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The UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to End Violence Against Women- Call for Proposals 2008

UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women is launching its annual call for proposals for 2008.The call continues to focus on supporting the implementation of national policies, laws and actions plans on ending violence against women and highlights the following categories of grant making.

a) Meeting the Implementation and Upscaling Challenge that envisions making grants to support larger-scale initiatives at national, sub-national and local levels based on multi-sector, multi-stakeholder partnerships and is intended to take to scale promising or already proven approaches on ending violence against women and girls.

b) Supporting Catalytic, Innovative and Learning initiatives with grants for programmes focused on expanding the global knowledge base on effective approaches to implement national laws and/or plans of actions by supporting the piloting, testing, evaluation, documentation and dissemination of innovative or promising approaches on ending violence against women and girls.

Interested governments, civil society organisations and UN Country Teams in partnership with governments and NGO’s from developing countries and countries in trasition are invited to submit initial concept notes (max. 5 pages), that meet with the core principles and focus of the call. The relevant documents relating to the call are listed below for your easy reference. Please note the deadline for receipt of concept of notes is 26 May 2008.

For more information you can Contact:
Joy Tonawai, Program Coordinator or Sally Cobb, Assistant program Coordinator
Concept Note Form
2008 Call for Proposal
Budget Summary
Contact Information

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is the women’s fund at the United Nations. UNIFEM was created in 1976 by the United Nations General Assembly as a voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women. The Fund became an organization in autonomous association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1985.

With its headquarters in New York, UNIFEM works in more than 100 countries, and has 15 regional offices in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Arab States, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS). UNIFEM works with governments and non-government organizations to support and achieve gender equality, bring more women’s voices into the development process, and increase the accountability of government to gender concerns. UNIFEM is committed to efforts towards the fulfillment of the Beijing Platform for Action; CEDAW; Millennium Development Goals; and UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

UNIFEM PACIFIC REGIONAL OFFICE

UNIFEM Pacific became a regional office in 1997 after 6 years of operating under the Regional Office for Asia, Pacific based in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Pacific Regional Office serves the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

The UNIFEM Pacific office is headed by Regional Programme Director, Elizabeth Cox, who is assisted by programme, operations and administrative and occasional consultants, drawn as much as possible from expertise in the region.

From 2008 – 2011 UNIFEM Pacific will focus on

• Reducing the prevalence of violence and HIV
• Governance, Peace and Security
• Enhancing women’s economic and security rights
• Advancing Gender Equality in Political Governance
• Supporting Government Action on progressing Gender Equality.

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Programme: Advancing Gender Equality in Political Governance(GEPG) in the Pacific

Please click on the following links below:
Terms of Reference
Personal History Form(P.11)
Results Based CV

CEDAW Legislative Compliance In Nine Pacific Island Countries

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Please click Here for a version of our most recent publication on the CEDAW legislative indicators which was a
joint production with the UNDP Pacific Center
“Translating CEDAW into Law”