Collective Action to Reduce Gender-Based Violence: Small grants program

Grants can be used to build the capacity to generate solutions that elevate the role of staff wellness and resiliency in promoting high-quality, sustainable, and survivor-centered gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response programming; fill global data gaps related to GBV; and promote learning.

Grants should focus on one or more of the following learning questions:

What are promising practices for addressing staff resiliency and wellness in GBV-serving organizations?
What are promising practices for adapting GBV standalone and integrated programs that incorporate lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic?
How can the evidence base on GBV prevention and social norms support improving the response to GBV for survivors, their families, and communities?

USAID’s Collective Action to Reduce Gender-Based Violence (CARE-GBV) activity seeks innovative concept note applications for small grants from qualified U.S. and non-U.S. organizations.

Grants should focus on one or more of the following learning questions:

What are promising practices for addressing staff resiliency and wellness in GBV-serving organizations?
What are promising practices for adapting GBV standalone and integrated programs that incorporate lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic?
How can the evidence base on GBV prevention and social norms support improving the response to GBV for survivors, their families, and communities?

General informations

Themes

Capacity building

Target population:

Employees of associations

Period:

12 months or less

Budget:

Individual grants between $50,000 to $125,000.

Funders:

USAID (CARE-GBV)

Eligibility criteria:

Eligible organizations include:

U.S. nongovernmental organizations
Non-U.S. nongovernmental organizations
Community based organizations (e.g., youth groups, women groups, etc.)
Civil society organizations
Professional associations
Universities
For-profit organizations, so long as no fee is proposed as part of any grant activity

Organizations must be officially registered as a legal entity and working in compliance with all applicable local laws and statutes. If an organization is not legally registered, the organization can show proof of effort to secure registration, exemption from registration, or show cause and justify why such registration would be harmful, with supporting documentation, as applicable.

The following will be considered favorably for funding:

Concept notes that present innovative ideas to provide solutions responsive to this grant program’s purpose, learning objectives, and focus areas
Concept notes that are based on proven and effective solutions
Concept notes that highlight the needs of marginalized women and girls, including those with disabilities, indigenous peoples, ethnic or religious minorities, or members of the LBTQI+ community.
Applications from organizations that are feminist, women-, LBTQI+- or survivor-led
Concept notes that propose generating learning that can serve the global community working to improve GBV prevention and response
Concept notes that propose partnerships promoting mentoring and model diversity, inclusion, and equity

How to apply?

Submit Applications by 10:00 a.m. ET on March 17, 2021.

Documents:

Download the entire call for project here