UN Women Singapore and MasterCard have started a joint initiative called “PROJECT INSPIRE: 5 Minutes to Change the World” to help you create a better world of opportunities for women and girls in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.
The initiative is inviting submissions of life-changing ideas on how to make a difference. If you have an inspirational idea that can empower women, improve their livelihoods and change the world, then you can submit it here. If your idea gets selected, you can win US $25,000 to make it a reality.
The idea should be creative and should make a meaningful impact with the limited resources you have. It should be practical enough and must inspire others to do the same. It should be accessible, doable, measurable and sustainable. The idea should lead to the empowerment of disadvantaged women or girls through education, skills training, financial inclusion and social entrepreneurship.
Ideas should be submitted in form of a video running for a length of five minutes. Applicants sending the submissions should be 18-35 years old.
Besides the winner getting the $25,000 grant, there will be a special recognition to the Best Financial Literacy/ Livelihood proposal which will win a start-up grant of US$10,000. Finalists will get an opportunity to come to Singapore to present their inspiring idea to an expert judging panel. You will also attend a workshop on sustainable social entrepreneurship and presentation skills training.
Submissions are open from 8 March – 30 June 2011. For more information, visit this link.
this is a really good work helping women and ovc’s ,this will go a long way helping children education and empowering women through out the world and expecially in Benue state. keep it up.
Sir/Madam; do I need to fill an application form, if so, please can i have the form? Also, how does the video CD gets to you
Thanks.
Rita from Cameroon
I really thank God Almighty for this brilliant idea to assist women in these areas of the world where the female child is still really vulnerable. i work in a faith-based organization in Cameroon,Africa.
Here, activities are really being done in this area of helping women, but i think the failure comes from the fact that little is being done concerning the root causes to the problems faced: HIV/AIDS infection, single parenthood, family separation, lesser economic empowerment of women, etc.
We can all agree that when faced with a withered tree or a tree that has bore bad fruits, leaching all resources on the branches, leaves, and fruits (being the effects of a problem), will bring out little and tentative results; but if the roots of the tree (being the causative agents of the problem) are well taken care of so that they can tap the resources for the well-being of the whole tree, will bring out a greater and sustainable outcome.
i therefore wish that at the end of this contest, we will have a project that will first see to the root causes of the problems women face, before attaining to their effects
Thanks
Rita
I’m much impressed with your call for inspirational project ideas that will empower women so that they enjoy thier full rights, potential, ownership of resources and equal powers just like men despite thier sexual orientation and cultural/perceptional differences.
I’m the Executive Director of a civil society organization called Development Path For Community Transformation (DEPCOT)and we, very much buy your call for the above proposal however we would like some detailed explaination on submission which you said must be in video form.
Also, we request that you to help us get link with other development partnerers.
we operate in Northen Uganda and our Vision is ‘an empowered society with improved quality of life’
Cheers
Idea: Seeking gender justice at domestic level
Thank you so much. Me – from USWO Organization (Minority rights and gender empowerment based organization in Somaliland); well, it would be great inspirational change to seek gender justice at domestic level, because there have been long missing rights and cultural legacy discrimination against the voiceless minority women in Somaliland as follows:
1. Minority women/girls are double discriminated by majority clans and their own husbands;
2. They don’t have the right to be educated, employed, nor do they have a proper health services for the vulnerability left by the discrimination;
3. Have no the opportunity to address out their rights; because of, being illiterate and voiceless;
4. They are internally displaced population and live in poverty;
5. They are always trafficked for modern slavery, sexual/prostitute exploitation and human organ removal acts;
As USWO organization, above mentioned issued would be eliminated through conducting inspirational attitude changes and issues as follows:
1. Create income generation activities through vocational skill training centers; in order to, minimize poverty;
2. Mobilize state authority, country law/decision-makers and legislations to review and address minority gender rights at national policy level to eliminate discriminatory norms against minority women; (including the role of human rights organizations/institutions at grass root level)
3. Create education opportunities for them and;
4. Detailed so and so on… ;
Idea: Seeking gender justice at domestic level
Thank you so much. Me – from USWO Organization (Minority rights and gender empowerment based organization in Somaliland); well, it would be great inspirational change to seek gender justice at domestic level, because there have been long missing rights and cultural legacy discrimination against the voiceless minority women in Somaliland as follows:
1. Minority women/girls are double discriminated by majority clans and their own husbands;
2. They don’t have the right to be educated, employed, nor do they have a proper health services for the vulnerability left by the discrimination;
3. Have no the opportunity to address out their rights; because of, being illiterate and voiceless;
4. They are internally displaced population and live in poverty;
5. They are always trafficked for modern slavery, sexual/prostitute exploitation and human organ removal acts;
As USWO organization, above mentioned issued would be eliminated through conducting inspirational attitude changes and issues as follows:
1. Create income generation activities through vocational skill training centers; in order to, minimize poverty;
2. Mobilize state authority, country law/decision-makers and legislations to review and address minority gender rights at national policy level to eliminate discriminatory norms against minority women; (including the role of human rights organizations/institutions at grass root level)
3. Create education opportunities for them and;
4. Detailed so and so on… ;
Well wishes to all of you because you are woking in Positive direction but as social work student (student because till death we are still learning)I focus on low/No cost development to make them self-dependent.
