Deadline Date: June 30, 2026
UN Women presents a funding opportunity under the EU4 Gender Equality Regional Programme inviting civil society organizations to develop and implement innovative pilot interventions aimed at addressing violence against women and girls, including technology-facilitated violence in the Western Balkans.
The focus areas, objectives, priorities, and themes of this opportunity include piloting innovative interventions to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG), addressing technology-facilitated violence (TF VAWG), designing, testing, and implementing survivor-centred and evidence-based approaches, strengthening the knowledge, capacities, and access of women and girls to tools and support mechanisms, enabling recognition, prevention, documentation, reporting, and response to online violence and gender-based discrimination, and generating practical knowledge, tools, and lessons learned on effective and scalable approaches.
Under this initiative, UN Women is inviting civil society organizations, including women-led organizations, youth organizations, and technology-oriented groups, to submit proposals to act as Responsible Parties. The selected organization will be responsible for designing, testing, and implementing pilot interventions that respond to the evolving forms of violence experienced by women and girls, particularly in digital spaces.
The programme is part of the EU-funded EU4 Gender Equality – Women’s Economic Empowerment and Ending Violence Against Women in the Western Balkans initiative. It places strong emphasis on innovative and practical solutions that can be tested in real-world settings while ensuring that survivors remain at the centre of all interventions.
The selected proposal will contribute to strengthening regional capacity to address technology-facilitated violence while also building evidence-based practices that can inform future programming and policy development. Civil society organizations are expected to bring forward creative and contextually relevant solutions that can effectively respond to both prevention and response needs.
The budget for this opportunity is set between USD 145,000 and USD 150,000, and proposals outside this range will not be considered.
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