Deadline: 07 OCT 2024
The UN Women is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals, which seeks to find strong civil society organization(s)/non-profit organization(s) that support programme implementation of the country office programme in Mozambique.
The Call for Proposals seeks to find Responsible Partner(s) with innovative and high-impact approaches to ensure that women in Cabo Delgado lead and benefit from humanitarian relief and recovery efforts.
Through this Call for Proposals, UN Women seeks proposals from Responsible Partner(s) with a strong track record in implementing programmes focused on gender equality and women´s empowerment, prevention and combating violence against women and girls support to the implementation of women, peace and security agenda and gender-responsive humanitarian action.
Goal and Objective
- Overall goal: Women in Cabo Delgado lead and benefit from humanitarian-relief and recovery efforts.
- Specific Objectives include:
- Empower displaced women and girls to be active players in planning, designing, building, and maintaining adequate, accessible, safe and resilient resettlement housing in fragile and conflict-affected areas;
- Facilitate women’s and adolescent girls’ access to sustainable livelihoods and socioeconomic opportunities; and
- Increase the access of conflict-affected women and girls to effective services and protection mechanisms.
Funding Information
- The total budget available for Component is 25,300,000 MZN.
Project Period
- October 2023-December 2025
Expected Output
- Output 1.1: Increased skills development and job creation for returnee women on (re)construction and maintenance of adequate, affordable, safe and resilient housing
- Output 1.2: New adequate, accessible, safe and resilient homes built in priority locations through community participation, especially returnee women, in coordination with national and local authorities.
- Output 2.1: Women and young women in return areas have access to technical and vocational education and training as well as key employability skills.
- Output 2.2: Women and young women affected by conflict have access to microfinance and business development support (micro and small enterprises).
- Output 3.1: Women and girls affected by violence have access to comprehensive services to redress—including appropriate protection, health and psychosocial and legal services—in return areas.
Expected Outcomes
- Outcome 1: Returnee and conflict-affected women empowered to be active players in planning, designing, building and maintaining of adequate, accessible, safe and resilient resettlement housing in fragile and conflict-affected areas.
- Outcome 2: Women and young women affected by conflict have access to sustainable livelihoods and socioeconomic opportunities.
- Outcome 3: Increased access by conflict-affected women and girls to effective services and protection mechanisms in temporary shelters and return areas.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required
- UN Women would like to engage an organization with a strong focus and extensive experience in the promotion of gender equality, women´s empowerment, ending violence against women and girls, women, peace and security, and gender-responsive humanitarian action strategies/programmes/initiatives. More specially, the organization(s) should respect the following criteria:
- Legal status: Applicants must have valid legal status with the Government of Mozambique as a civil society organization (meaning a non-state, not-for-profit, voluntary Entity formed by people in the social sphere that are separate from the State and the market. CSOs include but are not limited to community-based organizations (CBOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), youth-led organizations, LGBTI organizations, and faith-based organizations).
- Gender equality focus: Applicants must demonstrate experience in implementing programmes on gender equality with a focus on ending violence against women and girls.
- Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy: Applicants must have a policy on how to deal with sexual exploitation and abuse in the workplace.
- UN Women would like to engage an organization with a strong focus and extensive experience in the promotion of gender equality, women´s empowerment, ending violence against women and girls, women, peace and security, and gender-responsive humanitarian action strategies/programmes/initiatives. More specially, the organization(s) should respect the following criteria:
Eligibility Criteria
- Women’s organizations or entities are highly encouraged to apply.
- The application should be submitted by either a single organization or more than one organization working in a consortium.
- Proposals should ideally reflect partnerships among civil society organizations, the private sector and Government institutions. Special attention will be paid to organizations with a demonstrated record of working with local women’s organizations, especially grassroots women’s organizations and specialised women’s entrepreneurship development networks. Prioritization will also be given to organizations with a record of work in behavioural change targeting men and boys at the community level as well as opinion, community, and religious leaders.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following are not eligible to apply to either of the project:
- Government agencies or institutions
- UN agencies
- Bilateral or multilateral organisations, financial institutions, development agencies
- Private sector entities
- Private individuals
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