Gender Grants for Institutions and Individuals based in Nepal

These grants serve as a crucial resource for actors to access the most relevant channels to apply the transformative power of arts/culture to address current challenges facing women/girls, especially those at the margins of the gender movement, gender minorities and other vulnerable communities. The grants are aimed at providing the support required for the delivery of creative actions that raise awareness and extend the voice/agency of those at the margins of the gender movement in Nepal.

They are offering a number of awards which combine financial and nonfinancial resources. Selected grantees will have mentoring throughout the grant period and also have access to several opportunities to showcase their vision and outputs.

Funding Information

• Applicants can apply for grants ranging from NPR 50,000 to NPR 450,000.
• Applicants are encouraged to carefully assess their project needs and ensure that their budget requests align with market rates.

What support does the Grant award Include?

• The British Council will provide a monetary award for your accepted proposal.
• Other support provided include:
  • Financial grant to support your creative action.
  • Mentorship: This will be designed to help you improve on the planning and implementation of your activity. The assigned mentor will be a professional of at least 12 years of experience of employing arts and culture for gender action. Mentors will also help grantees build their capacity in implementing projects and building their network
  • Presentation/Showcase platform: They will be able to provide you with platforms to help you promote, communicate and showcase your work to a larger audience
    • The British Council social media will help you communicate your activity(s)
    • Women of the World Festival, to be held in 2024 could be a platform to present on and showcase your work as part of the grant project.
  • Documentation support: They will be helping you to compile documentation of your project activities to tell the story of your work and the impact it has had. They will help you build capacity to tell your project story through video and will help you edit and put together a story.
  • Marketing and communication: Promotional and marketing material of your project will be promoted through the British Council social media channel, newsletter and through targeted mass emails.
  • Evaluation support: They will be sharing with you an impact framework that can be adapted to your project and will also help get the required data and information to evaluate your work.

What can the Financial Award Cover?

• They hope to provide support to inspiring and innovative actions that is able to foster inclusive civic participation. They are looking forward to receiving applications that
  • have a gender focus (this does not exclude working with men/boys)
  • put arts and culture at the heart of their programming and activities. This could include creative interventions, dialogues and conversations, production and showcase of content/performance, capacity building exercises, campaigns to raise awareness, and the development of platforms that can provide agency to gender minority individuals and groups. The projects from Women of the World Nepal 2022 in Lumbini are great examples of this.
  • Explore and make use of artforms including craft, design, fashion, architecture, literature, music, dance, theatre, visual arts, digital arts.
• The proposal should deliver outcomes against one or more of the following impact areas:
  • Building allies: Building allyship between women, girls, men, boys and non-binary people to amplifying the collective voice in gender action
  • Raising awareness: Raise awareness of intersectional and under-represented gender issues to a specific target community including decision makers who can employ the new knowledge to enhance gender actions.
  • Voice and platform: Creating opportunities for people identifying as gender minority to express their ideas and opinions and showcase their skills and talents

Eligibility Criteria

• The British Council expects applications to come from those individuals and/or institutions who are committed to gender equality actions. They welcome and encourage applications from:
  • Outside of Kathmandu or other bigger cities in Nepal. This is to ensure that they can support projects that are able to bring out stories that have been side-lined due to geographical priorities.
  • Women, men, non-binary: All individuals or groups who find the need for an equal world are encouraged to apply.

For more information, visit British Council.