[Closed call] to support women's organisations in Central America in 2022

Calala Fondo de Mujeres supports collectives, organisations and networks integrated and led by women in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Our commitment is to contribute to the strengthening of groups in their diversity, through training processes, support for coordination and financial resources.

Who can participate?

Collectives from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua led and integrated by indigenous and afro-descendant women, sex workers, women working for the rights of sexual diversity (lesbians, bisexual and trans women), and/or women with functional diversity. To apply, organisations must complete the application form.

¿What will be funded?

A total of 8 groups by 2022, two for each country, for a total value of 48,000 Euros distributed as follows:

• 4 donations worth 2,000 euros.
• 4 donations worth 10,000 euros.

The terms and conditions of the call are as follows:

• Collectives led and integrated by indigenous and Afro-descendant women, sex workers, women working for the rights of sexual diversity (lesbians, bisexual and trans women), and/or women with functional diversity.
• Collectives from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
• Both legally registered and unregistered organisations can apply.
• Collectives working in networks.
• Collectives without access to grants from traditional funders or budgets over 25,000 EUR (29,000 USD).
• Groups with budgets under 10,000 USD will be eligible for the EUR 2,000 category. Groups with budgets between 10,001 and 29,000 USD are eligible for the EUR 10,000 category.
• Each organisation may submit only one proposal.
• The proposal will be implemented in the period January to December 2022.
• Resources are flexible for general support to the Groups (internal strengthening, specific projects and/or ongoing processes).

Priority will be given to:

• Groups in their first 5 years of organisational life.
• They bring plural or non-hegemonic perspectives to the women's and feminist movement.
• That contribute to countering attacks by fundamentalist anti-rights groups through protection strategies or the construction of new narratives..

Who decide?

It shall be decided by participatory manner by the organisations that submit an application through a vote for the ones they consider to be the highest priority.

This process is a Calala's major political bid to promote greater participation of organisations in decisions about where money for the women's and feminist movement is spent.. We trust the decisions of the organisations we support, and we are committed to a relationship based on political trust and partnership.

Calala Fondo de Mujeres will prepare a summary document of the applications to facilitate the reading and evaluation of the proposals. In this summary document, each proposal will contain information about the applicant group, the actions they hope to implement with the funds and how they contribute to strengthening the women's movement in their territory. The form indicates which information will be shared with the other participating organisations.

Keys to the selection process:

• Organisations applying to the call may participate in the election. However, will not be able to vote for themselves, but for other proposals that they consider to be key.
• It will promote the discussion and voting by several members of the group and is not an individual choice.
• The supported organisations will be granted a period of 19 days to vote.
• The organisations receiving the highest number of votes will be selected. In the event of a tie, Calala's team will decide to which organisation to award the donation based on the organisation that most closely matches the criteria set out in the rules.
• The proposals will not be anonymised, so groups will know the names of the organisations they are voting for. No personal data will be shared such as postal addresses, telephone numbers or e-mail addresses.
• At the end of the process, Calala will send a summary table of the vote count and the names of the selected organisations to all the organisations in the programme. Voting results will be anonymised., The number of votes received by the proposals will be known to all, in order to make the voting transparent, but not from which group each vote came from.

Notification

The results of the participatory selection process will be communicated via email on 1 February 2022.

How to apply for this call?

To apply for these funds, groups must

1. Download the proposal form
2. Complete it (maximum 7 pages)
3. Send it to the post convocatoria@pruebas.seechangeproject.org by 13 December 2021 at the latest

If you have any questions, you can also write to us by e-mail: convocatoria@pruebas.seechangeproject.org