Deadline: 4 May 2020
UN Women Uganda with financial support from the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative and the Government of Sweden is seeking Proposals from women-led Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Local Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) with experience in strategic engagement of the mass media in Uganda to support the Uganda Media Council to strengthen the capacity of media houses (including TV and FM stations in targeted districts) through review/introduction of guidelines, training and dissemination of material to enhance publicity of gender responsive educational and developmental programmes on ending Violence Against women and girls and Harmful practices and promotion of Sexual Reproductive Health Rights.
The objective of this Call for Proposals is to develop and implement a project aimed at mobilizing the media to prioritize Gender Equality, Ending Harmful Practices and Violence Against Women and Girls and to Promote Sexual Reproductive Health Rights.
Funding Information
- Grant is size upto UGX 165,000,000.
- All applicants should demonstrate absorptive capacity and a financial management record commensurate with the grant request amount.
Duration
8 Months (May 2020,December 2020).
Eligibility Criteria
- Women’s rights organizations that are legally registered in Uganda and have specialized knowledge, expertise and track record of working on women’s human rights in the context of governance and decision making programming, including but not limited to: non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations and media networks at national or sub-national level).
- Legal status: Applicants must have valid legal status with the Government of Uganda. (A valid Certificate of Registration is required).
- Gender equality focus: Applicant must demonstrate experience implementing programmes on gender equality and women empowerment with a focus on media, media engagement and engagement with media owners and managers. (Documents required).
- Women leadership: Applicants must have at least 50% women on its Board and its staff, with substantive representation of women in leadership positions. (Documents required).
- Audit reports: Applicants must have certified audit reports for 2-3 previous fiscal years i.e. 2016, 2017, 2018 (and 2019 if available) (Audit reports required).
- Endorsement: Applicants must submit at least one Letter of Endorsement from a gender equality or women’s empowerment mechanism, governmental authority on gender equality, or other multi stakeholder institution (including UN offices other than UN Women).
- Note: To ensure fairness, Letters of Endorsement by UN Women offices will not be accepted. (Letters of Endorsement Required).
- Experience on media advocacy and engagement.
- Extensive programme experience in working on women and Gender Equality issues, including on media programming and work with media at national level.
- Capacity building of media entities regarding reporting on Gender Equality, Violence Against Women and Girls, Harmful Practices and Sexual Reproductive Health Rights
- Long track record and presence working in the media in Uganda
- Experience working with media personnel, Media owners and media managers in Uganda. Alternatively, applicants should demonstrate that they have existing partnerships or will establish partnerships with media organizations as part of this engagement.
- Important notes:
- The application should be submitted by either a single organization or more than one organization working in a consortium on the proposed thematic area.
- Proposals should ideally reflect partnerships among civil society and Government. Special attention will be paid to organizations with a demonstrated record of working with local women’s organizations.
- Transfer of funds by the Applicant Organization to UN Agencies, private sector entities, International NGOs and International Organizations will not be allowed.
- UN Women will sign contracts with and disburse funds to the applicant organization only.
- Eligible organizations currently partnering with UN Women may apply under this call for proposals.
Non-eligible applicant organizations
The following are NOT eligible to apply to this call for proposal:
- Government agencies or institutions.
- UN agencies.
- Bilateral or multilateral organizations, 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.
Evaluation Criteria
Proposals passing the eligibility criteria will be scored against the following:
- Relevance of the proposal 30 points
- Vision for structural change in a relevant thematic area
- Quality of the context analysis and gender assessment
- Implementation strategies 40 points
- Linking local implementation to National, Regional and international Commitments
- Rights based approach
- Strategic partnerships
- Engaging Mass media outlets
- Added value elements 30 points
- Linkage with SDGs and NDP
- Innovation
- Evidence based intervention
- Sustainability
- Engaging key policy makers
Successful proposal(s) will be expected to be further developed as a Programme Document meeting UN Women standards and formatting requirements, with support from UN Women staff as required, to include high‐quality standards of programme strategy, monitoring and evaluation plans, results and resource framework, budget, etc.
For more information, visit http://ug.one.un.org/tender/un-women-call-proposals
