Grants for CSOs committed to promote gender equality

Call for Proposals to implement actions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine aimed at overcoming and addressing gender stereotypes and discriminatory social norms through behavioral change at the individual and community levels.

Submission deadline: 08 September 2021

This is a second round of the Call for Proposals that address civil society organizations of six Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) promoting gender equality, women’s empowerment, prevention and combating gender-based violence. The proposals are expected to suggest continuation of the initiatives started during the first round of the Call for Proposals, announced in 2020, or to suggest new initiatives that will contribute to tackling and combating gender stereotypes and adverse social norms as the underlying causes of gender inequality and violence against women as its most pervasive form. The initiatives, supported through this Call for Proposals, will be complementary to the activities implemented by UN Women and UNFPA under the joint project “EU 4 Gender Equality: Together against gender stereotypes and gender-based violence” project, funded by the European Union” in six project countries.

Contact information

• Contact person’s name: Olga Osaulenko
• Email address: olga.osaulenko@unwomen.org

More details: https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2021/08/unw-eca-eca-cfp-2021-001