Strengthening Young Women Peacebuilders’ Capacity in Complex Crises Training By The UN (Fully-funded)

Calling young women peacebuilders: Are you working to build and sustain peace, provide humanitarian relief in your community, prevent conflicts, or fight for human rights and equality? If your answer is YES, do not miss this opportunity!

THE PROGRAMME

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have collaborated to launch the pilot initiative Strengthening Young Women Peacebuilders’ Capacity in Complex Crises, a programme that aims at aiding young women leading civil society organizations in fragile and/or conflict-affected countries.

The initiative’s goal is to provide capacity-building for young women-led organizations to make powerful their fundraising skills, as well as to create a space for peer exchange, networking, sharing of best practices, and lessons learned among young women peacebuilders.

The following will be critically considered during the 4-day workshop in November 2022 in Tbilisi, Georgia:

• Key policy areas such as peacebuilding and sustaining peace, the women, peace, and security (WPS) and the youth, peace, and security (YPS) agendas;
• Key project management skills: designing and drafting project proposals (including conflict analysis, theory of change, logical frameworks), fundraising, donor outreach, and reporting.

ELIGIBILITY

You must meet the following criteria:

•  Be a citizen of, and be living in, one of the following countries or territories: Afghanistan, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.
• Be a young woman between 18 and 30 years old. LGBTIQ+ individuals are encouraged to apply.
• Be a founding or key member of a legally registered civil society organization working on peacebuilding, human rights, women’s rights, youth rights, or related.
• Have not yet received funding from the United Nations.
• Have a working knowledge of either English, French, or Spanish.

SELECTION PROCESS

A review committee will choose 25 young women at global and sub-regional levels. Only successful candidates will be prompted and invited to be part of the workshop.

For any inquiries, please send an email to marie.doucey@unwomen.org.
Deadline: 14^th August, 2022!

Apply Here