Call for Applications for Small Grants for Women’s Civil Society Organizations (CSO) and CSOs working on Gender Equality under the “Strong Civic Space for Gender Equality Phase II” project implemented by UN Women

UN Women in Türkiye plans to award Small Grants to eligible civil society organizations (CSOs) in the range of USD 2,500 to USD 30,000. Small Grants are intended exclusively to finance a limited range of eligible activities to support the development or strengthening the institutional capacities of women’s civil society organizations (CSO) and CSOs working on gender equality. UN Women invites eligible applicants to submit Small Grants applications for the eligible activities, as elaborated in this advertisement. 
This Call for Applications is launched within the framework of  “Strong Civic Space for Gender Equality Phase II” project implemented by UN Women Türkiye with the financial support of the European Union.

UN Women will solicit applications for Small Grants from women’s CSOs and CSOs working on gender equality legally registered and operating in Türkiye working in at least one of the following fields:

• Ending all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, including those facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination.
• Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
• Eliminating all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriages.
• Women’s unpaid care and domestic work.
• Women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels, including in the private sector.
• Women’s economic empowerment.
• Women’s access to enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology.
• Advocating for sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment.
• Women’s access to justice.
• Engagement of men, boys and youth in gender equality.
• Women’s participation and leadership in sports.
• Women’s poverty.
• Advancing the rights of women with vulnerabilities including but not limited to women with disabilities, migrant women, vulnerable groups of elderly women and Roma women as well as their access to human rights mechanisms and intergovernmental processes.
• Empowering rural women.
• Empowering women with disabilities.
• Women and girls’ effective participation, influence and leadership in building sustainable peace and security, including through mediation.
• Advancing the gender equality agenda for all individuals, including diverse groups facing intersectional discrimination
• Advancing women’s and girls’ leadership, participation and equally benefiting from all aspects of climate change action, environmental and disaster risk reduction.
• Advancing women’s and girls’ participation and equally benefiting from humanitarian action.
• Production, analysis and dissemination of gender data and statistics for evidence-based advocacy and policy making.
• Gender- sensitive journalism and media.
• Empowerment of young women and girls 

Application deadline: 20 March 2025 by 23:59 pm Türkiye local time.

E-mail address for applications: turkey.procurement@unwomen.org.

An information meeting for the potential applicants was held online on 5 March 2025. The presentation from the information meeting can be found below.