UNIFEM (part of UN Women), with the generous contribution of the Canadian International Development Agency, today launches a Call for Proposals for the Fund for Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS. The Fund will provide small, catalytic grants totaling US$700,000 in 2010 to grassroots and community-based organizations or networks in sub-Saharan Africa working to improve women's access to property and inheritance rights within the context of HIV/AIDS.
Women's property ownership and inheritance rights can play a significant role in potentially breaking the cycle of AIDS and poverty. There is growing evidence to suggest that where women's property rights are upheld, women acting as heads and/or primary caregivers of HIV/AIDS-affected households are better able to mitigate the impact of AIDS on their families and communities and can also help prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS. Realistic and workable strategies at the grassroots have demonstrated that increasing women's economic security and empowerment, increases their negotiating power in the household and is a means to reduce their physical and social vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
Interested applicants from sub-Saharan Africa are invited to apply. The Call for Proposals opens on 20 September 2010 and will close on 20 October 2010.
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WHO WE ARE
CPAR-Uganda is registered non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) directly implementing development & relief interventions in and among communities. Since 1992, CPAR-Uganda has worked directly and in collaboration with vulnerable populations and a diversity of organizations in Northern Uganda to build healthy communities. This is done within the broad framework of its three thematic areas of health, livelihoods and peace building and conflict resolution.
MISSION STATEMENT
CPAR works in partnership with vulnerable communities and diverse organizations to overcome poverty and build healthy communities in Africa
VISION
We believe that everything is connected. Without adequate forest cover, soils become depleted. Without fertile soil, food production declines and the threat of hunger increases. Without secure food supplies, good health is not possible. In other words, human health is created and sustained by the social, environmental and physical conditions that affect people in a particular community.
CPAR-Uganda Country program focuses on its three core areas of Health, Peace Building and Livelihoods Support (Food Security). Although various program actions and projects may be defined as falling within different thematic areas by different donors, all internal CPAR-Uganda documentation and communication makes use of the following categorization as presented in the table below:
Health Livelihoods Support (Food Security) Peace Building
• Emergency Health
• Children & HIV/AIDS (PMTCT)
• Reproductive Health (MCH)
• Child Health and Nutrition
• OVC’s interventions/Rehabilitation
• Water and Sanitation
• Health Infrastructure Development
• Grassroots Capacity Development
• Food Production
• Nutrition
• Agri-Business
• Income Generation Activities
• Natural Resource Management
• Peace Building
• Psychosocial Support / Mental Health
• Mine Action -
Mine Risk Education and Victim Assistance
Nutrition and WATSAN will remain cross-cutting activities to both health (Maternal Child Health, Children & HIV/AIDS (PMTCT, OVC), Nutrition, Skills development (formal Education/Vocational), Child protection, Eradicating Communicable diseases (Malaria, Diarrhoeal diseases e.t.c) and for livelihoods support programming, income Generating Activities will remain cross-cutting issues of work in peace building and livelihoods support activities as well. Mine Action in the meantime (particularly victim assistance and MRE) will continue to be integrated across all three thematic areas wherever feasible.
Geographical Coverage - Gulu, Amuru, Kitgum, Pader, Lira, Apac, Dokolo, Oyam and Amorator, Kotido, Moroto, Abim, Nakapiripirit, Kyenjojo, Kyegegwa and Mubende districts. CPAR Uganda’s strategic direction in terms of growth and expansion is to grow into the rest of Uganda depending on evidence based research and needs assessment.
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