Improving menstrual health and hygiene

Eligibility criteria:

The “Menstrual Health and Hygiene” call for proposals aims to finance an intermediated fund supported by associations:

• National or international, structured in consortium, and working in partnership with local entities;
• Meeting the definition specified in the FSOF 2020-2022 Strategic and Accountability Framework, namely: “feminist civil society organizations in all their diversity, whether formally constituted or not, whose objective is to act in favor of gender equality and to transform sustainable social relations based on gender, and especially those whose main mission is to defend and promote the effective rights and emancipation of women and girls”;
• With proven expertise in menstrual health and hygiene;
• Having experience in facilitating transformational mechanisms on gender, using a rights-based approach, according to an inclusive approach taking into account the factors of multidimensional inequalities;
• Having prior experience of partnering with feminist civil society organizations and possibly feminist SSE, networking and financing their activities;
• Having the capacity to deploy communication channels with local and community CSOs and SSEs in various contexts;
• Having expertise in building community capacity and civil society organizations, and identifying good practices;
• Having previous experience in research & action / capitalization (intellectual production, south-south knowledge sharing) / advocacy, influence and political action;
• Having detailed knowledge of the ecosystems in the proposed intervention countries;
• Demonstrating administrative and financial management capabilities across multiple and diverse geographic areas;
• Having operational capacities / managing multi-stakeholder projects, including in remote intervention areas.

This call for proposals is open to non-profit organizations, national and international civil society organizations (CSOs) from all countries of the world, including partner countries of France’s development policy and international solidarity.

The leader of the consortium must have an annual budget of more than €3.5 million (for a 4-year project). This criterion is not applicable to consortium members.

Geographical areas: 

The project must be carried out in the partner countries of France’s development and international solidarity policy, in which AFD has a mandate to intervene – but outside the so-called “major emerging” countries and with the exception of the countries of the Sahel region – with the following breakdown:

• At least 50% of funding to CSOs from the African continent (North Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa and the Gulf of Guinea).
• Up to 50% to CSOs located in countries in the Latin America, Orients and 3 Oceans zones.

The consortium will focus its efforts in three or four regions outside the Sahel region.

Sectors of intervention: 

Menstrual health and hygiene

Available budget:

EUR 9.8 million grant
To be eligible, the proposal must be based on the total budget envelope of EUR 9.8 million.

Project duration:

Between 3 and 4 years (the proposal will justify the proposed period)
 

• Launch of the call for projects: May, 5th 2023
• Closing date for requests for clarification: May, 26th 2023 at 8 am CET
• Closing of the call: July, 5th 2023 at 8 am CET

1. Download the call for proposals.
   Warning: only the French version of the call for proposals (available here) is legally binding, the documents disseminated before or translated in English are not legally binding. 
2. As soon as the consortium is formed, the leader has to fill the online application form, making sure to provide all the required information.

Answers to questions sent via the contact form will be published within 5 working days after the deadline for requests for clarification (26 May 2023 at 8 am CET).

More information : Download the minutes of the preparatory meeting

For any questions, our team is at your disposal.