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Direct Link to 14-Page Brochure, Including Eligible Countries:
UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality Issues Call for Proposals
Innovative civil society initiatives seeking to spur women’s
economic and/or political empowerment are invited to apply for funding.
UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality is pleased to announce its
third Call for Proposals.
This year the Fund welcomes submissions from women-led civil society
organizations with innovative, high-impact, and multi-stakeholder women’s
rights and gender equality programmes that help jumpstart progress towards
the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
The Fund will grant applications in the areas of:
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Women’s economic empowerment: Can include efforts to expand
women’s equal opportunities to access and control economic resources, promote
women’s sustainable entrepreneurship, access to decent work and equal pay, and
shared responsibility within the household.
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Women’s political empowerment: Can include efforts to promote
women’s full and effective leadership and political participation at all levels
of decision-making and in all spheres of life, or initiatives to help design,
enforce and implement new and existing gender equality laws and policies, or to
shift social norms and practices toward greater respect for and enjoyment of
women’s equal rights.
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UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality was launched in 2009 to
accelerate implementation of gender equality commitments worldwide. It is the
organization’s leading global grant mechanism and multi-donor Fund dedicated to
rights-based programming in the two overlapping thematic areas of women’s
economic and political empowerment. Since 2009, the Fund has disbursed over USD
56 million to fund 96 programmes in 72 countries.
Interested applicants are encouraged to read the carefully and
start preparing for the online application process,
open from 9 March to 5 April 2015.