Applications Invited for Menstrual Health and Hygiene

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The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) funds, supports and accelerates the transitions to a fairer and more sustainable world.

Focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban development, health and governance, our teams carry out more than 4,000 projects in France’s overseas departments and territories and another 115 countries. In this way, we contribute to the commitment of France and French people to support the sustainable development goals.

About the Grant

AFD is lauching a multi-country call for proposals on Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH). This call for projects aims at recruiting a consortium of CSOs that will build and implement a financing mechanism (intermediated fund) for local feminist CSOs and SSEs in different countries. The overall objective: to support the action of feminist CSOs and SSEs in French development policy partner countries. The project will pursue a goal of improving menstrual health and hygiene for women and girls, especially the most vulnerable, using a rights-based approach and taking into account the multidimensional factors of inequality. It will also aims at enlarging the scope of action and expertise of local feminist CSOs on this topic.

Size

EUR 9.8 million grant

To be eligible, the proposal must be based on the total budget envelope of EUR 9.8 million.

Eligibility

The “Menstrual Health and Hygiene” call for proposals aims to finance an intermediated fund supported by associations:

• National or international, structured in consortium, and working in partnership with local entities;
• Meeting the definition specified in the FSOF 2020-2022 Strategic and Accountability Framework, namely: “feminist civil society organizations in all their diversity, whether formally constituted or not, whose objective is to act in favor of gender equality and to transform sustainable social relations based on gender, and especially those whose main mission is to defend and promote the effective rights and emancipation of women and girls”;
• With proven expertise in menstrual health and hygiene;
• Having experience in facilitating transformational mechanisms on gender, using a rights-based approach, according to an inclusive approach taking into account the factors of multidimensional inequalities;
• Having prior experience of partnering with feminist civil society organizations and possibly feminist SSE, networking and financing their activities;
• Having the capacity to deploy communication channels with local and community CSOs and SSEs in various contexts;
• Having expertise in building community capacity and civil society organizations, and identifying good practices;
• Having previous experience in research & action / capitalization (intellectual production, south-south knowledge sharing) / advocacy, influence and political action;
• Having detailed knowledge of the ecosystems in the proposed intervention countries;
• Demonstrating administrative and financial management capabilities across multiple and diverse geographic areas;
• Having operational capacities / managing multi-stakeholder projects, including in remote intervention areas.

How to Apply

Closing of the call: July, 5th 2023 at 8 am CET

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