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What Works Innovation Grant

Location:
"Global South" [sic] countries in FCDO priority regions: Middle East, North Africa, Asia, and Sub-Sahara Africa
Grant Size:
Up to GBP£500,000 for projects lasting up to three years
Eligibility:
Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) based in eligible countries. INGOs are eligible as part of a consortia led by WROs.
Status:
Closed
Closing Date:
Fri 6 Dec, 2024
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Reducing violence against women and girls (VAWG) through innovative approaches, such as addressing climate-related violence and partnerships with digital rights organisations.

N.B. The Global South/Global North terms are inaccurate and misleading. First, they are descriptively inaccurate, even when they refer to general notions such as (economic) development. Second, they are homogenizing, obscuring important differences between countries supposedly part of the Global South and North groups. In this respect, these terms are no better than alternatives that they are trying to replace, such as ‘the West‘ or the ‘Third World‘. Third, the Global South/Global North terms imply a geographic determinism that is wrong and demotivational. Poor countries are not doomed to be poor, because they happen to be in the South, and their geographic position is not a verdict on their developmental prospects. The correct terms are low or medium-income countries.