The World University Service of Canada (WUSC) is a leading Canadian non-profit organization in international development,
committed to building a more equitable and sustainable world. In April 2020, WUSC was awarded an $8.5 million grant by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) to deliver the Innovation in Non-traditional Vocational Education and Skills Training (INVEST) project for women in Ghana.
The INVEST project is a 5-year collaborative initiative (2020-2025) that will build sustainable pathways to enhanced economic empowerment,
well-being and inclusive growth for 5,000 urban poor young women in Accra, in the Greater Accra Region, Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region, and Sekondi-Takoradi, in the Western Region, Ghana ABANTU for Development is a gender and women’s rights organisation that exists to strengthen the capacities of women to participate in decision making spaces at all levels, to influence policies from a gender perspective and to address inequalities and injustices in social relations. INVEST has partnered with ABANTU for Development as the lead organization for the delivery of the gender aspects of the project. ABANTU will lead in capacity building, advisory and coordination, monitoring and supervision to recipient organizations of the Advocacy Innovation Challenge Grant (AICG) on all three locations of the
INVEST project namely: Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi.
In view of this, ABANTU for Development in partnership with WUSC, wish to announce the second annual call for Concept papers for the
‘Advocacy Innovation Challenge Grant’. The Advocacy Challenge Grant is an annual grant designed to incentivize advocacy campaigns to change
public perceptions and challenge social norms that constrain women’s access to employment opportunities in non-traditional trades.
The grant will strengthen the capacity of partner organizations to develop, test and scale innovative gender-responsive and inclusive advocacy
initiatives to address negative social and gender norms that hinder and limit women’s equitable access to active participation in non-traditional
trades in the three target locations namely: Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi.
Read more on eligibility requirements among others in the pdf below.
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