Grants and Contributions

This project aims to support grassroots South Sudanese women’s organizations to support peacebuilding and reconciliation in their communities, through capacity building and providing small grants for their operations. South Sudan is at a critical moment, transitioning from conflict to post-conflict, with a fragile peace process in place. Women have played an essential role in the path to peace. This project works to further support enhancing gender mainstreaming and the integration of women and girls’ rights and experiences in South Sudan’s transitional institutions at the highest levels, through a Gender Advisor to the Special Envoy for the Inter-Governmental Authority of Development (IGAD).

Project activities include: (1) providing capacity building to women politicians and women’s organizations to meaningfully engage in the Revitalised Agreement of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS); and (2) ensuring gender-sensitivity of members to the R-ARCSS pre-transitional and transitional institutions, including in areas of protection, leadership and participation.

The project also aims to help bolster anti poaching efforts (through training, equipment, information management and mentorship) by strengthening a unit of officers from the ministry of water and forests and facilitating cooperation with other security forces. A community component also complements anti poaching efforts to encourage the participation of communities, the gathering of information, the resolution of conflicts and the development of income generating activities.

This project supports the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF), which was established in 2016 and is an innovative global partnership of the United Nations, governments and civil society organizations (CSOs). The WFPH works to empower women in precarious environments around the world, to be a force in crisis situations and to foster sustainable peace. The WPHF is active in 20 countries and has been supporting over 130 CSOs since its launch. This project works to strengthen CSOs in prevention, mediation and peacebuilding initiatives. The project also supports the creation of a new Rapid Response, which contributes to increasing women’s representation and formal leadership, and informal peace negotiations.

This project supports the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL) for the
preservation of its archives, and the promotion of its history and legacy. The Special Court for
Sierra Leone was a success story in the application of criminal law and brining perpetrators to
justice following the civil war in Sierra Leone. Its successor, the Residual Special Court for
Sierra Leone continued is legacy and this project will support the preservation of its archives
and promote its achievements. Access to the court’s history is critical to the prevention of
conflict, as it allows for free debate and discussion about the war, its causes and effects and
lessons learned, for all constituents of society.

Project activities include: (1) storing, preserving and using records and war related materials; (2) setting up electronic access to the public records; and (3) organizing an outreach and public education campaign to promote the archives nation-wide.

This project supports decision-makers within Track One negotiations with the goal of sustainable political peace settlements to reduce and end violent conflict. Inter-Mediate works to provide expert advice to senior leadership involved in peace processes on how to: (1) structure and manage difficult negotiations involving state and non-state armed groups; (2) balance multiple interests to establish the parameters of possible agreement; and (3) provide guarantees for the most vulnerable and excluded groups.

The project aims to improve sustainability and inclusivity of the peace process and Security Sector Reform and Governance Security Sector Reform and Governance (SSR/G) in Yemen. The project works to achieve this through conducting a series of dialogue sessions that aim to bring together Yemeni stakeholders to address challenges, and focus on reforming the security sector. Addressing immediate security issues and arrangements are a first priority for the dialogues. However, framing the way these are addressed within the longer-term SSR/G vision incentivise the parties to make progress in the short-term. The specific objectives of the project are centered on tangible progress in terms of shared understandings related to the necessary arrangements that may help progress towards an end to the current conflict, even if only through lowering tensions and stopping the actual fighting.

This project aims to increase the number of women police officers within the Haitian National Police (HNP), thereby contributing to improving security and peace in the country, particularly in the project’s target areas. Project activities aim to allow young women, primarily from at-risk areas where violence and insecurity are prevalent, to join the HNP and contribute to the country’s peace and security efforts. The project also works to contribute to advancing intervention practices and the policing and security culture in Haiti by integrating more women into its police forces.

This project works to promote a constructive and effective role of civil society, through advocacy and a balanced participation of women and men, in political decision making related to the peace process, as well as in national and local peacebuilding. Responding to the need to end armed violence and build peace in the Northwest and Southwest (NWSW) regions of Cameroon, this project supports a legitimate, inclusive and sustainable peace process through an increased contribution to this process by Cameroonian civil society. The project aims to foster the creation of trust and collaboration across political, geographic, religious, ethnic and linguistic lines.

Project activities include: (1) providing capacity building to key civil society actors, with a particular focus on women and youth; (2) promoting bridge building among civil society; (3) offering accompaniment and organizational support to selected local partners; and (4) conducting collaborative practice-based research.

The project focuses on promoting synergies and platform building to prevent a fragmentation of civil society. Emphasizing a sustainable engagement, the project also applies a participatory, conflict-sensitive and gender-inclusive approach, promoting local ownership and empowerment.

This project aims to contribute to the implementation of the Ethnic Chapter of the Colombian Peace Agreement through a feminist lens. The project also works to address the increase in post- Peace Agreement violence, particularly sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against Afro-Colombian women and girls in Barbacoas, Buenaventura, the Caribe, Norte de Cauca, and Tumaco regions.
Project activities include: (1) conducting awareness raising activities on SGBV committed against Afro-Colombian women and girls; (2) increasing knowledge on services for survivors of SGBV, including domestic violence, through the publication and distribution of coronavirus (COVID-19) prevention and response materials; (3) conducting workshops to improve responses to SGBV by authorities and civil society operating in the focus regions of the project; (4) preparing and submitting to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace of an emblematic case on SGBV committed against Afro-Colombian women and girls; (5) holding community hearings on SGBV that promote healing and reconciliation; and (6) advocating for the continued implementation of the Ethnic Chapter through an Afro-Colombian feminist lens.

This project aims to reinforce community resilience against disinformation in Mali’s northern and central regions to improve conflict prevention and the security situation. Specifically, the project aims to strengthen multi-stakeholder coordination and collaboration for communicating messages and information that are verified, impartial and conflict-sensitive. These actions will improve the early-warning systems and foster dialogue to prevent violent conflicts in Bamako and in Mali’s northern and central regions (Gao, Mopti, Ségou). The project will also build capacity for youth, women and local authorities in conflict transformation, leadership, positive and conflict-sensitive communication, rumour management and advocacy for peace and stability in Mali.

The project’s activities include: (1) providing training on social communication, leadership and disinformation; (2) organizing forums for community expression and peace initiatives; (3) leading awareness campaigns without social media and the radio; (4) providing training for media professionals; (5) organizing workshops on early-warning mechanisms.