DFID 40089358 Gender and Culture of Tolerance Programme - Scoping Study

Actual CPV code is ‘75211200 Foreign Economic-Aid Related Services’.

Promoting girls and women’s rights. This programme will tackle the root causes rather than symptoms of discrimination, disadvantage, exclusion and intolerance. This includes tackling social norms, attitudes and behaviours; the formal and informal rules of the game; and the grand narratives/ discourses that may underpin and promote discrimination/othering/ exclusion.

Together these reinforce the existing status quo and perpetuate a culture of intolerance and discrimination towards girls and women. This can lead to high levels of acceptability of exclusion and often violence. This includes gender based violence, but also violence based on ethnicity, religion and sectarianism.