Deadline: 15-Apr-22
UN Women is calling for applications for Small Grants for Women’s Civil Society Organizations (CSO) and Women-Led CSOs within the framework of the “Strengthening civil society capacities and multi-stakeholder partnerships to advance women’s rights and gender equality in Turkey” (short name- ‘Strong Civic Space for Gender Equality’) project implemented by UN Women Turkey with the financial support of the European Union.
Small Grants are intended exclusively to finance a limited range of eligible activities to support the development or strengthening of women’s CSOs and women-led CSOs’ institutional capacities. UN Women invites eligible applicants to submit Small Grants applications for the eligible activities, as elaborated in this advertisement.
Focus Areas
UN Women will solicit applications for Small Grants from women’s CSOs and women-led CSOs legally registered and operating in Turkey working in at least one of the following fields:
- Ending all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, including those facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination.
- Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
- Eliminating all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriages.
- Women’s unpaid care and domestic work.
- Women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels, including in the private sector.
- Women’s economic empowerment.
- Women’s access to enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology.
- Advocating for sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment.
- Women’s access to justice.
- Engagement of men, boys and youth in gender equality.
- Women’s participation and leadership in sports.
- Women’s poverty.
- Advancing the rights of women with vulnerabilities including but not limited to women with disabilities, migrant women, vulnerable groups of elderly women and Roma women as well as their access to human rights mechanisms and intergovernmental processes.
- Advancing women’s engagement in rural development.
- Empowering women with disabilities.
- Women and girls’ effective participation, influence and leadership in building sustainable peace and security, including through mediation.
- Advancing women’s and girls’ leadership, participation and equally benefiting from all aspects of climate change action, environmental and disaster risk reduction.
- Advancing women’s and girls’ participation and equally benefiting from humanitarian action.
- Production, analysis and dissemination of gender data and statistics for evidence-based advocacy and policy making.
- Gender-sensitive journalism and media.
Funding Information
- UN Women in Turkey plans to award several Small Grants to eligible civil society organizations (CSOs) in the range of USD 2,500 to USD 30,000.
- Duration: Up to 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicants must be a women’s civil society organization or a women-led civil society organization legally established and operating in Turkey.
- To be considered a “women’s civil society organization”, the organization must demonstrate that its core work is in the field of women’s rights, gender equality or women’s empowerment. The organization’s official mission and vision statements must reflect its commitment to pursuing gender equality, women’s rights or empowering women and girls.
- Women-led civil society organizations are those CSOs which are managed and led by women and serve primarily the interests of women and/or girls.
- The applicants should enclose copies of their statutes to their application.
- The applicant may apply if it:
- is a registered CSO in operation for at least three years;
- is not on the Consolidated UN Security Council Sanctions List ;
- is not being investigated for fraud, corruption, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or other
- wrongdoing;
- has not had funding received from UN Women entirely or partly written off by UN Women;
- is not currently engaged as an Implementing Partner (IP) or Responsible Party (RP) for UN Women;
- has not been engaged as an IP/RP for UN Women at any time after 21 November 2019;
- is not a government entity;
- is not a UN organization;
- is not an established CSO with the capacity to be engaged as an Implementing Partner/Responsible Party;
- has sufficient capacity to collaborate with various stakeholders;
- has sufficient financial stewardship, including having adequate financial policies and procedures in place to manage the Small Grant; and,
- past performance has been deemed satisfactory by UN Women (if it has received Small Grants previously or been engaged as an IP/RP before 21 November 2019).
For more information, visit https://eca.unwomen.org/en/stories/news/2022/03/call-for-applications-small-grants-for-womens-civil-society-organizations-in-turkey