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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