VIVA Girls Grants By MADRE 2020

Eligibility Criteria :

Eligibility criteria for the program is following :

• Be a community-based group or individual that:
• Works with girls and young women (up to 30 years old) who identify themselves as Afro-descendants, disabled, indigenous and / or LGBTIQ, and those from communities that face climate crises, wars, conflicts, disasters and their consequences. *
• It is based in the geographic regions of VIVA Girls: Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Pacific.
• It is seeking financial support (a grant) for a community project that works to meet immediate needs and also creates solutions to community challenges.
• It has an annual operating budget ** below US $ 100,000.
• Plan to implement, or is currently implementing a job that aims to:
• Build a just peace: preventing, surviving and recovering from war, to create a lasting peace.
• Advanced climate justice: defend against the climate crisis and advocate for just economic and environmental policies.
• End gender violence: face abuse and create protections for women, girls and LGBTIQ people.
  * MADRErecognizes communities at war, disasters and their consequences as communities facing an acute climate crisis, crisis of extreme gender violence, war and authoritarian or pre-authoritarian regimes.

** An annual operating budget is the total amount of money you spend to execute your initiative/project / organization.