Call for Applications for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)

Call for Application for CSOs 

Program: Electoral violence Monitoring, Analysis and Management (E-MAM project) in West Africa

Introduction: 

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) is currently implementing the European Union funded project titled ‘’Electoral violence Monitoring, Analysis and Management (E-MAM)’’ in twelve West Africa countries comprising Togo, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, The Gambia, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Mali and Benin. The project is designed with the objectives to strengthen regional and national capacities to enhance peaceful electoral processes, peace and stability in these countries set to hold parliamentary and presidential elections between 2023-2027. It will also coordinate civil society organization’s support for national electoral dispute management processes in these countries. WANEP believes that if local capacities are developed and harnessed for timely election violence monitoring, analyses and reporting, there will be proactive and timely response to the identified threats capable of escalating electoral violence and destabilizing political transitions. The project will impact and improve on the operational capacities of CSOs, states and inter governmental organizations for peaceful conduct of elections in the targeted countries. 

WANEP is therefore seeking to work with ten qualified CSOs in The Gambia that align to five action areas that guide the achievement of the project goal to prevent or mitigate election violence.  

Priority Action Areas: 

The CSOs must demonstrate experience in at least one of the following action areas: 

• Capacity building of civil society organizations to promote greater involvement in designing or implementing appropriate crisis awareness, prevention and preparedness measures and appropriate communication channels with security forces.
• Women in preventing and resolving election-related violence.
• Awareness and educational campaigns encouraging peaceful participation in the election processes, dissemination of messages of nonviolence, with special emphasis on the role of youth involvement in preventing electoral violence.
• Promoting the role of informed independent media (including social media) in preventing and mitigating risks of political and electoral violence due to misleading information or fake news (specialized training, promotion of codes of conduct, etc.).
• Promoting initiatives for national and/or local mediation and dialogue (high-risk areas): discussion platforms, round tables or other inclusive processes.

Available Opportunity

The successful applicants will join the National Election Response Group (NERG) and access, if need be, subgrants to implement the rapid responses recommended by the NERG. 

Organizations’ eligibility criteria to apply for the grant: 

Within the context of The Gambia, eligible CSOs must be: 

• Legally register organization under the laws of The Gambia;
• Local non-governmental or community organizations and not profit-making organizations;
• Organizations or Networks focusing on democracy, governance, peace and security.