Indigenous Women's Fund - Who Can Apply?
Grantmaking Guidelines
Taking into account the unequal distribution of power, wealth, and resources both within and across nations, the Fund will attempt to balance its grantmaking in the 7 geo-cultural regions defined by the Untied Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Africa, Arctic, Asia, Eastern Europe/Central Asia/the Caucasus, Latin America/Caribbean, North America, and the Pacific.
The following guidelines will be used for groups to apply for grants from the Indigenous Women's Fund:
- The Indigenous Women's Fund is for the advancement of Indigenous women's rights in the context of Indigenous peoples rights, respecting and recognizing the different ways in which Indigenous women organize
- Applicants must promote the rights of Indigenous women
- Applicants must address the particular perspectives and challenges that Indigenous women face in their communities and promote women's rights
- Applicants must be Indigenous women's organizations working in the Fund's grantmaking areas of economic empowerment & community development, environment & sustainable development, information & community technology, or Indigenous women's health & education
- Groups that submit proposals may work at the local, national, or international level
- Proposals may be presented by a single organization or as a collaboration among several groups
The Indigenous Women's Fund will not make grants to:
- Groups that do not have the participation of Indigenous women in significant leadership and/or management roles
- Work that does not have Indigenous women's individual and/or collective rights as a primary component
- Political parties, women's wings of political parties, or election campaigns
- Non Indigenous governmental organizations
- Individuals attending conferences or trainings with no plan for follow-up with other Indigenous women
The Fund will also train Indigenous women's organizations to conduct their own fundraising, and support their management capacity so that groups will be able to find additional support for their work.
DOCUMENTS TO APPLY TO INDIGENOUS WOMEN´S FUND
The International Indigenous Women´s Forum (IIWF/FIMI) in its commitment to the empowerment of Indigenous women´s human rights and Indigenous peoples collective human rights around the world, is pleased to open the first Indigenous Women´s Fund Call for Proposals from 15 October 2009 to 15 January 2010.
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