Sisterhood IS Global Institute

Sisterhood IS Global Institute (SIGI) is a non-profit international organization that operates exclusively as a sub-recipient on federal grants, delivering gender-based violence prevention and response services to Syrian refugees and vulnerable host communities in Jordan. SIGI holds no prime federal contracts or grants; all four recent awards are grant sub-awards flowing from the Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (three awards) and the US Agency for International Development Jordan (one award), with prime grantees International Rescue Committee and Mercy Corps.

SIGI's capability footprint centers on gender-based violence (GBV) prevention, survivor support, and community protection services. Representative sub-award work includes a $799 thousand combined-obligated portfolio across four grants awarded between July 2022 and January 2025. Under an International Rescue Committee prime grant dated January 2025, SIGI provides sustainable health protection and GBV prevention services across four key areas: male and youth engagement in violence prevention, local organizational capacity strengthening, survivor-centered case management and legal support, and policy advocacy for protection reforms. An October 2023 IRC sub-award shows SIGI delivering comprehensive services including adolescent life-skills groups (75 girls across five groups, 24 sessions each), caregiver sessions (75 participants, five groups, 12 sessions each), recreational and interpersonal skills activities (100 beneficiaries across seven groups), GBV awareness sessions (1,000 beneficiaries across 47 community groups), and male engagement sessions (75 participants, five groups, 12 sessions each). A second October 2023 IRC sub-award tasks SIGI with legal services, advocacy, and GBV response across East Amman, Mafraq, Irbid, and Ramtha through youth conferences, media campaigns, policy briefs, and human rights clubs paired with legal case management and psychosocial support. A July 2022 Mercy Corps grant sub-award for legislative framework enforcement and institutional capacity rounds out the recent set. Customer concentration is entirely in the State Department's refugee and migration portfolio; activity has been minimal (one award in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2025) with no recompete cliff in the near term.