The Renewed WVL-SA Fund provides two Grant opportunities to strengthen women’s rights organisations (WROs) in South Africa. These are Multi-year Grants and Opportunity grants (previously named Rapid Response Grants.)
Eligible WROs will be:
- Based on feminist principles and must explicitly include gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in their mandate and programming.
- Demonstrate a track record of collaborating with other WROs to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
- Have an Executive Director/Head and 80% of the people in all decision-making levels (management and governing board, if one exists) who are women. At least 60% of the staff must be women.
- Opportunity grants may include feminist, women-led groups that are not registered, do not have three years of experience and/or are less experienced in terms of financial management and technical capacity. For these smaller grants WROs may not necessarily be required to show due financial diligence or a donor track record up front.
The following is a list of entities that are ineligible for WVL Grants;
- Individuals representing personal interest that does not benefit the greater community.
- Political parties.
- Government institutions.
- Faith-based organisations whose objectives are discriminatory and/or serve religious purposes, and/or whose main objective of the grant is of a religious nature.
Include, but are not limited to WROs working to promote women’s and girl empowerment in following areas LBTQI+, disability, constitutional and Legal Rights, Governance, Education, Economic Justice, GBV, SRHR, Health, HIV and AIDS, Media and Climate Change.
- Creation of endowments.
- Any previous obligations by Gender Links to the beneficiary.
- Bad debts; fines; penalties imposed on the partner.
- Any expenses related to ceremonies, parties, and celebrations.
- Purchase of any goods restricted and prohibited under Gender Links regulations such as alcoholic beverages.
- Purchase of surveillance equipment, military equipment or arms whether new or surplus, police or law enforcement equipment, abortion equipment and services, weather modification equipment, luxury goods and gambling equipment.
- Purchase of goods from prohibited sources.
- Expenses related to activities which are illegal under South African law.
- Promotion of political parties, religion, or commercial interests.
- Payments to government employees.