CALL FOR SMALL GRANT APPLICATION

CALL FOR SMALL GRANT APPLICATION:
Women United for Economic Empowerment (WUEE) is a non-governmental organization with a mission to promote women/children rights, human development to the rural/urban poor women, youth, children and other vulnerable groups. WUEE in partnership with United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) announces a Call for small grant application for interested and eligible CSOs/CBOs in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States, on STRENTHENING GOOD GOVERANCE AND DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN NIGERIA
Purpose for Fund
The project seeks to increase the capacities of 20 civil CSOs/CBOs and Local Government Chairmen in order to help them fulfill their roles and responsibilities more effectively in a democratic system. It is meant to strengthen good governance and democratic processes at the local level in Nigeria and to increase citizen participation. The project shall be conducted in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States. Trained representatives of selected CSOs and CBOs shall in conjunction with local stakeholders organize civic education programs for Twenty Thousand (20,000) local citizens in their local communities (1,000 per CSO/CBO), in order to promote citizens’ understanding and participation in the democratic processes.
MINIMUM ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must:
Be Not-for-profit organizations.
Have expertise in governance programming.
Have presence in the Local Government/community in which the program will be conducted.
Be registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
Have a track record of working with indigenous women, youth, persons with disabilities (PWD).
Be willing to comply with all technical and financial requirements for participation in the program, including reporting and documentation of project activities, communication strategy and capacity development opportunities.
Be willing to participate in assessments, trainings, workshops, meetings and other activities considered important for achieving project goal.
REQUIREMENTS
Not more than five (5) pages of narrative proposal including a detailed monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) plan and proposed activities.
A detailed project budget as an appendix.
A copy of CAC certificate and evidence of other relevant registration documents
SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
Interested organizations should forward soft copies of their grant proposals, budgets and other appendices to Women United for Economic Empowerment (WUEE) via email to: wuee2002@yahoo.com or wuee2002@gmail.com. Applications must be received not later than Thursday, 13th August, 2020 at 16.00 hrs. No late application will be accepted.

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