Deadline: 11-Sep-20
UN Women has announced a Call to support civil society advocacy and response to the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on women and girls in all their diversity.
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) have embarked on a new, global, multi-year initiative focused on eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) – The Spotlight Initiative. The Spotlight Initiative is so named as it brings focused attention to the issue of violence against women and girls, moving it into the spotlight and placing it at the centre of efforts to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In the Pacific, the Spotlight Initiative has one Pacific Regional Programme and four Country Programmes (Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu). The focus of the Spotlight Initiative is Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Domestic Violence (DV).
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office is the Technical Lead Agency and an implementing agency for the Spotlight Initiative Pacific Regional programme. This call for Small Grants is implemented by UN Women’s Ending Violence Against Women and Girls section as part of the Regional. Programme.
UN Women’s Small Grants are designed to support institutional strengthening and capacity-building, especially for smaller organisations. This call specifically supports civil society advocacy and response efforts in smaller Pacific Island Countries to address COVID-19’s socio-economic impact on women and girls in all their diversity. Expressions of interest that focus on intersectional issues and/or communities most impacted (e.g. rural women and girls, young people, women and girls with disabilities, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming communities etc.) is highly encouraged.
Objectives
- To understand the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on women and girls
- To strengthen advocacy for women and girls in light of the impact of COVID-19
- To build coalitions and capacities within civil society networks to better advocate for women and girls
- To ensure presence, accessibility and safety of services for survivors of violence, including crisis center services; SRH; services for people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity etc.
- Capacity-building of essential frontline workers.
Funding Information
UN Women welcomes expressions of interest between $5,000 USD to $15,000 USD from civil society organizations (CSOs) engaged in and committed to ending violence against women and girls.
Eligibility Criteria
Civil society organizations engaged in and committed to ending violence against women and girls including: delivering gender-based violence services, sexual and reproductive justice, economic rights, disability justice, LGBTQIA+/sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) rights, climate and environmental issues etc.
- the applicant is a registered CSO in operation for at least three years;
- the applicant is not on the Consolidated UN Security Council Sanctions List;
- the applicant is not being investigated for fraud, corruption, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or other wrongdoing;
- the applicant is not currently engaged with UN Women as a Partner or has not been engaged with UN Women as a Partner any time after November 2019;
- if a previous Partner, the applicant has a prior positive working experience as a partner for UN Women implemented projects;
- the applicant is not a government entity, a UN organization or an established CSO with the capacity to be engaged as a Partner;
- the applicant has sufficient capacity to collaborate with various stakeholders;
- the applicant has sufficient financial stewardship, including having adequate financial policies and procedures in place to manage the small grant; and,
- the applicant’s past performance has been deemed satisfactory (if the CSO has received funding from UN Women before).
Eligible Countries
- Cook Islands, Republic of Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Nauru, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga and Tuvalu
For more information, visit https://www2.unwomen.org/-/media/field%20office%20eseasia/docs/tor/2020/08/covid-19%20small%20grant%20notice_final.pdf?la=en&vs=1814
