Support to Inclusive Governance in Ukraine

This call will support projects in Ukraine that are consistent with the Inclusive Governance Action Area Policy of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. It will support projects that strengthen the capacity of local and national government and non-government actors to respond in a more inclusive, transparent and accountable manner to the needs of all citizens, including women and girls and other vulnerable or marginalized groups, while also supporting their empowerment to claim their rights.

Specifically, the call will fund proposals that are aligned with Canada’s Inclusive Governance Policy priorities of enhancing participation in public life and ensuring that public services work for everyone.

To help meet these priorities in Ukraine, Global Affairs Canada will only consider concept notes that propose to work in at least one of the following three inclusive governance areas:

1. support to civil society organizations and citizen engagement, including civic education;
2. support to local governance and local, district, and regional governments, in the context of decentralization and regional development reforms in Ukraine, with a particular focus on sectoral decentralization (such as, but not limited to, delivery of social services and domestic resource mobilization at the local level); and,
3. support to public administration reform, including local, district and regional level public administrations, inclusive policy making and local public finance management.

Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy states that: “No less than 95 percent of Canada’s bilateral international development assistance initiatives will target or integrate gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.” Priority will be given to proposals that meet the requirement of targeting (GE-3) or fully integrating (GE-2) gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment in their design. Applicants must include gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) that identifies gender equality gaps and ensures that proposed solutions directly respond to the GBA+ analysis, across activities, outputs and outcomes.

Please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator, at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca by September 15, 2021, if this funding opportunity is of interest (organizations can only be the lead on one application).