Call for Proposals in Malawi for Grants to Support Women Organisations

Call for Proposals in Malawi for Grants to Support Women Organisations

The Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund is pleased to announce its first call for proposal to achieve peaceful and gender equal societies in Malawi.

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 Netherlands and Norway), as well as 4 Civil Society Organizations (currently Cordaid, GNWP, APWAPS and WANEP).

The Spotlight Initiative recently launched eight comprehensive Country Programmes in Africa with a USD 158 million investment in Liberia, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

In 2019, the Spotlight initiative and the WPHF will partner in six countries (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda) to channel quality funding to small, local and grassroots women-led and women’s rights organizations, as well as women’s funds, contributing to results under Outcome Area 6 of the Initiative’s Theory of Change.

The grants will focus particularly on ending violence against women and promoting women’s human rights and gender equality in peace and security contexts.

The focus of the WPHF Spotlight call will be on women-led, women’s rights organizations representing and working on behalf of groups facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, such as those marginalized and excluded due to poverty, ethnicity, disability, age, geography, migratory status, HIV status, among others, which is in clear alignment with the 2030 Agenda and the principle of leaving no one behind in EVAW programming.

Outcomes

The project(s) must contribute to both of the following Outcome areas: