Deadline: ongoing | Call for Applications: Rapid Response Window on Women’s Participation | RRW – Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund
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The Rapid Response Window on Women’s Participation in Peace Processes and Peace Agreements
A Rapid Response Window (RRW) has been established by the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) to fill the financing gap for women’s participation in official peace processes and the implementation of peace agreements.
In order to expand women’s involvement in formal peace processes at the national, subnational, and international levels, the WPHF RRW provides funding for strategic, short-term, and urgent programs and initiatives run by women peacebuilders and women’s civil society organizations. The WPHF RRW is not meant to fund medium- or long-term peacebuilding projects, nor does it promote community-focused programs.
Tracks
Track 1
high-level decision-making process including national governments, committees, or special envoys from multilateral regional organizations or country leadership, which is frequently chaired by the UN. Ceasefires, national dialogues, the drafting of peace treaties, political transitions, and international mediation are a few examples.
Track 2
A Track 1 process is designed to be influenced, advised on, or supplemented by actions or communications between influential individuals. Building stakeholder trust, enhancing communication, or improving community support for the peace process or peace agreement implementation are some examples of how to do this. For instance, dialogues, conferences, workshops, or forums that bring together women peacebuilders, civil society representatives, community leaders, other experts, and mediators with decision-makers, national leadership, and the international community.
Financial Streams
The WPHF-RRW is accepting ideas for initiatives with a maximum period of 6 months on two accessible streams from women peacebuilders and Civil Society Organizations.
Direct Support (up to $25,000 USD; this is not a grant, and the beneficiaries will not get any money):
Requests for logistical and/or technical assistance that the WPHF’s RRW will pay for directly. Translation services, child care, accessibility for people with disabilities, document printing and design, travel costs, and employing a consultant to undertake training or data collecting and analysis are examples of the kinds of projects that might be used. Please be aware that these services must be connected to the Track I and Track II or implementation of a peace agreement or other activity linked to a peace process.
For a CSO, there is no requirement for official registration. Applications are encouraged from individuals, unofficial groups, and networks of women’s organizations, including networks of women mediators.
Grants for the short term, up to $100,000:
Accepting requests for grants to implement projects that address the RRW’s objectives and are backed by INGO partners. Advocacy campaigns for women’s participation in peace negotiations, capacity-building workshops for women taking part in decision-making processes, strategic planning to reach out to and engage with important decision-makers, organizing and drafting participatory declarations to influence a peace process, mechanisms to monitor the gender provisions of a peace agreement, etc. are examples of the kind of initiatives that can be undertaken. Please be aware that these initiatives must be connected to a peace process (Track I and Track II or the implementation of a peace agreement).
Only CSOs are eligible to apply for this stream, and registration in writing is required. Please be aware that registration is not required to be completed in the intervention project’s country.
Eligibility requirements
- Official Development Assistance (ODA) qualified nations with a formal continuing peace process (Track 1 and 2) at the national, subnational, and international level are welcome to submit qualifying concept notes to the WPHF-RRW.
- Individual women peacebuilders, national, regional, and local women’s rights organizations, organizations focusing on young people or led by young women, feminist civil society organizations, and networks of women mediators can all apply for direct support. CSO coalitions are also eligible.
- Feminist civil society organizations, youth-focused organizations, and organizations led by young women are all eligible to apply for Short Term Grants. CSO coalitions are also eligible.
- Please take note that applicants for a ShortTerm Grant must be current WPHF grantees who have received Direct Support.
- Women’s Rights or Feminist Organization: The organization must be committed to tackling various/intersecting kinds of discrimination as well as furthering gender equality and women’s rights. This dedication must be reflected in the organization’s official purpose and vision statements. The organization must work to change the underlying causes, processes, and structures, such as sexism and gendered power relations.
- Women-Led Organization: The organization’s director or CEO must be a woman.
- Organization That Is “Youth Focused”: In order for an organization to be deemed “youth focused,” its fundamental mission and vision must center on promoting the social, economic, and political engagement of young people of both sexes as well as combating various, intersecting types of prejudice that are directed at them. WPHF will pay special attention to youth-focused organizations that promote gender equality, encourage young women, and work to establish peace.
- Organizations led by young women must have a director or chief executive officer who is between the ages of 18 and 29. Women who work to prevent and end violent conflicts, defend civilians, and build peace are considered women peacebuilders (for direct support). Women human rights defenders, members of truth-and-reconciliation committees, and participants in demobilization, disarmament, and reinsertion initiatives are a few examples.
Ineligible
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating internationally;
Governmental organizations, institutions, UN agencies, UN Country Teams, businesses, academic institutions, think tanks, political parties, and municipal governments are just a few examples.
Visit the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) website for further details.