thanks & Regards
Sushil
Really this is a great effort to make women empower. I have a idea but problem to form in video mode. I am from social sector working for last 8 years and have done master in social work from BHU (University). We can do empower to women and family to through low cast development. Family or women itself generate fund and they will work for better future.
For example:
Village- XYZ
Total house hold- 950
Step to generate fund:
Step-1- One village level meeting will be organized and one people from each family will be medatory to attend the meeting.
Step-2- Discussion points in the meeting
• Development of women status,
• Development of family status,
• Employment to women,
• Status of health, education and livelihood will be well.
Step-3- We will select one director, one secretary and one treasurer, 7 people will be in decision making and monitoring the work.
Step-4- Each family will collect 50 rupees ($1.21) every month.
Step-5- Every month village will have 47,500 ($1158)
Step-6- After 6 month village will have 285000 ($6951)
Step-7- Whole family will select 100 families who don’t have source of income and listing will be in from of whole village.
Step-8- Each 100 families will get 2,000 ($48) to buy goat or start small shop @ 5% interest.
Step- 9- Village will distribute 2, 00,000 to 100 families.
Step-10- Source of income for village is:
a. Every month Rupees 50 from each family.
b. 5% interest from 100 families.
c. Donation if village has reach family.
d. Bank Interest from bank of collected money.
Step-11- Again next time village will select other 100 families for same process.
Every time village will generate fund anf time to time selection of 100 families will be benefited.
thanks for yoru helping for poor pepale in the world, so that we are in somalia so we need to get for international support, the heard offfice our oraganizaton is Hargeisa north west of somali regions
thanks very much
Dear Sir/Madam,
We have the great honor would like to introduce you that the Khmer Kampuchea Krom for Human Rights and Development Association (KKKHRDA) is an independent, unexploited, non-profitable, and non-governmental agency. It was initially created by the groups of people with genuine willingness and national spirit who support human rights, democracy, and rule of law.
VISION
Khmer Kampuchea Krom people live legally with the respects of basic rights and freedom, decent livelihoods, dignity, progress, and harmony.
MISSION
KKKHRDA’s mission is aimed at working with the Khmer Kampuchea Krom people through dissemination of knowledge, education and skills, establishment of community networks, intervention, and advocacy for human rights and democracy.
GOAL
The program is intended to promote community peace through the reduction of conflicts and discrimination, increase knowledge of human rights and relevant laws and provide skills to meet the people’s needs.
Value:
KKKHRDA believes that:
• All policies and projects are developed and implemented with gender equity and equality;
• Both association and community are responsible for all forms of work, self-disciplined, and effectively flexible; and
• Demonstrate firm commitment and genuine willingness in the implementation of its activities with high responsibility and effectiveness.
Through this introduction, please may you kindly tell us do the NGOs in Cambodia have the eligibility to seek funding from the UN Women’s project.
With Respectfully,
SON Chumchuon
Senior Program Coordinator
Khmer Kampuchea Krom people and vulnerable youth
live legally with the respects of basic rights and freedom,
decent livelihoods, dignity, progress, and harmony.
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Kouk Khleang Village,Phnom Penh Thmey, Commune, Sen Sok
District, Phnom Penh.