The Women For Afghan Women Inc. will provide $1.2 million in culturally specific support services to Afghan evacuees in the New York and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas under a three-year Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. The grant funding will support services aligned with objectives of the Administration for Children and Families' Refugee and Entrant Assistance Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 93.576),...
The Department of State Office of the Secretary of State awarded a $1,610,705 cooperative agreement to Asian University for Women (Auw) Support Foundation, Inc. to support the economic empowerment of Afghan women through scholarships for pre-undergraduate and undergraduate education. The award is being administered under the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI) federal grant program (CFDA 19.801), which promotes the empowerment of women and girls in U.S. foreign policy through...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Grants for Outreach and Services to Underserved Populations (CFDA 16.889) program to Women For Afghan Women Inc. (WAW) in partnership with Connect NYC. The award supports efforts to develop and implement outreach strategies and provide victim services targeted at adult and youth Muslim survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in New York. Key...
This $1,776,023 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Office of Global Women's Issues (CFDA 19.801) is intended to advance the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda by enhancing the capacity, technical expertise, civil society inclusion and engagement, networks, knowledge, and sustainability of WPS centers at the local, national, and regional levels. The award supports Saferworld, an international non-profit organization, in implementing programs that strengthen civic...
This $3,450,000.00 Project Grant award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program provides funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for gender-based violence/psychosocial support (GBV/PSS) activities and accountability to affected populations in Afghanistan. The award period is from August 18, 2023 to August 17, 2024. Through this funding, UNFPA will deliver critical reproductive...
The Department of State's Office of Global Women's Issues awarded a $2.96 million cooperative agreement to the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders Inc. to support the Leadership of Local Women Including Young Women and Other Historically Marginalized Group in Preventing, Resolving, and Recovering from Conflict, Violent Extremism (VE) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is Amplified and Sustained program. This program, funded under the Office of Global Women's Issues' CFDA #19.801 program, will...
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations (CSO) awarded a $1,400,832.80 Cooperative Agreement to UN Women to support the sustainable and inclusive reintegration of women ex-combatants and other vulnerable women and girls affected by the conflict in northern Ethiopia. The federal grant award, under CSO's Conflict and Stabilization Operations program (CFDA 19.121), will fund activities to provide essential services, support women-led civil society organizations,...
This $2,397,991 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration under the Overseas Refugee Assistance Program for the Middle East and North Africa (CFDA 19.519), will support the Women's Rehabilitation Organization, a foreign-owned, woman-owned non-profit, to provide services to reduce the risk of gender-based violence and child protection violations among refugees, internally displaced persons, and vulnerable populations in Iraq. The...
The U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau awarded a $700,000 Project Grant (CFDA 17.700) to Equal Rights Advocates, Inc. (ERA) to assist marginalized and underserved women workers impacted by gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the workplace. ERA, the National Taskforce on Tradeswomen's Issues, and project partners will build awareness through disseminating worker- and survivor-centered educational materials, implement worker- and survivor-driven strategies to mitigate workplace...
The USAID HARMONIA: COMMUNITIES ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ACTIVITY cooperative agreement award of $824,000 provides funding for the Associacao Hamutuk Nasaun Saudavel to deliver gender-based violence prevention and response services in Timor-Leste from January 3, 2022 through October 31, 2023. The award is administered under the US Agency for International Development's Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas program (CFDA #98.001), which supports long-term economic growth and development...