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Health, education and women’s and girls’ rights and empowerment in Afghanistan – Call for concept notes

April 2, 2025

Value

Total value of your proposed project is between CAD$2,000,000 to CAD$10,000,000.

Description

The call will fund projects that support the delivery of basic needs services to Afghans, especially women and girls, in one or more of the following three programming areas:

  • Quality, accessible, gender-responsive health services for the most marginalized (including women and girls in all their diversity, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older persons, and other marginalized groups).
  • Demand-driven skills training, particularly for women and girls in all their diversity, in areas such as literacy and numeracy, digital skills, life skills, business skills, and other relevant technical and vocational skill areas.
  • Inclusive services that protect and advance the rights and empowerment of all Afghans, with a focus on gender, ethnic and religious minorities, underserviced populations including those impacted by disability, and support to women-led groups.

Eligible Applicants

Carefully review the following eligibility screening requirements that GAC will apply to submitted application packages for this call. We will not pre-assess or comment on the eligibility of specific potential applicants. To be eligible, you must meet each requirement and, where stipulated, provide supporting documentation:

  • Your organization is legally incorporated, and you can provide proof of legal status (if your original documentation is in a language other than French or English, provide a scan of the original as well as a translation).
    • If your organization is Canadian, you must provide proof that your organization is legally incorporated in Canada with a Canada Revenue Agency business number. Your organization must have an office, employees, and/or board of directors in Canada.
      • If your organization is an Indigenous organization in Canada, it must provide supporting documentation on its history, and governance, and/or ownership structure.
  • You are not a sovereign entity (a government of a country) or multilateral institution.
  • Your organization is registered in Partners@International.
  • You must provide separate financial statements for your organization’s two most recent fiscal years. Audited statements are preferred. If this is not possible, statements must be signed by a member of the board of directors or delegate, or by the owners. As financial statements usually provide comparative information from the previous year, these statements will be used to do a three-year trend analysis.
  • You must provide an Organization Attestation signed by your organization’s chief financial officer, financial director or president.
  • You must have demonstrated experience operating in conflict settings, with preference given to organizations and/or partnerships that have experience operating in the current Afghanistan context, as applicable to the project’s design.

Eligible Expenses

Projects funded under this call must contribute to the following ultimate outcome:

Improved wellbeing of Afghans, especially women and girls in all their diversity, through increased access to basic needs services.

Applicants are expected to tailor the call’s ultimate outcome to align with their own intermediate outcomes based on their project design. Outcome statements should be grounded in the reality of the proposed activities and results, making them more specific in terms of the who, what, and where of your project.

  • What will change?
  • Who will experience the change? The intermediaries (duty bearers/responsibility holders) or beneficiaries (rights holders)? (at a minimum, disaggregated by sex); and
  • Where will the change take place?

Your ultimate and intermediate level outcome statements should appear in ALL CAPS in the Solution section of the concept note template. You may include up to three intermediate outcomes in your application, even if you are focusing on a single programming area. Refer to the Results-Based Management How-To Guide to ensure that your outcome statements adhere to GAC’s definition for intermediate and ultimate outcomes.

Organizations that receive funding under this call will be expected to work with GAC to ensure relevant results and indicator frameworks are put in place for efficient monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning. Where appropriate, applicants should use the Feminist International Assistance Policy Indicators, and other globally recognized indicators for the type of service delivery on which their project is focused.

Deadline Date

Submit your application by or before 12 pm (noon) EST April 2, 2025.

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