Organisations’ Resources, Initiatives, Campaigns, Statements, Calls & Opportunities on COVID-19 

Our Members

• Nazra for Feminist Studies, EGYPT:    Declaration on WorldHealthDay 7 April about COVID-19 (English, Arabic, French)

• Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR), EGYPT:   Seminar: The Impact of COVID-19 on Violence Against Women (English, French)   
  • Report - Supporting NGOs for Women in Times of the COVID Outbreak (Arabic)

• Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM), MOROCCO:   Communiqué de Presse “Les femmes victimes de violences doublement impactées par le confinement, suite à la pandémie du Covid-19” (French)

• Mobilising for Rights Associates (MRA), MOROCCO: Coronavirus Resources for Women Victims of Violence (French, Arabic); Monitoring and Documentation Questionnaire - Tool for NGOs (Arabic, French, English); The Impact of COVID-19 on Violence against Women in Morocco - Action research report (June 2020; English, French, Arabic) 

• Mouvement Alternatif pour les Libertés Individuelles M.A.L.I., MOROCCO:     Violences masculines et Coronavirus  (French, Arabic)
  • Campaign Stop Homophobia  

• Aswat Nissa, TUNISIA:     Lettre ouverte au chef du gouvernement pour l’adoption d’une politique féministe dans la lutte contre l’épidémie du Covid-19  (French, Arabic)

• Association Najdeh, LEBANON & PALESTINE:   Social Media campaign (Arabic)

• International, Feminist Statement on COVID-19 Policymaking (signed by more than 1000 organizations; amongst them, ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality) (English)

• Kayan Feminist Organization, PALESTINE:    Kayan responds to COVID_19 (English, Arabic)

• Assiwar - The Feminist Arab Movement, PALESTINE & ISRAEL : Movement in support of Victims of Sexual Abuse hotline: 04-853-3044

• Forum Femmes Méditerranée:    Décrivez Votre #CoronaMaison (English, French, Arabic)

• Jusoor Center for Studies and Development, LIBYA:    How COVID-19 Affects Women in Libya (English)

• Tamazight Women Movement & Jusoor Center for Studies and Development, LIBYA:    Open Letter by Libyan CSOs to Recommend Gender Sensitive Policy to the Government’s COVID-19 Crisis Response Plan (English Arabic)

• AWSA-Be جمعية تضامن المرأة العربية Arab Women’s Solidarity Association, BELGIUM: Femmes et Confinement (French)

• CAWTAR center of arab women for training and research, TUNISIA:    Facebook Campaign (English, Arabic);    E-learning initiative (Arabic)

• ABAAD, LEBANON:  Nationwide awareness campaign under the hashtag #LockdownNotLockup to share the helpline +961 81 788 178  (Arabic, English)

CALLS *

• The Next Women Tunisie and British Embassy Tunis, New support programme for women entrepreneurs based in Tunisia - Deadline for submissions: September 4Support programme for women entrepreneurs based in Tunisia - Deadline for submissions: July 10 

• Peace First, Rapid Response Grants to Address COVID-19  (for youngsters between 13 and 25 years of age) - Deadline not determined 

• Meedan, Call for Proposals: COVID-19 Microgrants for Media Work in Emerging Economies (English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish) - Deadline not dermined 

• Womenpreneur Initiative, Call for Applications: 6 months accelerator program to support women entrepreneurship during COVID-19 (French, English) - Deadline for submission: 10 June 2020

• IECD semeurs d’avenir, Call for Proposals:  Supporting youth in the Western Mediterranean - Funding (French, English)   - Deadline for submission: 31 May 2020

• Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, Grants:  COVID-19 Crisis Fund for Feminist Activists  (English, French, Spanish) - Deadline not determined

• UNESCO, Call for Participation:  Rethinking Social transformations: Inequalities in the Arab region in light of Covid-19 (English, Arabic)   - Deadline for submission: 30 April 2020 - closed

• Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund, Call for Proposals:  COVID-19 Emergency Response - Funding (English, Arabic, French, Spanish)   - Deadline for submission: 28 April 2020 - closed

*  Each call targets a different group of eligible countries and actors: Please check eligibility.

Other Relevant Initiatives & Resources

• UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: 

Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response (English, French, Spanish)

COVID-19 and ending violence against women and girls (English, French, Spanish)

COVID-19: Emerging gender data and why it matters (English)

Webinar: Leveraging Inclusive Procurement amid COVID-19 (English)

• EuroMed Feminist Initiative Statement: 

EFI Statement - COVID-19: An Urgent Need of a Humanistic Gender Equality Way of Analysis (English and Arabic) 

• UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction:

 UNDRR Declaration (English)

• European Women’s Lobby:

 Women must not pay the price for COVID19 (list of resources, English and French)

• Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy:

 Feminist Resources on the Pandemic (list of resources, English)

• European Network of Migrant Women:

Global feminist perspective on the pandemic: What “normal” do we expect when the crisis is over? (English) 

• Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR):

Call for a Feminist COVID-19 Policy (English, French, Spanish and more)

Sample Letters to governmental Institutions (English and Spanish)

Feminist Statement on COVID-19 Policymaking (Final 2020) (pdf, English)

Actualisations sur page FB: FAR Feminists

Gendered Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis: Holding Governments to Account

• Mediterranean Women’s Fund:

Facebook campaing #FeministSolidarity (French)

• Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, EGYPT:

Tracking the impact of the epidemic-containment policies on women and vulnerable groups in Egypt (English and Arabic) 

• Association Tunisienne des Femmes Démocrates, TUNISIE: 

Appel Urgent aux autorités publiques pour assurer la continuité des services de santé sexuelle et de la reproduction  (French and Arabic)

•  Migrant Women Association MALTA, MALTA:

Emergency Fundraising Campaign COVID-19 Migrant Women Association (English)

• GATE NGO - International organisation working on gender identity, gender expression and bodily diversity issues:

Form to report irregularities that trans, gender diverse and intersex people face during the COVID-19 pandemic (English)

• Data2x.org:

Gender and Data Resources Related to COVID-19  (list of resources, English)

• Genre en Action:

Genre et COVID (list of articles and resources, English, French and Spanish)

Power point presentation of the Webinar "Genre et coronavirus dans le Sud francophone" (April 24, 2020; French) 

Power point presentation of the Webinar "Quelles réponses de la coopération / solidarité internationale ?" (April 30, 2020. French); video of the Webinar 

• Collectif  “Avortement, les femmes décident !”:

Petition Change.ORG - “Covid 19 : Les avortements ne peuvent attendre ! Pour une loi d’urgence !”  (French)

• Agence française de développement, in partnership with Wikigender + DevCom (OCDE)

Online discussion: Shifting social norms and achieving gender equality - What role can communicators play? (April 14-21) #CommunicatingGender (English)

• EIGE - European Institute for Gender Equality: 

Covid-19 and gender equality (English):    Frontline workers , Gender Impacts on Health , Unpaid care and housework , Economic hardship and gender , Gender-based violence , People in vulnerable situation .

• Anna Lindh Foundation 

#SharingValues Campaign (English, French)

• Institut Català de les Dones, Government of Catalonia:

Outreach documents with recommendations, services and new aids to deal with sexist violence (Catalan)

• Council of Europe

Webinar on the Istanbul Convention: Violence against women and girls before, during and after COVID-19 (English)

See also :

COVID-19 Resources: Articles, Essays, News and Press Releases 

COVID-19 Resources: Women’s Helplines in the Euro-Mediterranean Countries