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SUVA-WOMEN-LEADERSHIP-CLEAN-ENERGY-001: Promoting Women’s Participation and Leadership in the Pacific’s Clean Energy Transition

Closed Closed August 4, 2023 Opportunity SUVA-WOMEN-LEADERSHIP-CLEAN-ENERGY-001 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Improved quality of life of persons with disabilities in provinces heavily sprayed with agent orange in Ca Mau and Quang Ngai (OFOP0003897). Status: Closes November 19, 2026 (12 days left). It is in our archive of U.S. Mission to New Zealand notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$1.5 million
• Award floor$1.5 million
• Total funding$1.5 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits.

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

U.S.-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations subject to section 501(c) (3) of the U.S. tax code; foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO); international organizations, and Pacific regional organizations.

More grants for nonprofits.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past East Asia and Pacific Grants Program awards averaged $1.3 million; this notice allows up to $1.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (74% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The U.S. Embassy in Suva, Fiji announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for a regional program in eligible Pacific Island countries at $1.5 million or less to promote greater leadership roles and economic opportunities for Pacific women and girls as part of the region’s ongoing clean energy transition. Pacific Island Countries – among the most vulnerable in the world to the impacts of climate change – have set ambitious goals and targets for renewable energy deployment and decarbonization of their economies. Transition to renewable energy however presents specific structural and cultural challenges to ensuring that women girls – including from marginalized and underserved populations – have sufficient opportunities, resources, and freedom to benefit from and participate fully in new economic opportunities provided by the region’s emerging renewable energy sector. Increasing female participation in the Pacific energy sector will also bring valuable additional viewpoints to help foster greater innovation in the sector. Gender inequalities continue to limit economic opportunities for women and girls in the Pacific region. Structural barriers in discriminatory laws and regulations, social norms and customs, and gender-based violence have limited the ability of women and girls in the Pacific to be equal and catalytic economic actors. In particular, the Pacific’s energy sector has long been male dominated. Currently only 20 percent of the workforce of utilities in Pacific Island countries are female, with only 5 percent in technical roles. Women in the region remain absent from energy-related decision-making at all levels. Parents and relatives often discourage women and girls from becoming entrepreneurs or from pursuing male-dominated careers, such as those in the energy sector. Female participation rates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs in Pacific tertiary institutions remains low, with only 20 percent at university and 5 per cent or less at Vocational Education and Training Courses (TVET).

Category: Regional Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, OFOP0003897, which is open now.

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