Global Support for Women’s Economic Empowerment – Access and Reform Implementation by Civil Society

The goals are to grow and sustain the leadership of women’s civil society organizations in improving the enabling environment for women’s full and free participation in the economy, including through support to women-led advocacy for legal, regulatory, and policy reform; implementation of such reform; accountability for such reforms; and reduction of social and cultural barriers.

Applicants should propose objectives that:

Support an enabling environment for WEE: Advance WEE efforts to improve the enabling environment for women’s full and free participation in the economy in no fewer than two countries and regions. This may include support for advocacy and programmatic efforts targeting the development of legal, regulatory, and policy reform; implementation of such reform; accountability for reforms; and reduction of social and cultural barriers to promote an enabling environment for women’s full and free participation in the economy.
Support to women’s civil society organizations: Partner equitably with a range of local women’s civil society organizations advancing locally designed WEE efforts, including but not limited to organizational capacity-building and technical assistance to advance civil society organizations’ core growth and sustainability.

Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) has announced a Request for Statements of Interest (RSOI) outlining concepts and capacity to manage a program that will partner equitably with a range of local, women’s civil society organizations, in no fewer than two countries and regions to advance women’s economic empowerment (WEE) by reducing barriers to women’s participation in the economy.

Applicants should propose objectives that:

Support an enabling environment for WEE: Advance WEE efforts to improve the enabling environment for women’s full and free participation in the economy in no fewer than two countries and regions. This may include support for advocacy and programmatic efforts targeting the development of legal, regulatory, and policy reform; implementation of such reform; accountability for reforms; and reduction of social and cultural barriers to promote an enabling environment for women’s full and free participation in the economy.
Support to women’s civil society organizations: Partner equitably with a range of local women’s civil society organizations advancing locally designed WEE efforts, including but not limited to organizational capacity-building and technical assistance to advance civil society organizations’ core growth and sustainability.

General informations

Themes

Capacity building
Advocacy
Entrepreneurship

Target population:

Employees of associations
Women

Period:

Up to five years

Budget:

$3,000,000

Funders:

Office of Global Women's Issues (US.Department of state)

Eligibility criteria:

Organizations submitting SOIs must meet the following criteria:

Be a U.S.- or foreign-based non-profit/non-governmental organization (NGO); or
Be a private, public, or state institution of higher education; and
Have existing, or the capacity to develop, active and equitable partnerships with in-country partners, entities, and relevant stakeholders, including NGOs and private sector actors; and
Have demonstrable experience administering successful and preferably similar programs in size, scope, and focus. S/GWI reserves the right to request additional background information on organizations that do not have previous experience administering federal awards. These applicants may be subject to limited funding on a pilot basis.

How to apply?

All application submissions must be made electronically via SAMS Domestic (https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com). S/GWI will not accept SOIs submitted via grants.gov, email, fax, the postal system, delivery companies, or couriers.

Important documents:

SFOP0007656-Full Announcement – WEE RSOI.zip

RSOI Global WEE 2021 _ FINAL.pdf

Download the entire call for project here