UN Women Grant Announcement for Women Networks/CSOs based in Turkey

Deadline: 30-Apr-23

UN Women is providing needs-based and demand-driven technical and logistical support to existing and aspiring networks and platforms, and individual members or affiliates of women’s civil society organizations (CSOs) and women’s rights advocates in order to advance gender equality, women’s empowerment and the overall women’s rights agenda.

Types of Lot

• Lot I: Technical and/or logistical support to women’s networks and platforms Under this Lot, UN Women will provide support to minimum 5 women’s networks or platforms that are already existing or that will be newly established.
• Lot II: Technical and/or logistical support to individual members or affiliates of women’s civil society organizations and women’s rights advocates Under this Lot, UN Women will provide support to minimum 15 individual members or affiliates of women’s CSOs and/or women’s rights advocates.

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.
• Addressing 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 refugee response and humanitarian action.
• Production, analysis and dissemination of gender data and statistics for evidence-based advocacy and policy making.
• Monitoring public policies and services with a gender equality perspective.
• Gender- sensitive journalism and media.

Eligibility Criteria

• Women’s networks or platforms working in Turkey. Both existing and aspiring networks and platforms may submit requests
• Individual members or affiliates of women’s civil society organizations and women’s rights advocates based in Turkey

• Minimum 15 individual members or affiliates of women’s CSOs and/or women’s rights advocates, and
• Minimum 5 women’s networks or platforms that are already existing and those that aspire to establish such networks and platforms will be supported.

For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3KUhoS0