Deadline: 15-Jun-23
The U.S. Consulate General Chennai, India / Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announced an open competition for organizations to submit applications to implement a national campaign titled “Strengthening Institutions Combatting Gender Based Violence (GBV).
This project will convene like-minded partners from government agencies, law enforcement, the judiciary, and civil society/NGOs to share culturally appropriate, context-sensitive, and survivor-centered best practices, and identify synergies in their efforts to combat Gender Based Violence (GBV) in India.
This includes prevention, quick response and mitigation, protection, and recovery of survivors. This campaign will target a core group of mid to senior-level representatives from national and state law enforcement agencies, the judiciary, judicial academies, policy makers, civil society organizations, NGOs, and community groups who work in specific and shared geographic areas across India on GBV issues.
GBV survivors will play a key role in the campaign to share their powerful journeys from being a victim, to becoming a survivor, to advocating against GBV. The project will explore models of successful partnerships and best practices in the United States that may be adopted and tailored for nation-wide scale-up to achieve the common goal of preventing and mitigating GBV, ensuring the swift rescue and rehabilitation of survivors, and appropriate judicial action against the perpetrators.
Project Goal: Indian participants will learn about efforts in the United States to better integrate action among key stakeholders and adapt U.S. best practices in their efforts to prevent and mitigate GBV.
Program Objectives: By December 2024, at least 75 participating government and non-government actors (including survivors) from across India will each establish one new mechanism or best practice to regularize cooperative action against GBV. This will be evidenced by best practices (because of this project) adopted as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) by state and national level governmental agencies and included in the gender sensitization and training manuals developed by NGOs, state, and national police academies as well as judicial training academies across India.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $100,000
- Award Ceiling: $100,000
- Award Floor: $75,000
- Length of performance period: up to 12 months
Priority Region: India
Project Audience(s): The primary audience for this project will broadly include the following four categories and will be selected from all over India:
- Representatives of Civil Society Organizations, NGOs, youth networks, faith-based leaders, and community groups focused on combatting GBV.
- Survivors of GBV.
- Judges, magistrates, lawyers, legal experts working on GBV issues and influencing policies.
- Federal/Central and state government agencies such the National and State Commission for Women, Department of Women and Child Development and other related agencies.
- Law enforcement/police officials, representatives from the national and state level police training academies
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants: The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations.
- Public and private educational institutions
- Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions
- Cost Sharing or Matching: Cost sharing or matching is not required for this funding.
- Other Eligibility Requirements: In order to be eligible to receive an award, all organizations must have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number.
- India based organization should be F.C.R.A. compliant. Applicants should be familiar with India’s Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and confirm their ability to meet all proposed program requirements and expectations.
For more information, visit U.S. Mission to India.