WOMEN FUND TANZANIA-TRUST (WFT-TRUST)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR 2020 ON PROMOTION OF WOMEN, GIRLS AND CHILDREN RIGHTS IN TANZANIA
Women Fund Tanzania-Trust (WFT-Trust) is a grant making women’s rights fund that was registered in September 2008 and transformed into a Trustee in September 2019. The Fund focuses on supporting initiatives that are working towards promoting women, girls and children rights for empowerment and contributing towards growth of a strengthened girls and women’s movement in the country with a focus on promoting capacity enhancement on women’s and girls’ rights issues and agenda, strengthening networks and coalitions with approaches towards growth of intersectionality of women/girls and children rights, intergenerational initiatives, leadership and institutional development and through visibilising women’s contributions through media profiling and documenting Herstories.
WFT-Trust is inviting applications from legal entities promoting rights of women, girls and children to apply for funding through this call to work on the following thematical areas under its three funding windows:
• Movement building strengthening for enhanced capacity for organizing, advocacy and policy/legal engagement at different levels.
• Leadership and election rights for women and girls, including young women and other marginalized groups at local and national levels
• Economic empowerment rights for women and girls including enhancement of their rights to and participation of women and girls in the extractive industries (Mining, Oil, and Gas) through coalitions, VICOBA Platforms, women/girls’ farmers movement(s) and related others.
• Environmental justice and gender rights with interventions towards strengthening voices and participation of women, girls and children in addressing (policy) issues of climate change, deforestation, land and water rights and related others.
• Violence against women, girls and children with a particular focus on interventions addressing issues of sexual corruption/sextortion at different levels.
• Educational rights for women, girls and children at different contexts
• Research and documentation of selected initiatives including the “her” stories of women, girls and children for visibility and lessons of their contributions across the women’s movement.
• Special interventions including International/national women/girls’ commemoration days within the country such as 8th March, June 16 African Child day, International day of a Girl child October 11 and 16 Days of Activism, and 25 Years Post Beijing.
Grant Application Windows:
1. SMALL SCALE WINDOW (TSH 10,000,000 – TSH15,000,000)
Grass root Women Rights Organizations, Community Based Organizations, Registered Community Groupings and individual groups of activists but mostly based in rural and semi urban settings. This window is open mostly to emerging grassroots community groups, Women Rights Organizations’ feminist women rights organizations that are raising start-up funds, transitioning WOs and others and can be used for capacity building, awareness raising and for galvanizing social action in their communities.
Qualifying applicants may apply for grants under this window by considering the following;
• The duration of the intervention/project to be implemented between 0 to 3 months
• The intervention to be aimed at giving voice and visibility to women’s issues including marginalized women, special groups and vulnerable populations in local communities
• Mainly for first time applicants from community-based level
2. MEDIUM SCALE FUNDING WINDOW (TSH 16,000,000 – 50,000,000)
Project Proposal under this window should focus on initiatives for supporting women, girls and children rights organizations to build/strengthen relevant conceptual and organizational capacity, expertise, networking and knowledge sharing with the women and girls ’movement.
• The grant period should be between 6 months and 1 year
• Must aim at giving voice and visibility to marginalized women on marginalized issues as stipulated in the call for a proposal
• The window is open to women and girls’ initiatives at the local and national levels, which need funds for organizational strengthening or as a build-up on an initial grant to strengthen strategic alliances and networks in the women’s movement
• The recipients of the grants under this window must be legally registered entities such as WROs, WOs, Women groups, Community based activist groups and coalitions
• Have desired competencies to implement the project successfully
• Have sound record in both financial management and programmatic approaches
• Be grounded on the agenda and is rights based in approach
• Be women led meaning they should have a leadership which is predominantly women
3. STRATEGIC FUNDING WINDOW (TSH 51,000,000 – 250,000,000)
Under this window, we are looking to invest and partner with relatively large organizations as defined in brackets/or platforms ( National level Women Rights Organizations, Women Organizations with potential for movement building that includes reach, agenda setting and constituent base- building interventions) within the various women, girls and children’s movements possessing relevant institutional capacity, expertise, networking and local knowledge to work with other partners (both local and national) to strengthen women’s movement building strategies across the sectors
Within this frame, we are accepting proposals aimed at initiating and scaling up interventions that promote collective/joint advocacy actions, cross border platforms, writing skills development, networking and learning within the various sectors of women and girls’ movement/s in the country.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
Applicants should strive to reflect in their proposals key guiding principles for this call outlined below:
1. MISSION ALIGNED
Partners who share our aspiration of contributing towards elimination of discriminatory gender inequalities’ practices and processes through capacity enhancement and women movement building, and whose work fits within our identified thematical areas.
2. CLARITY ON THE ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED BY THE PROJECT
• The proposal should ensure strong link between the problem to be addressed and the strategies and measurable results anticipated from the project.
• The proposal should reflect a multi-stakeholder participation in formulation and implementation, (especially for window 2&3)
• The proposal should reflect efforts towards building partnerships between women’s rights organizations in different sectors of the movement with the purpose of forming/strengthening functional networks, coalitions and platforms.
• The proposal should demonstrate sustainability, innovativeness, replicability and potential to demonstrate and document models that can be taken to larger scale.
More Specific Requirements:
Application for these Grants will follow this process:
- Submission of a Concept Note (5-7 pages max) describing the proposed idea or initiative.
- Concept note submitted should have the following attachments: –
• Copy of registration
• Organizational constitution - You must fill in the forms for grant application available in WFT’s website: www.wft.or.tz. The forms are also available at WFT’s office (during working hours) located at Mikoroshini Street (Msasani) Dar es Salaam, house no. 659. The filled form should be emailed to: [email protected]
Those in envelopes should be addressed to:
• The Executive Director, WFT, P.O. Box 79235, Dar es Salaam
• Any inquiries should be made through mobile phone: +255 753 912130 - The deadline for submission shall be on Saturday, 29th February 2020 at 14:00 hours local time. Selected Organizations will be notified before 20th March, 2020. If you are not contacted by then, regard your application to have been unsuccessful.
