National Women's Alliances

Overview

The Australian Government is inviting applications for funding to provide expert gender advice to Government and ensure women’s voices inform implementation of  Working for Women: A Strategy for Gender Equality (the Strategy). This grant opportunity will establish a network of up to 6 civil society organisations to provide collaborative, intersectional, evidence based gender expertise and strategic advice to Government to inform ongoing progress of the Strategy’s outcomes. Advice will focus on elevating the lived experiences of women in all their diversity and bringing together the expertise of the women’s sector and expert stakeholders. Cross alliance collaboration will be a central feature of the program, to ensure advice to Government is intersectional and prioritised. The voices of First Nations women; migrant and refugee and culturally and linguistically diverse women; women with disability; and women living in regional, rural and remote areas will be central to guide progress under the Strategy, ensuring Government takes a genuinely intersectional approach to women’s policy. Organisations may apply to represent one or more of the following themes: gender-based violence women’s economic equality and leadership  migrant and refugee and culturally and linguistically diverse women First Nations women women living in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia women with disability. Applications from consortia to represent multiple themes are encouraged.