WPHF launches Call for Proposals in Palestine

Deadline: 31-Jan-23

The Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) has launched a Call for Proposals in Palestine to support civil society organizations working to enhance meaningful participation and decision-making of women in conflict prevention processes.

Purpose

The overall purpose of this call for proposals is to provide grants to local women and young women’s civil society organizations in Palestine focused on increasing the meaningful participation and decision-making of women in conflict prevention processes and response in conflict and humanitarian contexts.
The call for proposals specifically contributes to WPHF Impact Area 2: Increased meaningful participation and decision-making of women in conflict prevention processes and response. It is aligned with the overall goal of contributing to peaceful and gender equal societies and UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.

Funding Streams

Institutional Funding: Stream 1 (USD $5,000 – $30,000)
- Aims to reinforce the institutional capacity of women’s rights/led organizations working on gender specific issues in peace and security and humanitarian contexts, to ensure they are able to sustain themselves and to improve their impact.
- It will finance a limited range of activities to support the development or strengthening of a CSO’s institutional capacity. The purpose of this funding stream IS NOT to finance programmatic activities.
Programmatic Funding: Stream 2 (USD $30,000 – $200,000)
- This funding stream will finance projects which aim specifically to fund programmatic activities aligned with the following impact area:
  - WPHF Impact area 2: Increased meaningful participation and decision-making of women in conflict prevention processes and response.
Duration: CSOs can apply for a maximum of 2 years.

Geographical Focus

The WPHF will fund qualifying projects in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. Qualified applicants from East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip are particularly encouraged to apply.
Multi-country projects, or projects outside the geographical focus will NOT be accepted.

Eligibility Criteria

An organization (lead applicant or co-implementing partners) can submit one application for institutional funding AND/OR one application for programmatic funding. Organizations who apply for both institutional and programmatic funding need to submit two separate applications packages based on the related templates of each stream.
In-country registered national, local/grassroots women or young women led, women’s rights, youth rights, feminist, or civil society organizations with a proven track record working with women, young women and girls are eligible to apply.
International non-governmental organizations can be partners as co-implementing or consortium partners, if the lead applicant meets the eligibility criteria.
Women’s Rights or Feminist Organization: The organization’s official mission/vision statement must reflect its commitment to addressing multiple/intersecting forms of discrimination and advancing gender equality and women’s rights. The organization must aim to address the underlying drivers/systems/structures, including patriarchy and gendered power dynamics, and work to transform these.
Women-Led Organization: must be headed by a woman as director/head of organization.
Youth Focused Organization: To be considered “youth focused”, the organization’s core mission/vision must focus on supporting the social, economic and political participation of young women and young men and addressing multiple/ intersecting forms of discrimination against young women and men. WPHF will provide specific attention to youth focused organizations supporting young women, advancing gender equality and peacebuilding.
Young Women Led Organization: must be headed by a young person aged between 18 – 29 years old who serves as director/head of organization
Applications can be submitted in English or Arabic. Only applications in these languages will be accepted.
WPHF accepts proposals for ongoing projects funded by other donors.
Joint projects with other local women’s rights, youth focused organizations, women or young women led civil society organizations are encouraged.