📋 Tender Overview
Country / region
• Mexico (30.00%)
• Honduras (30.00%)
• Guatemala (30.00%)
• North and Central America, regional (10.00%)
Maximum contribution $5,000,000
Project activities include: (1) providing evidence for advocacy on sexual and gender-based violence issues and demands at various levels. These can range from women human rights defenders to stakeholders at national, regional and global level; (2) training women human rights defenders and activists on alliance building, collective and advocacy strategies; (3) organizing exchanges between Mesoamerican and Canadian women human rights defenders and activists; (4) developing toolkits and resources on innovative media strategies and communication tools; (5) providing learning materials on extractivism and economic justice in Central America; (6) organizing cross-regional encounters of women human rights defenders and researchers on extractive industries and their impact on women, communities, territories and the environment; and (7) providing and coordinating the Alquimia Feminist Strategic Leadership courses, a training program for Indigenous and rural women leaders in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala. The project is being implemented by Just Associates and the Nobel Women’s Initiative.
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) strengthened prevention and responses to sexual and gender-based violence. This is done through regional bodies, development donors, human rights and protection organizations and women human rights defenders and their organizations in Central America and Mexico; and (2) improved fair access and control over resources, including financial and natural resources by grassroots rural and Indigenous women and their communities in Central America and Mexico.
