Making a good thing better: Gender, Agriculture and the Information Society Small Grants
Cape Town, South Africa, Apr 23
The GenARDIS Small Grants Fund to address Gender Issues in Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP Countries) received an overwhelming response in its recent call for applications.
The third phase of GenARDIS grants follows two rounds of the implementation of successful projects and an in depth external evaluation. Round 3 grants will involve a deeper focus on capacity-building, knowledge-sharing and policy outputs. It aims to sustain and deepen the integration of gender perspectives into rural development and ICT4D initiatives, taking into account developments such as web 2.0 in agriculture and rural development and Free and Open Source Software solutions (FOSS).
The Fund will offer 15 grants of 7,000 Euros. Applications are currently being processed. More information is available on the GenARDIS website at http://www.apcwomen.org/genardis.
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos) and the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) are inviting applications for the third round of the GenARDIS small grants programme.
Source: APC
