The WVL Nigeria Project Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) is a small grant designed to support innovative ideas and initiatives addressing women and girls’ rights issues from feminist organizations and/or women’s rights organizations or movements in Nigeria. The funding opportunity targets innovative ideas which can serve as a catalyst for new ways of doing things towards achieving gender equality and or women and girls enjoying their rights.
About the Project:
The WVL Nigeria project (Women’s Voice and Leadership Nigeria) is a five-year project funded by Global Affairs Canada. The project is aimed at tackling the barriers to gender equality and supporting the empowerment of women and girls through provision of technical and financial resources to local feminist/women’s rights organization (LWROs) that are advancing the rights of women and girls and championing gender equality.
Since 2020, LWROs from the six project implementing states (Lagos, Kwara, Enugu, Kebbi, Bauchi and the Federal Capital Territory) and more, received SIF Grant to implement innovative projects. These innovative projects included actions that addressed sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls, advancing women’s political participation, and increasing girl’s enrolment and retention in secondary schools. These innovative projects have included a wide range of women and girls focused interventions aimed at contributing towards the enjoyment of human rights by women and girls and advancing gender equality in Nigeria.
Benefits from WVL Nigeria project
The WVL Nigeria Project is seeking to award at least 2 women’s rights organizations with a small grant to test, pilot or scale up their innovative idea. The Innovative idea must contribute to women and girls enjoying their rights in project location.
Award Ceiling: Grant range – NGN1,000,000 to NGN2,500,000, and must be implemented within a 6-month to 1-year period.
Please Note:
- Only women-led and women focused organizations will be considered for this application.
- Only 1 application per organization will be considered.
- Only shortlisted organizations will be contacted due to volume of applications that may be received. However, all applications will be acknowledged through an automated email that requires No Reply from applicants. Kindly note that this does not amount to being pre-selected.
- The initial shortlist may also not amount to being signed onto this project, as AAN will conduct due diligence before award of grant.
- Action Aid Nigeria will not be responsible for any cost you may incur during the development of the Concept Note.
- AAN guidance on SHEA, Anticorruption, Terrorism and Conflict will apply in this process.
Application and Submission deadline:
Application ends on the 22nd July 2023.
How to apply For WVL Nigeria project
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