Call for Proposals 2008: Equality and Justice Under the Rule of Law

The mission of IWP is to use grant-making and programmatic efforts to promote and protect the rights of women and girls in priority areas around the globe where the principles of good governance and respect for the rule of law are absent or destroyed because of conflict. IWP seeks to promote the advancement of women's rights and gender equality in law and practice, and the empowerment of women to ensure participation in the democratic processes.

WP invites proposals from local, national, regional or international organizations which focus on one or more of the following objectives:

1) Reducing discrimination and violence against women
IWP seeks to support initiatives that improve the status of women by:
- Strengthening legal frameworks and enforcement mechanisms that focus on women's rights
- Strengthening civil society's capacity to hold governments accountable to implement laws
- Increasing women's capacity to understand and claim rights

2) Strengthening women's access to justice
IWP seeks to support initiatives that strengthen judicial response to women and reduce the obstacles to access by ensuring:
- Legal aid, counsel and assistance is available and resourced
- Judges, lawyers and prosecutors understand and apply gender justice
- Transitional justice mechanisms are equitable and inclusive of women

3) Increasing women's role as decision-makers and leaders*
IWP seeks to support initiatives that encourage and increase women's role as decision-makers in a number of arenas including the following:
- Peace and reconciliation processes
- Electoral and legislative processes
- Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), Security Sector Reform (SSR) and reconstruction programs

TIMELINE
Proposals must be received in English by email (preferred), fax or mail on or by July 7, 2008. Incomplete proposals or proposals received July 8 or later will NOT be considered under any circumstances.