Global Affairs Canada Call for Proposals announced: Health and Rights for Women, Adolescent Girls and Children

Explore this latest funding opportunity from Global Affairs Canada.

26 July 2019

Submission deadline: October 10, 2019, 12 p.m. (noon), Eastern Time

Global Affairs Canada has launched a call for proposals that adopts a feminist and sustainable approach to improve the health, human rights and well-being of diverse groups of women, adolescent girls and children. This call for proposals is part of Canada's historic investment to promote the health and rights of women and girls around the world, which was announced on June 4, 2019.

This call for proposals will:

  • support projects that improve the quality of, access to, and demand for integrated health services and information for women, adolescents and children at the community, health facility and health system levels
  • contribute to the achievement of this ultimate outcome: increased enjoyment of health-related human rights by the most marginalized and vulnerable rights-holders, particularly women, adolescent girls and children, in official development assistance-eligible countries
  • contribute to at least two of the following intermediate outcomes:
    • increased equitable use of health services by diverse groups of women, adolescent girls and children's rights-holders
    • improved provision of gender-responsive, inclusive and accountable health services by health care providers for diverse groups of women, adolescent girls and children
    • improved effectiveness of key stakeholders, particularly women and girls' rights organizations, to advocate for evidence-based, accountable and equitable health care policies, legal frameworks and services
  • take a multi-sectoral approach grounded in the social and environmental determinants of health, rights and well-being to improve the quality and accessibility of health services for the most marginalized

At least 50% of the funding will be allocated to projects that address sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), particularly for women and adolescent girls, on identified critical gap areas:

  • reproductive health services
  • comprehensive sexuality education
  • family planning and contraceptives
  • safe and legal abortion and post-abortion care
  • sexual and gender-based violence (including child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation and cutting)
  • advocacy activities for SRHR

Eligibility: A Canadian organization, legally incorporated in Canada and only one application can be submitted from the University of Alberta.

Geographic scope: Your proposed project would take place in one or more official development assistance-eligible countries. Approximately 75% of the funding from this call will be allocated to projects that include activities taking place in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Estimated size of projects: Funding of at least $5 million, no more than $50 million and the proposed project will last at least five years but no more than seven years. 5% of the project must be in-kind. Global Affairs Canada may fund any number of proposals or none, up to the maximum funding available. The total amount of funding is approximately $325 million over five years.

Beneficiaries: A minimum of 60% of direct beneficiaries of the proposed project will be women and adolescent girls, taking into account the needs and rights of those most marginalized and most vulnerable. Your project will also work directly with men, boys and community leaders, recognizing their direct role in advancing gender equality.

Not-for-profit project: Your proposed project would not generate a profit for you or any other implementing organization.

Required project experience: Your organization must provide two recently completed past projects of at least three years of experience of implementing a development project working in women's, adolescent girls' and children's health and rights in developing countries.

Please note that as UAlberta can only submit one proposal, UAlberta International is coordinating submission of proposals for this call. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Krista by August 7, 2019 as a round table discussion will be held in August 2019:

Krista Aune
Business Development Manager, University of Alberta International
Krista.Aune@ualberta.ca
780-492-6377