You are working on supporting gender equality in your community or culture. You are writing a proposal that will focus on gender equality because it is an important development and human rights issue. Developmental proposal is needed (for example, cultural and diversity programs, diversity mentoring, and outreach programs) that will focus on building greater gender equality. Your proposal should help to increase awareness of inequalities, offer constructive solutions, and enable all genders to have a voice in the initiative.

The proposal should include or do the following:

• Section 1: Initiative Overview
• States the community or culture you hope to influence
• States the mission, vision, and program objectives
• Section 2: Visibility, Awareness, and Participation
• Develops appropriate awareness-raising tools to stimulate broad interest
• Develops a communication strategy that leverages national and local-level education and culturally sensitive activities
• Section 3: Funding Strategy that Promotes Cultural Diversity
• Describes your funding strategies
• Explains how funding strategies promote diversity of cultural expressions
• Discusses measurable outcomes of the funding strategies