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</span>- <b><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";color:#558ed5">The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women is accepting applications for its 21st grant cycle (2017)</span></b><br>
<span style="background:yellow">Application deadline: <b>5 December 2017</b></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) awards grants to initiatives that demonstrate that violence against women and girls can be systematically addressed, reduced and, with persistence,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">Civil society organizations are invited to submit grant proposals for a minimum of US$50,000 up to a maximum of US$1 million for a period of three years.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">Proposals are invited under the following three programmatic areas:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">(1) Improving access for women and girls to essential, safe and adequate multi-sectoral services to end violence against women and girls;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">(2) Increasing effectiveness of legislation, policies, national action plans and accountability systems to prevent and end violence against women and girls; and<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">(3) Improving prevention of violence against women and girls through changes in knowledge, attitudes and practices.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">This year, the UN Trust Fund is also seeking applications that specifically focus on:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">(a) addressing <b>violence against women and girls in the context of the current forced displacement and refugee crisis</b>; or<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">(b) addressing <b>violence against women and girls with disabilities</b>.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9">Applications from women’s rights, women-led, and small women’s organizations are prioritized, in recognition of them being the driving force of the ending violence against women agenda, as well as being at the
 forefront of reaching women and girls survivors at the grassroots level. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";color:#558ed5">Read the full text: Call for Proposals / </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";color:#c00000">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";color:#558ed5" lang="ES">The online application system / </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";color:#558ed5" lang="ES">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#d9d9d9"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";color:#558ed5" lang="ES">Learn more about the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#262626">Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office of the World Health Organization for the Americas -
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