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The French Development Agency (AFD) launches this call for proposals to fund civil society organizations (CSOs) for the implementation of a financing mechanism, for strengthening and structuring feminist organizations in partner countries of France’s international development and solidarity policy, whose activity has gender equality as its main objective in the said countries in which AFD is mandated to intervene.

Objectives

• Strengthen security and respect in the digital environment:

  • Prevention of VBGFT through better education of children, adolescents and young adults in the use of digital tools and the risks associated with VBGFT.

  • Training of people targeted by VBGFT to equip them with the skills necessary to secure their digital presence and maintain autonomous and safest online engagement possible.

  • Strengthening the cybersecurity of vulnerable and targeted CSOs, in particularFeminist CSOs (appropriation and development of technologies by civil society and feminist movements).

• Support for victims, monitoring of witnesses and aggressors

  • Development of support and guidance services for victims of VBGFT, with an intersectional approach.

  • Awareness and monitoring of (potential) aggressors.

• Knowledge production & advocacy:

  • Data collection, behavior analysis and documentation of violence.

  •  Development of evidence-based advocacy strategies to influence public policies and promote legal frameworks

  • adapted to protection against GBV.

Funding Information

• The total amount of the project is €4 million to €6 million.

• The project will last three to four years, with the possibility of funding feminist civil society organizations for varying durations, depending on the sub-projects, within this overall framework.

Components

• Provision of Flexible Financing at the Cso Level

• Strengthening the Technical Capacities of Csos

• Capitalization, Sharing of Practices and Networking

Eligibility

• The consortium will propose a team suited to project management, with the following skills:

  • Expertise and/or experience in issues related to the prevention and fight against GBV, including awareness-raising and education of the general population and targeted individuals in particular, victim protection and support (legal, psychological, and technological aspects), knowledge production and dissemination, and advocacy with authorities;

  • Digital skills or the ability to identify relevant service providers for the deployment of user training, advocacy, and/or solution development;

  • Experience in facilitating gender-transformative programs using a rights-based approach, using an inclusive approach that takes into account factors of multidimensional inequalities;

  • Prior experience in partnering with feminist civil society organizations, networking, and funding their activities;

  • Ability to deploy communication channels with local and community CSOs in various contexts;

  • Skills in community and civil society organization capacity building and identification of best practices;

  • Prior experience in action research/capitalization (intellectual production, South-South knowledge sharing)/advocacy, influence, and political action;

  • In-depth knowledge of the ecosystems of the proposed countries of intervention;

  • Proven administrative and financial management skills across multiple and varied geographic areas;

  • Operational skills/multi-stakeholder project management, including in remote intervention areas

Post Date: July 01, 2025