NEPAD Calls For Women’s Empowerment

(BuaNews)-The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has made a second call for proposals under the NEPAD-Spanish Fund for Empowerment of Women.

The NEPAD-Spanish fund, which was signed earlier this year between NEPAD and the Spanish Government, is to empower African women by unlocking their economic potential, fight poverty and close gender gaps.

The NEPAD Secretariat will receive support through the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI).

On behalf of the NEPAD/AECI Steering Committee, the NEPAD Secretariat is inviting proposals, for implementing the project from institutions involved in programmes that contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and attaining sustainable development.

The eight MDGs are eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empower women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a Global Partnership for Development.

The prescribed application format should contain characteristics such as the purpose, beneficiaries, duration of the projects to be financed (up to six months), proposed budget, geographical location and thematic priority.

Applications will be accepted from legally constituted:

* African non-governmental organisations (NGOs),

* African governments, including national, local governmental agencies and NEPAD country structures,

* Local associations and networks of women entrepreneurs,

* Community-based organisations (CBOs) and community cooperatives,

* African education and research institutions,

* Regional bodies/networks/cooperatives,

* Women’s groups/networks in Africa and

* African women’s funds and foundations.

The objective of the criteria is to help applicants demonstrate their key competences in implementing the project and should include the suitability to the sector-based and geographic priority lines in announcing proposals.

Proposals submitted should also have technical quality, valuing innovative actions and those that include the suitable indicators to measure the progress achieved, broken down by gender.

The proposals should among others focus on the high impact of action in protecting women’s rights, fighting poverty, eliminating gender inequality and increasing the capacity, enhancing empowerment and creating equal opportunities for African women.

All applications should be addressed to the Steering Committee and be submitted electronically to the NEPAD Secretariat by 1pm on 15 January 2008.

Full details are now available on both the NEPAD website at (http://www.nepad.org) and the Spanish and African Women’s Network website (http://www.mujeresporunmundomejor.org).

The detailed format in which the concept identification notes should be submitted is available on both websites in English, French and Portuguese.

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