UN Women Call for Proposals: Ending Violence against Women – Implementing Norms, Changing Minds

Deadline: 6 September 2017

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is inviting proposals from women civil society organizations (CSOs)/ women’s CSO networks and platforms to collect data on gender stereotypes and public perceptions of gender roles and attitudes towards violence against women to contribute to the implementation of the Programme “Ending Discrimination and Violence against Women: Implementing Norms, Changing Minds”.

Objectives

To provide the UN Women Programme with detailed baseline data on key indicators to assess understanding and attitudinal change attributable to and throughout the action (February 2017-January 2020)
To quantify and contextualize the following indicators that the Programme will report against:
- Percentage of people among targeted communities in the countries involved in the action, who think it is never justifiable for a man to beat his wife, disaggregated by gender and age
- Proportion of people who have been exposed to messages challenging harmful gender stereotypes among targeted communities (disaggregation by sex)
- Perception of women and men’s roles among women, girls, boys, and men in targeted communities.
To inform the programme advocacy and sensitization interventions on increasing understanding of gender equality as well as the prevention and protection of survivors of violence against women, and attitudinal change based on the priority issues identified in the survey
To provide insight into selected communities’ culture and social perceptions, and derive strategies to influence persistent behavioural and cultural patterns which serve as obstacles to the development of societies and the achievement of gender equality.

Budget Information

Budgets of the proposals (submitted in local currency) must amount to a minimum of EU 14.000 and cannot exceed the maximum amount set for this call, EUR 17.000.

Eligibility Criteria

The Call for Implementing Partners is open to registered Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working in BiH. Applications are encouraged particularly from women’s and human rights organizations.
Priority will be given to:
- Women’s CSOs/ Women’s CSOs network and platforms that have specialized knowledge, expertise and track record of working in women’s human rights and ending VAWG;
- CSOs with track record in social science research, studies of knowledge, attitudes and practices on gender based violence and discrimination, and data collection and analysis
The following are NOT eligible to apply:
- Government agencies or institutions
- UN agencies
- Bilateral or multilateral organizations, financial institutions, development agencies
- Private sector entities
- Private individuals
- CSOs not focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment
- CSOs with lack of gender balance in their staff, board membership and leadership positions.