Competition

* Unless explicitly noted, all times indicated for deadlines are for the appropriate NL timezone (NST or NDT)

Global Affairs Canada and IDRC are supporting a Learning Partnership to enhance the efforts and impacts of the flagship program, Women’s Voice and Leadership, renewed in 2023. This call for proposals seeks to recruit four organizations (or consortia of organizations) for the Learning Partnership’s Regional Learning Hubs. 

The hubs will support localized learning, evidence generation and knowledge sharing among women’s rights organizations, LGBTQI+ groups and their networks. They will complement the Global Learning Hub by anchoring learning activities in regional contexts and ensuring that insights are grounded in local realities.

Each hub will co-lead a participatory process to contextualize the co-created learning agenda. This includes overseeing region-specific learning priorities, questions and approaches that reflect the lived experiences and advocacy strategies of local actors. Each hub will also be responsible for organizing region-specific convenings and virtual engagements, fostering vibrant learning ecosystems that strengthen advocacy and interventions to advance gender equality.

Eligibility

This call for proposals is meant for women’s rights and feminist organizations, or consortia of organizations, that are primarily governed, led and directed in the Global South (or at a minimum predominantly work in countries that benefit from Official Development Assistance and have the promotion of the rights of women, youth, girls and gender-diverse people as their primary mission). 

Applicants will need to demonstrate previous experience in applying feminist monitoring, evaluation and learning practices, with an interest in demonstrating the benefits of feminist or gender-transformative approaches, and be able to perform services in English, French and Spanish, at a minimum.

In addition to the external funding agency’s submission procedures, this opportunity must also be submitted for Departmental, HSS Faculty, and Research Initiatives and Services (RIS) institutional reviews and approvals via Memorial's Researcher Portal (RP). In order to facilitate the HSS Faculty’s administrative review, please ensure "Heather C. O'Brien (Grants Facilitator)" and “Matthew Milner (Grants Facilitator)” are added as "Team Members" on your RP file. 

In accordance with University-wide approval protocols, all tabs of the RP file must be completed, the completed application must be uploaded to the “Attachments” tab, all supporting documentation including support for cash and in-kind commitments and/or letters of support must also be uploaded, and “Submit” must be pressed prior to the HSS internal deadline listed below. HSS cannot guarantee completion of an administrative review for application files that are incomplete and/or are submitted after the HSS deadline. For more detailed submission instructions and information, please consult the HSS Research Support Services website.

If you plan to apply to this competition or other research funding opportunities (as either PI or CI), e-mail an HSS Grants Facilitator, Heather C. O’Brien (HSSResearchAdmin@mun.ca or 864-8603) or Matthew Milner (HSSResearchGrants@mun.ca or 864-8050), to notify the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of your intent to apply. E-mailing the intent to apply as early as possible will help to facilitate an efficient review. A Grants Facilitator can answer any questions you may have about internal or external submission procedures and may also be able to help with proposal development.