Co-Impact to Award Up to $20M in Grants to Advance Gender Equality and Women’s Leadership

Co-Impact has opened a call for applications for a grant through its Gender Fund to initiatives working to advance gender equality and promote women’s leadership across the Global South.

The organization looks to raising and deploying up to 1 billion US dollars, through the fund. It will support locally rooted organizations working to make systems just and inclusive and advance women’s leadership at all levels.

Grants will be awarded to initiatives that:

• Focus on systems change intending to improve gender-equitable outcomes and women’s leadership. This should cover health, education, and economic opportunity sectors, and/ or institutional change to advance women’s ability to enter, rise to, and thrive in leadership positions in the academic and professional domains of law and/or economics.

• Are deeply rooted in the Global South. 100% of the grants will go to Global South and locally rooted organizations in the countries listed below:

• • Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa.
  • Asia: India, Indonesia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
  • Latin America: Brazil, Mexico, and Peru.

• Are led by organizations that bring feminist approaches to the core of their initiatives. At least 75% of the grants will go to women-led organizations.

Co-Impact recognizes that there are multiple ways to advance gender equality. Through the open call, Co-Impact invites applications from Global South and locally rooted organizations.

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The organizations include civil society groups, think tanks and academic institutions, professional associations and networks, women’s rights groups, and feminist and allied movements, among others.

Three types of grants will be awarded ranging from USD 1 million to USD 20 million, allocated over a 3-to-6-year period.

“We are excited about this open call and recognize the critical role that women’s rights organizations and feminist movements play in advancing gender equality. I believe that together, we can move towards the common goal of making systems just and inclusive for women and girls to rise to and thrive in leadership positions at all levels,” said Olivia Leland, Founder, and CEO of Co-Impact.

Full details of the criteria and process can be found in English here – https://bit.ly/3oD0HCj (also available in six additional languages). Concept notes submission will be accepted until 20 December 2021.