisis mediation, political transitions, and/or policy, to transform the inequalities, gendered and otherwise, that drive conflict.
- Intended Results 1: Women’s civil society networks have relationships and trust with diverse communities of conflict-affected women and girls to legitimately amplify their needs and perspectives
- Intended Results 2: Women’s civil society networks have the technical knowledge, skills, and confidence to advance participatory solutions that transform the inequalities that drive conflict
- Intended Results 3:Women’s civil society networks safely influence decision-making, including but not limited to ceasefire talks, peace negotiations and/or peace accord implementation, crisis mediation, political transitions, and/or policy
- Collaboration: Incentivize collaboration within and/or between existing women’s civil society networks to implement joint initiatives, overcome divisions, and strengthen their collective influence and capabilities.
- Intended Results 4:Women’s civil society networks work together towards joint aims
- Learning and exchange: Strengthen peer-to-peer learning, peer-led capacity building, and cultivation of future generations of peacebuilders.
- Intended Results 5:Women’s civil society networks, young and old, learn and grow together
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $3,000,000
- Approximate Project Duration: Up to five years
- Approximate Number of Awards: 1 or 2
Eligibility Criteria
- S/GWI welcomes applications from educational and research institutions; U.S. not-forprofit/non-governmental organizations (NGOs) subject to section 501 (c) (3) of the U.S. tax code, and foreign not-for-profits/NGOs/social enterprises.
- If applicants determine that a consortium of expert organizations should implement the work, they must submit a list of their proposed partners, each of whom must also meet the eligibility criteria.
- Applications that do not meet the eligibility by the time of an application deadline will not be reviewed. Applicants may submit only one proposal in response to this NOFO. If multiple proposals are received from the same applicant, all submissions will be declared ineligible and receive no further consideration in the review process.
- The Department of State is committed to an anti-discrimination policy in all of its programs and activities and welcomes proposals irrespective of applicants’ race, ethnicity, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
- Program activities must take place outside the United States.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326094