Deadline: 15 December 2017
Women Fund Tanzania (WFT) has announced a Special Call with the aim of providing small scale funding to local level community initiatives with a focus on migrant adolescent girls as well as women’s rights organizations/movements working in this area for promotion of adolescent girls issues in migrant situations in Tanzania.
WFT strongly believe that this small scale funding shall contribute towards transforming gender constraining and exploitative contexts under which migrant adolescent girls found themselves in different in the country. Such funding, shall also contribute significantly towards improved capacity of all reached beneficiaries, especially migrant adolescent girls as individuals or in their movements through the gained knowledge on their rights, confidence building, a capacity that is crucial in enabling them to believe in themselves and thus grow into own agencies in addressing inequalities within their surroundings and beyond.
Funding Information
Within this context, WFT will be accepting small grants applications for project funds between Tsh 5,000,000 -7,000,000/= for interventions that will address and contribute towards improved rights for migrant adolescent girls through:
- Initiatives that seek to empower participatory community engagement approaches for enhancing girl’s migrant’s educational rights.
- Initiatives that are aimed at improving capacity and empowerment levels of migrant adolescent girls and women’s movements for addressing their dis-empowering gender equality contexts in their communities in Tanzania.
- Initiatives that seek to enhanced conceptual clarity on women rights issues of migrant adolescent girls and women rights organizations/movement/s on issues of migration, gender equality and movement building for promotion of collective agenda on issues under focus.
Selection Criteria
- Quality of the submitted Concept Note, ensuring that there is a strong link between the problem to be addressed and the strategies and measurable results anticipated
- Relevant Institutional capacity to implement the proposed project
- The Concept Note should reflect a multi-stakeholder participation in formulation and implementation, including those most affected such as victims of migrant situations, including sexual violence/corruption or those affected by economic poverty in different ways
- The Concept Note should reflect efforts towards building partnerships between women’s rights organisations in the selected communities under focus with the purpose of forming/strengthening functional networks and coalitions for promoting women’s rights and empowerment through movements
- Sustainability, replicability and potential to demonstrate and document models that can be taken to larger scale
- Innovativeness of the proposed project/activities
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their Concept Notes either via email, postage or deliver physically at the address given on the website.
Eligible Country: Tanzania
For more information, please visit Women Fund Tanzania.