Strengthening the Safety, Resilience and Collective Action of Women Human Rights Defenders and Women Journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Strengthening the Safety, Resilience and Collective Action of Women Human Rights Defenders and Women Journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina funds protection and learning for women to counter gendered hate speech.
Funder: UN Women
Due Dates: October 28, 2026, 12:00 (Clarification requests) | October 30, 2026, 17:00 (UN Women clarifications) | November 9, 2026, 23:59 BiH local time (Proposals)
Funding Amounts: BAM 200,000–220,000 for 24 months, January 1, 2027–December 31, 2028
Summary: Supports an integrated programme addressing gendered hate speech and strengthening women human rights defenders’ and women journalists’ safety, resilience and collective action across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Key Information: One CSO will coordinate the full programme, retaining substantive leadership; grant-making and subgrants are excluded.
Description
UN Women’s Bosnia and Herzegovina office seeks one civil society organization (CSO) to implement an integrated programme supporting women human rights defenders (WHRDs) and women journalists across the country. The intervention combines safety, legal, psychosocial and digital-security support with structured learning, mentoring, peer networks and collective advocacy. It aims to help women respond to gendered hate speech and related threats while continuing their public-interest work safely and sustainably.
The programme requires a common protection and referral framework, two differentiated learning and support tracks, and safe collective action informed by anonymized, aggregated evidence. It forms part of “Partnerships for Equality—No to Hate Speech and Divisive Narratives in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” supported by the UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund and jointly implemented by UNESCO, UNDP and UN Women with the Ministry of Communications and Transport.
