Deadline: 28 February 2014
Birdlife International is inviting project proposals from non-governmental organizations for ‘Women in Healthy Sustainable Societies-East Africa’ Small Grants program. The aim of the grant program is to further global and local understanding and practice of gender equality and women’s empowerment in coordination with the environment. The announcement focuses on a set of high-biodiversity sites in East Africa: the Eastern Afromontane Hot-spot Key Biodiversity Areas.
The projects should link women’s empowerment or gender equality with aspects of the environment; enhance existing environmental programs; and address at least one of the priority areas.
Priority Areas –
- Community-based capacity building, education and awareness that supports women’s involvement and benefit-sharing in environmentally-related activities.
- Influencing policy-level decision making around gender equality and women’s empowerment in the environment.
- Information sharing and networking between practitioners and organizations working on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- Research to demonstrate benefits of incorporating women into environmental decision making and inform best practices.
Eligibility Criteria –
- Non-governmental organizations, community groups, private enterprises, universities and other civil society organizations that propose to build capacity of local civil society and community groups are eligible to apply.
- Proposed projects must be located in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in the Key Biodiversity Areas.
- Organizations must have their own bank account and be authorized under relevant national laws to receive charitable contributions.
- Proposed project should not be asking grant for the purchase of land, involuntary resettlement of people, or activities that negatively affect physical cultural resources; activities adversely affecting Indigenous Peoples or where these communities have not provided their broad support to the project activities; or the removal or alteration of any physical cultural property.
For more information, please visit CI Women in Healthy Sustainable Societies – Call for Proposals page.
