UN-Women Georgia inviting NGOs, CSOs, Academic Institutions and other Nonprofit Organizations

Deadline: 13 September 2019

UN Women Georgia has announced a Call for Proposals for Non-Government Organizations (NGOs); or other non-profit organizations which will be responsible to implement activities mainly with the following objective to revitalize and promote the online women-peace.net platform.

UN Women, with generous support of the UK Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) has been implementing a project “Strengthening Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding and Gender Mainstreaming in Security Sector in Georgia”, which aims at enhancing the women’s meaningful participation in peacebuilding, including the internally displaced and conflict-affected women and girls, as well as gender mainstreaming in the policies, procedures and operations of security sector in Georgia. Towards this end, the UN Women plans to select partner organization, which will develop and promote online women-peace.net1 platform, launched by Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)2 with UN Women support in 2012 as part of the project “Women Connecting for Peace – the Voice of Change”.

This platform provides space for women’s participation in peace and confidence building and enables to maintain the lines of communication, exchange views and publish analytical/opinion papers on the root causes of the conflicts in the Caucasus region, as well as find solutions to change the dynamics of a stalled peace process and open up new possibilities to positively transform the conflicts in Georgia and further contribute to achieving durable peace in the country and beyond.

Description of required services/results

Under the overall objective of supporting the women’s meaningful participation in peacebuilding processes in Georgia, the partner organization should address the key component as follow:

Revitalize the online media platform women-peace.net and further develop it

Build the capacity of the online platform
- - Build the capacity of the server
  - Conduct the review of the existing materials published on the platform and arrange them by categories (sub-categories)
Develop the online platform
- - Rebrand the platform and advertise within the relevant media to attract the contributors
  - Use existing social media platforms to promote women-peace.net content and attract the visitors/readers
  - Publish innovative and informative analysis / materials that promotes participation of women in peacebuilding and represents their voices
  - Ensure the access and engagement of Georgian, Abkhazian and Ossetian communities
  - Continuous maintaining and development of the platform

Eligibility Criteria

Who can apply?
- NGO’s/CSOs, or other non-profit organizations with over three years’ experience in publishing the topics related to the peace and conflict, mediation/negotiations and/or participation of women in peace processes (Documents required – organizational CV, sample of performed work).
- Legal status: Applicants must have valid legal status with the Government of Georgia (A valid Certificate of Registration is required).
- Gender equality focus: Applicants must demonstrate experience of working on topics related to peace and conflict from a gender lens, gender equality and women’s right (Documents required – organizational CV, sample of performed work).
- Audit reports: Applicant must have certified audit reports for 2 previous fiscal years i.e. 2017 and 2018 (Audit reports required).
- Geographic location: Presence (an office with staff capacity) in Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Endorsement: Applicants must submit at least one Letter of Endorsement from a peace and conflict, gender equality or women’s empowerment mechanism, governmental authority on gender equality, or other multi-stakeholder institution (including UN offices other than UN Women).
- Please note: To ensure fairness, Letters of Endorsement by UN Women offices will not be accepted (Letter of Endorsement required).
Organizations’ Experience on building and maintaining online platforms
- 3 years of extensive experience of online publishing activities
- 2 years of experience in content development and opinion publishing
- Demonstrated experience of analytical work in the field of peace and conflict, peace and confidence building, women’s rights, participation of women.
Important notes
- Proponent should submit the CVs of the key project personnel for evaluation:
  - Lead content creator
  - Social media specialist
  - Journalists with a focus on gender equality and/or conflict transformation
  - IT person
- Eligible organizations currently partnering with UN Women may apply under this call for proposals, subject of the further technical capacity evaluation.