Deadline: 28 February 2018
Women Fund Tanzania (WFT) is currently accepting small grants applications for project funds between Tsh 6,000,000.00 to Tsh 10,000,000/= for interventions addressing the following thematically areas which goes:
- Violence against women and young girls with a particular focus on addressing sexual corruption/sextortion issues.
- Economic rights of women including promotion of women’s and girl’s rights in the extractive industries, mining, gas, oil.
- Environmental justice rights for women and young girls projects for promoting voices of women and girls in addressing issues of climate change, land grabbing, land rights and water rights issues.
- Networking and coalition building interventions to strengthen the women’s movement (s) in Tanzania with a particular focus on inclusion young women and minority groups (women living with disabilities, HIV-AIDS, elderly women, etc.) in sectorial or broader women’s rights movement.
- Political and leadership rights of women with a particular focus on promoting young women issues into leadership.
- Projects promoting documenting her-stories/telling stories of women’s struggles/at individual and institutional level next to advocating for broader women and girls visibility through innovative approaches, intervention, especially in rural areas.
- Innovative projects on empowering and participatory community engagement approaches for enhancing girl’s educational rights.
- Innovative projects on empowering and participatory community engagement approaches for enhancing women and girls migrants’ rights.
Selection Criteria
The following selection criteria will be taken into account:
- 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 by the situation to be addressed.
- The Concept Note should reflect efforts towards building partnerships between women’s rights organisations at different levels with the purpose of forming/strengthening functional networks and coalitions for promoting women’s rights and empowerment.
- Sustainability, replicability and potential to demonstrate and document models that can be taken to larger scale.
How to Apply
- Application for Grant will follow a two-stage process:
- Submission of a Concept Note (5 pages max) describing the proposed idea/initiative to be implemented.
- Review/selection by WFT’s Selection Committee where after selected applicants will be invited to submit a full project proposal.
- Applicants can download the Concept Note format via given website.
Eligible Country: Tanzania
For more information, please visit Women Fund Tanzania.