Deadline: 21 August 2019
Applicants are invited to submit their proposals for Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) & Spotlight Initiative to achieve peaceful and gender equal societies. Achievement of this goal will require that women are empowered to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from conflict prevention, crisis response, peacebuilding, and recovery.
Composed of representatives from donors, United Nations entities, and civil society organizations, the WPHF is a global pooled funding mechanism which aims to re-energize action and stimulate a significant increase in financing for women’s participation, leadership, and empowerment in peace and security processes and humanitarian response. The WPHF is a flexible and rapid financing mechanism. It supports quality interventions designed to enhance the capacity of local women to prevent conflict, respond to crises and emergencies, and seize key peacebuilding opportunities.
The WPHF is governed by a Funding Board at the global level, which is comprised of four UN entities (currently UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and PBSO), four donor Member States (currently Austria, Canada, the Netherlandsand Norway), as well as 4 Civil Society Organizations (currently Cordaid, GNWP, APWAPS and WANEP).
Functions
The WPHF has three main functions:
- First, it breaks silos between humanitarian, peace, security, and development finance by investing in enhancing women’s engagement, leadership, and empowerment across all phases of crisis, peace and security, and development.
- Second, it addresses structural funding gaps for women’s participation in key phases of crisis, peace and security, and development by improving the timeliness, predictability and flexibility of international assistance. Notably, it will ensure a timely investment in conflict prevention after receipt of early warning signals from women and will accelerate the dispersal of development assistance after successful peace negotiations.
- Third, it recognizes that peace cannot be created nor sustained without investment in civil society organizations. Therefore, the WPHFwill improve the coordination and policy coherence of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, by investing in strengthening civil society organizations, particularly in grassroots women’s organizations, with the required financial and technical support.
Outcomes
- Enacting and strengthening legislative and policy frameworks
- Building gender-responsive national and sub-national systems and institutions
- Supporting evidence-based prevention programmes to promote gender equitable social norms, attitudes and behaviors
- Establishing and strengthening available, accessible, acceptable, and quality essential services
- Ensuring quality, disaggregated and globally comparable data
- Strengthening and supporting women’s rights groups and autonomous civil society organizations
The WPHF, in partnership with the Spotlight initiative, will fund qualifying projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeriaand Uganda. The projects must focus on one country. Multi-country projects will NOT be accepted.
Funding Information
Project proposals should be for no less than US$20,000 and no more than US$200,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- National and local women led, or women’s rights focused civil society organizations are eligible to apply. Women’s grassroots/local/community-based organizations are particularly encouraged to apply. Joint CSOs projects are allowed and encouraged.
- Women’s funds are particularly encouraged to apply to expand the reach of the funding to a broader cross-section of civil society.
- The lead applicant organization must have legal status with the competent national authority in the eligible country of project implementation. Women’s funds that are not registered in the country of implementation may apply in partnership with a locally registered implementing partner as the lead applicant.
- A proof of legal registration (or legal status) is a required attachment for any grant application. Applications without clear proof of legal status will be considered incomplete and will be withdrawn from the application process. Note that articles of incorporation are not proof of legal status.
- Implementing partners that are part of a joint proposal, do not have to be legally registered as long as the lead applicant fulfils the requirement of legal registration in the country of project implementation.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=57751