What is the purpose of the Fund for Gender Equality?
The Fund for Gender Equality is a multi-donor initiative dedicated to the advancement of high-impact gender equality programmes that focus on women’s economic and/or political empowerment at local and national levels. Significant advances have been made in securing national, regional and international commitments and corresponding strategies, plans, policies and laws to foster greater gender equality and women’s empowerment. However, progress in implementing these commitments and ensuring resources to implement them is uneven. The Fund aims to assist partners to convert these commitments and plans into concrete action at the country level with a focus on women’s economic and political empowerment. Through a competitive selection process, the Fund will accept applications from governmental and non-governmental organizations and/or partnerships between or within these sectors.
