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CALL FOR PROPOSALS - ADDRESSING THE
SITUATION OF WOMEN & GIRLS WITH DISABILITIES IN POST-CONFLICT COUNTRIES
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION - DECEMBER 5, 2011
The Open Society Foundations’ International Women’s Program and the Disability Rights Initiative announce a call for proposals addressing the situation of women and girls with disabilities in the following post-conflict countries: Nepal, Palestine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Colombia. Only proposals from these countries will be considered for support.
We invite proposals focusing on one or more of the following objectives:
1.) Reducing discrimination and violence against women and girls with disabilities. We seek to support efforts that improve the status of women and girls with disabilities by:
2) Strengthening access to justice for women and girls with disabilities. We seek to support efforts that strengthen judicial responses to rights violations against women and girls with disabilities and reduce their obstacles to accessing justice by ensuring:
3) Increasing women’s and girls’ with disabilities self-determination and role as decision-makers and leaders. We seek to support efforts that encourage and increase women’s and girls’ with disabilities role as decision-makers by:
Please note: The Open Society Foundations does not provide funding for electoral purposes.
Preference is given to:
Organizations can apply for one to three year grants from $25,000 to $200,000 per year. Please note that multi-year proposals require an annual assessment report from the grantee, which is used to inform the Foundations' decision whether to obligate the subsequent tranche of funds.
Proposals must be received using the accompanying narrative and financial proposal templates in English by email (preferred), fax or mail on or by December 5, 2011. Incomplete proposals or those received after December 5 will not be considered.
Please email the completed templates to: iwpdri@sorosny.org. Please write: December 2011 Call, the country of focus, and your organization’s name in the subject line of your email.
If your organization does not have email access, please fax or mail the application to:
International Women’s Program
Open Society Foundations
400 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019, USA
Fax: 1.646.557.2601
Successful applicants will be notified of a decision within six months.