UNDEF’s Advisory Board met virtually on 1 April 2021 and endorsed a short-list of 38 projects for its 15th Round of funding totaling almost $10 million dollars.
UNDEF funds, helps design, manages, mentors, and generates projects that contribute to strengthening democracy
UNDEF’s Advisory Board met virtually on 1 April 2021 and endorsed a short-list of 38 projects for its 15th Round of funding totaling almost $10 million dollars.
UNDEF held a webinar panel with project grantees on violence against women both in the home and in the public arena, with a long-term objective to build a future network of UNDEF civil society grantees with expertise and experience.
In Armenia, an UNDEF-funded project implemented by Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment aims to contribute to sustainable management strategies of natural water resources in the Ararat Valley.
An UNDEF Lebanon project works to address differential treatment, especially by gender, under Lebanon’s personal status laws. Watch the project’s new awareness-raising video here.
UNDEF’s current annual call for project proposals will remain open until 6 December 2020.
An UNDEF project works to strengthen the autonomy of Syrian women refugees in Lebanon, so as to increase their opportunity to fully participate in the democratic, economic and reconstruction processes -- whether they return to Syria or stay in the host country.