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The Netherlands Accountability Fund is designed to strengthen the lobby and advocacy capacity of  local Civil Society Organisations (CSO’s) in the South.

The Minister encourages the Dutch Embassies to contact local women’s organisations and to come up with new or additional proposals for 2016. On our side, we encourage local organisations within the FLOW-community in low income and low middle income countries to contact the Dutch Embassies in their countries and inquire about the possibilities. The Taskforce for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will assist embassies to realize this additional effort on women’s rights and gender equality. Embassies may get help by organizing a scoping mission or the execution of a gender analysis, for example. The requirements to the proposals are not very prescriptive nor extensive to allow access of smaller local CSO’s. Applicants may count on support to facilitate proposals, where needed.

Please take note that proposals for 2016 should be submitted preferably no later than 30 June. The Dutch Embassy in your country will be able to inform you about the requirements and possibilities

South Asia Women’s Fund is committed to supporting women’s organisations and activists working towards realising women’s human rights in the South Asian region. Through its grant making portfolios, SAWF provides access to resources for women-led interventions in Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, with a special focus on critical issues, disadvantaged and marginalised women, working within difficult contexts and circumstances.

The call for applications is open from 1st June – 30th June 2016. Applicants are invited to apply under any of our themes (details below). You can download our Letter of Interest (LoI) format here or from http://www.sawf.info/grant.php

Completed LoIs should be emailed to sawfrgp@sawf.info no later than the 30th of June 2016.

Gender-based research, innovation and development for sustainable economies and societal wellbeing

More info and submission here.

The GS9 Europe invites abstracts on the following themes:

• Environment and quality of human life (e.g. pollution and climate change effects on the lives of women and men)
• Sex and gender dynamics in ecosystem services (e.g. sustainable production of fish or plants for food, protecting biodiversity)
• Sex-gender effects in research, innovation and development (e.g. differences in results and outcomes for women and men)
• Sex-gender knowledge in science curriculum and researcher training (e.g. clinical medicine, safety engineering, research standards)
• Gender in decision-making and leadership (e.g. research teams, assessment of excellence, academic governance)
• Gender analysis for design and implementation of policy (e.g. open science and innovation, sustainable development)
• Scientific understanding of sex and gender (e.g. at molecular, cell, physiological, and socio-cultural levels)

Deadline: 1 July 2016, 23:59pm CET