Deadline: 30-Mar-23
UN Women has launched a Call for applications for Small Grants for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working on Women’s Participation in Leadership and Decision making at all levels under the ‘Ensuring Gender responsive Democratization Process in Ethiopia’.
The call for application has the aim of strengthening the institutional capacity of civil society organizations working in the area of increasing women’s participation and leadership. The grant is therefore expected to increase the resource and capacity of eligible CSOs to advance the rights of women to participate in public and political life and enable them to become agents of transformative change towards an equitable society.
Objectives
The main objective of the call for small grant is to strengthen the capacity of CSOs that work to promote women’s participation and leadership in governance and decision-making positions. The grant is therefore expected to increase the resource and capacity of eligible CSOs/WROs to advance the rights of women to participate in public and political life and enable them to become agents of transformative change towards an equitable society. By strengthening CSOs working on promotion of women’s participation and leadership, UN Women aims to support the interventions/initiatives in women’s participation in public and political life to create a cohesive, just, inclusive, and democratic society.
With its concerted effort to promote the participation and effective representation of women in leadership and decision making and support to CSOs working on the area, UN Women aims to ensure the fulfillment of the Outcome ‘All people in Ethiopia live in a cohesive, just, inclusive and democratic society’ of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2020-20253 3 , the UN Women Ethiopia Strategic Note 2021-2025 and Ethiopia’s Ten-Year Development Plan 2021-2030: a Pathway to Prosperity (2020/21-2029/30). It also aims to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable development goals Goal no 5 ‘Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls’ and specifically Target 5.5 ‘Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life’.
Funding Information
- Awarded Small Grantees shall submit combined financial and progress reports indicating the expenditure and progress on the performance of the Small Grant Agreement. If the amount of the Small Grant is USD 10,000 or less, the Small Grantee shall submit a combined financial and progress report at the end of the Small Grant Agreement.
- If the amount of the Small Grant is above USD 10,000USD, the Small Grantee shall submit a mid-term and a final combined financial and progress report. UN Women will follow up on implementation of the small grant activities and review financial and progress reports.
Eligible Activities
The applicant may apply for a small grant to cover the following activities:
- Introducing and improving organizational systems, tools, and processes.
- Training of workforce in technical and managerial skills.
- Purchase of equipment such as copiers, scanners, printers, laptops, and computers as long as the cost of such equipment is limited to 30% of the proposed small grant budget or USD 5,000, whichever is lower.
- The purpose of Small Grants is not to finance the delivery of a programmatic or project activity.
- There is no geographical limitation regarding the location and base of operation of the applicant CSOs.
- The implementation of the Small Grant must be completed within five months after signing the Small Grant Agreement for the purposes of this call.
- The CSOs awarded with Small Grants will benefit from further capacity development support, experience sharing, networking, dialogue, solidarity, and coalition building activities that are to be organized by UN Women.
Eligibility Criteria
The applicants must be a CSO legally established and operating in Ethiopia. To be considered for the small grant, the CSO must demonstrate that it works on women rights and gender equality in Ethiopia with a proven track record of working on the areas of women participation in public and political life including their participation in electoral processes. 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 30 November 2020.
- Is not a government entity.
- Is not a UN organization.
- Is not an established CSO with the capacity to be engaged as an IP/RP.
- 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 For purpose of this advertisement, applicant CSOs are encouraged to demonstrate in their application their organizational approach to the principles of leaving no one behind (LNOB) and in addressing intersecting forms of vulnerabilities (young women, women with disabilities, rural women, migrant women, women living with HIV, internally displaced women etc.)
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