The WVL project is a
five-year project funded by Global Affairs Canada. The project is aimed at
tackling the barriers to gender equality and supporting the empowerment of
women and girls through the provision of technical and financial resources to
local feminist/women’s rights organizations that are advancing the rights of
women and girls and championing gender equality.
Coronavirus disease (COVID19) has declared a
public health emergency of international concern as the virus continues to
spread. In Nigeria, the index COVID-19 case was reported on 27th February 2020,
and since then, the virus has continued to spread and with some fatalities. The
Federal and State governments through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
(NCDC) had put in place precautionary measures to curb the spread of the virus
through the closure of all of Nigeria’s land borders, restriction of
international flights, closure of all schools and tertiary institutions, and
stay-at-home order.
Violence against women and
girls in Nigeria is pervasive. Available evidence shows that 3 in every 10
Nigerian women have experienced physical violence by age 15 through either
early or forced marriages, physical, mental or sexual assault.
Purpose of the Grant
This grant is for the
provision of critical protection services for vulnerable women and girls within
and Post Covid-19 Period in Nigeria. It is a small grant designed to support
LWROs to implement actions that will lead to women and girls living in reduced
violence or fear of violence by supporting victims and survivors of
gender-based violence to access protection services. These services may include
provision of legal aid services, short-term shelter services, medical support,
emergency support to indigent women and girls, women with a disability and
elderly women; and ending FGM. In addition, actions such as consciousness
building using traditional and new media, evidence gathering on VAWG, and
advocacy for implementation of VAWG related legislation may be supported.
Multiple Layers of Funding
The project seeks to
provide funding to over 120 LWROs in Nigeria that are providing services and or
advocating for gender equality through the provision of multiple layers of funding:
- Multi-Year grants to 100 women’s groups: this is a 5-year predictable
funding arrangement aimed at supporting the core mandates of 100 Local
Women’s Rights Organizations (LWROs) and Networks at the state and
national levels, and Community Based Organizations at the community level.
This provision allows beneficiary organizations to continue implementation
of either an on-going intervention or new interventions in the Women’s
Rights space.
- Strategic Innovation Fund: this fund is designed to support innovative ideas and initiatives from Women’s Rights Organizations beyond the project states.
The funding opportunity targets innovative ideas that can serve as a
catalyst for new ways of doing things within the Women’s Rights movement in Nigeria. This grant is announced on yearly basis.
- Strategic Opportunity Fund: The purpose of this grant is to allow for Local Women
Rights Organizations (LWROs) to be agile in responding to women and girls’
rights issues. It is set up as a rapid response fund that can be
quickly accessed by organizations/movements/networks in the promotion and
protection of women's and girls’ rights.
- COVID- 19 Top-up Grant: this is a top-up a fund for LWROs irrespective of the project
state to support women and girls live with reduced violence or fear of it
within and post COVID-19 period in Nigeria. This grant is designed for
LWROS to provide critical protection services for vulnerable women and
girls within and Post Covid-19 Period in Nigeria.
Funding Information
- Up
to 10 applications will be granted with grant ceiling between NGN
5,000,000 and 7,000,000 each to be implemented not later than February
2021.
Note
- Only
women-led women’s rights organizations will be considered for this
application.
- Only
1 application per organization will be considered.
- Only
shortlisted organizations will be notified, due to the volume of applications
that may be received.
- The
initial shortlist may not amount to being signed onto this project.
- ActionAid
will not be responsible for any cost you may incur during the development
of the Concept Note.
- A
guidance on SHEA, Anticorruption, Terrorism, and Conflict will apply in
this process.
Post Date - 27-Jul-2020