Opportunity Information: Apply for NIGER STATE WPS 2024 002
The U.S. Embassy in Niamey (U.S. Department of State) is offering a cooperative agreement to support a program focused on getting more women directly involved as mediators in community peace processes in Niger's Tillaberi Region. The opportunity is grounded in recent local peace accords in northern Tillaberi, including agreements in Bani Bangou (between Fulani and Zarma leaders) and Ouallam (between Tuareg and Fulani leaders), which helped stop cycles of intercommunal massacres that were intensified by Islamic State of the Greater Sahara (IS-GS) violence and recruitment. Since Niger's July 2023 coup, the CNSP has continued to back additional mediation efforts in other hard-hit localities such as Gourol, where communities have faced severe violence and displacement. The grant is essentially trying to protect and strengthen the progress these community accords have created, while addressing a major gap: women have largely been kept out of formal mediation roles.
A central problem the opportunity highlights is that women in these peace processes have typically been treated as sources of information rather than decision-makers. In past negotiations, male mediators consulted women through focus groups to inform conflict analysis, but women were not positioned as mediators at the table and often only appeared in ceremonial roles. Even though previous peacebuilding work has improved many women leaders' skills in dispute resolution, older men still dominate mediation spaces, leaving underlying patriarchal power structures largely intact. This program is designed to shift that dynamic from occasional consultation to sustained leadership, with women actively shaping negotiations and follow-through in partnership with public authorities.
The stated goal is clear and time-bound: by 2026, women leaders will increase their participation as mediators in northern Tillaberi peace processes and will institutionalize their leadership in partnership with national and local authorities. Applicants are expected to bring a strong strategic approach, including practical procedures for removing barriers that keep women out of mediation roles. A key requirement is that projects should build on what already exists. Rather than running new rounds of basic mediation trainings, applicants are strongly encouraged to work with women leaders who have already been trained through earlier peacebuilding and gender inclusion efforts, and to focus resources on the steps that actually integrate these women into real, ongoing peace process structures.
The opportunity suggests several activity areas that fit this strategic focus. These include conducting a rapid gender inclusion assessment of how peace processes currently work in northern Tillaberi, developing a concrete gender inclusion strategy for local mediation efforts, holding advocacy meetings to push adoption and implementation of that strategy, supporting gender-inclusive peace monitoring, and carrying out public sensitization to increase community acceptance of women as mediators. The program is not framed as a standalone civil society project; it is meant to function as a coordinated effort that changes how local peace processes are organized and who is recognized as legitimate leadership within them.
Close collaboration with Nigerien authorities is presented as essential rather than optional. The Embassy specifically points to working with bodies such as the Ministry of Interior's Stabilization Unit and the High Authority for the Consolidation of Peace (HACP), along with other organizations already engaged in peace process support in northern Tillaberi. To keep coordination consistent, applicants are expected to budget for quarterly meetings of a project advisory group, which would help align work with government actors and with other women, peace, and security partners operating in the same space.
The primary participants and target audience are women leaders in northern Tillaberi who have already been trained and can co-design and co-implement inclusion activities, alongside the broader network that influences local mediation: community leaders, national and local authorities, and women's leadership structures. The successful implementer is expected to manage a coalition across these groups and to leverage existing relationships rather than starting from scratch. The Embassy also signals what it wants in an implementer: demonstrated experience advancing gender inclusion in local peacebuilding and prior collaboration with Nigerien authorities.
In terms of funding and logistics, this is a discretionary opportunity under CFDA 19.222, with one expected award and a maximum award ceiling of $100,000. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically implies more ongoing engagement and coordination with the funder than a standard grant. Eligible applicants include not-for-profit organizations such as civil society groups, NGOs, and think tanks. Priority is given to Nigerien not-for-profits, especially those led by women, and the notice further notes a preference for organizations based in Diffa Region. The original application closing date listed for the opportunity was June 3, 2024, and the opportunity is identified as NIGER STATE WPS 2024 002 under the U.S. Mission to Niger.Apply for NIGER STATE WPS 2024 002
- The U.S. Mission to Niger in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Women-Mediated Peace Processes in Tillaberi Region" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.222.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-05-06.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-03. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $100,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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