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

Status: Upcoming
Planned launch: January 2025
Action areas: Human dignity, Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls
Geographical focus: Afghanistan
Overall budget: Up to CAD $35,000,000
Estimated size of the project(s): Minimum of $2,000,000 and up to CAD $10,000,000 over four years
Number of projects funded: 4 to 8 projects or none

Objectives

Global Affairs Canada will launch a call to support the delivery of basic needs services to Afghans especially women and girls in one or more of the following three programming areas:

1. Quality gender-responsive health services for the most marginalized
2. Needs-based skills training, particularly for women and girls, in subjects such as:
   • essential literacy and numeracy
   • computer literacy
   • life skills
   • business skills
   • other relevant technical and vocational skill areas
3. Services that protect and advance the rights and empowerment of women and girls, with a focus on ethnic and religious minorities, including support to women-led groups

This is a two-step process:

1. We will invite eligible organizations to submit concept notes. They should describe how their projects will address one or more of these development challenges
2. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application package

Eligibility criteria

Preference will be given to:

• non-governmental organizations with a demonstrated ability to operate in the current Afghan context
• Canadian organizations or partnerships involving Canadian organizations
• proposals which leverage other sources of funding

We will not prioritize one programming area over others. We will evaluate each submission based on the responsiveness and quality of the concept, regardless of whether one or more programming areas are selected.

Related links

• How to apply for funding through a call
• Results-based management for international assistance: A how-to guide