This Call for Applications is launched within the framework of the “Strengthening civil society capacities and multi-stakeholder partnerships to advance women’s rights and gender equality in Turkey” project implemented by UN Women Turkey with the financial support of the European Union.

• Ending all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, including those facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination.
• Eliminating all forms of violence against all women and girls.
• Eliminating all harmful practices, such as child, early and forces marriages.
• Women’s unpaid care and domestic work.
• Women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels.
• 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.
• Male engagement in gender equality.
• Women’s participation and leadership in sports.
• Women’s poverty.
• Advancing women’s and girls’ leadership, participation and equally benefiting from all aspects of peace, security, disaster risk reduction, and humanitarian action.

• UN Women in Turkey plans to award several Small Grants to eligible civil society organizations (CSOs) in the range of USD 2,500 to USD 30,000.
• Duration: Up to 12 months

• The applicants may apply for a Small Grant to cover the following activities:
• introducing and improving organizational systems, tools, and processes;
• training of workforce in technical and managerial skills;
• supporting with equipment such as copiers, scanners, printers, laptops and computers as long as the cost of such equipment is limited to 30% of the proposed Small Grant budget or USD 5,000, whichever is lower.

• The applicants must be a women’s civil society organization or a women-led civil society organization legally established and operating in Turkey.
• To be considered a “women’s civil society organization”, the organization must demonstrate that its core work is in the field of women’s rights, gender equality or women’s empowerment. The organization’s official mission and vision statements must reflect its commitment to pursuing gender equality, women’s rights or empowering women and girls.
• Women-led civil society organizations are those CSOs which are managed and led by women and serve primarily the interests of women and/or girls.
• The applicants should enclose copies of their statutes to their application.
• The applicant may apply if it:
  • is a registered CSO in operation for at least three years;
  • is not on the Consolidated UN Security Council Sanctions List;
  • is not being investigated for fraud, corruption, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or other wrongdoing;
  • has not had funding received from UN Women entirely or partly written off by UN Women;
  • is not currently engaged as an Implementing Partner (IP) or Responsible Party (RP) for UN Women;
  • has not been engaged as an IP/RP for UN Women at any time after 21 November 2019;
  • is not a government entity;
  • is not a UN organization;
  • is not an established CSO with the capacity to be engaged as an Implementing Partner/Responsible Party;
  • has sufficient capacity to collaborate with various stakeholders;
  • has sufficient financial stewardship, including having adequate financial policies and procedures in place to manage the Small Grant; and
  • past performance has been deemed satisfactory by UN Women (if it has received Small Grants previously or been engaged as an IP/RP before 21 November 2019)