Deadline: 4-Nov-22
UN Women in partnership with the Spotlight Initiative is launching a Call for Proposals for a Responsible Party to undertake Grant-Making Work for Women’s Civil Society Organizations in Afghanistan – through the provision of programming grants and capacity development support.
This aims to rebuild and strengthen the organizational resilience of women’s rights and women-led organizations including small and grassroots CSOs that are at the forefront of reaching women and girls at the community level.
UN Women is seeking a Responsible Party (RP) to implement grant-making work for women’s rights, women-led organizations including small and grassroots CSOs in Afghanistan – through the provision of programming grants and capacity development support. The rationale for seeking an RP as a Grantmaker is to localize grant-making and simplify the application process for women’s organizations and providing opportunities and technical support to smaller and less established grassroots organizations and groups in Afghanistan.
Objectives
The objectives of the grant-making work are.
- to provide an agile and flexible grant-making mechanism that responds to the varied local dynamics and changes that women rights, women led and small women’s CSOs are facing in Afghanistan,
- to support innovative and strategic initiatives by CSOs that address women’s issues and needs in Afghanistan, and,
- to support the development or strengthening of the institutional capacity of CSOs through technical and skills-building support.
Funding Information
The budget for this proposal should be a minimum of USD $500,000 and a maximum US$ 1.0 million (1,000,000 USD).
Eligibility Criteria
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), and Non-UN Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) with;
- Experience and expertise in managing and implementing grant-making work and managing and monitoring the performance of grant recipients.
- Proven capacity (programmatic, financial, management & systems) needed to undertake this role and is committed to carrying out activities under this CfP.
- Specialized knowledge and expertise of working on women’s issues
- Relevant history in working with small organizations, including experience in providing technical assistance.
- Women’s rights and women led organisations including small and grassroot organizations are strongly encouraged to apply.
- The applicant must be legally registered in Afghanistan. In-country organizations will be prioritised. Organisations headquartered outside Afghanistan are welcome to apply only if they have a sub-office or country presence and legal registration in Afghanistan.
Ineligible
The following are NOT eligible to apply to this call for proposal
- the applicant does not have legal status in Afghanistan;
- the applicant is on the Consolidated UN Security Council Sanctions list;
- the applicant is being investigated for fraud, corruption, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or other wrongdoing;
- the applicant has funding received from UN Women entirely or partly written off by UN Women;
- the applicant is a government agency or institution, UN agency, private individuals, or a private sector entity.
For more information, visit https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/programme-implementation/2022/10/unw-ap-afg-cfp-2022-003-un-women-aco-call-for-proposals-for-responsible-parties-spotlight-initiative