Deadline: 18-Sep-20
UN Women has announced a call for proposals for the Delivery of Capacity Building Training on Social Cohesion for CSOs.
This activity will empower target groups of women on entrepreneurial skills to support sustainable income generation, to relieve dependency and indebtedness, and enable resilience against re-victimisation by enabling them to establish sustainable, long term self-employment. It will further encourage women to play a key role on social cohesion and peace building as evidence across the region establishes that women’s individual and collective roles in promoting peace building extend beyond their family roles to civil society and religious settings where they can shape the decisions of community members to refrain from violent activities. In particular, it aims to address the specific limitations faced by vulnerable groups of women, including FHHs in accessing the necessary knowledge and information regarding markets and value addition of products, as well as access to financial resources.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be [400,000USD – 450,000USD]
Required Services
- Develop the inception report with a refined and detailed research scope, methodology, sampling and data analysis framework inclusive of tools, a work plan and time schedule.
- Develop a training curriculum on increasing the role of women, grassroot organizations, religious and community leaders in gender responsive social cohesion and peace building approaches for Ampara, Vavuniya and Monaragala districts for 180 beneficiaries.
- Conduct two-day dialogues and training for 180 women, members of grassroot organizations, religious and community leaders based on the training curriculum developed.
- Develop a customized action plan, intervention strategy and a training curriculum.
- Deliver a validation workshop (to present the findings of the needs assessment and action plan (inclusive of the intervention strategy and a training curriculum) to UN Women and key project and district stakeholders.
- Conduct business skill-development trainings for identified beneficiaries and government officials; support beneficiaries with the development of business plans; initiate the selection of best business plans facilitate the evaluation of business plans for the application of grants; conduct a Diversity Market Fair for each district and support experience-sharing sessions by selected beneficiaries.
Competencies
Required qualification of organisation:
- Legally constituted organization with a valid registration.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in the field of livelihood development preferably with experience in women’s economic empowerment, value chain development approaches, women’s economic empowerment, peace building and social cohesion
- Working experience with United Nations and international organization is an advantage
Team composition and required qualification:
The team composition is expected to include at least an overall team leader, research focal points and trainers based in Sri Lanka. The overall team Leader should have:
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in International Development Studies, Social Sciences, Politics, Law, Human Rights, Gender, Women Studies, Economics, Monitoring and Evaluation or related field.
- Minimum of 10 years relevant experience conducting research, developing training modules and conducting training on gender equality, women’s economic empowerment and social cohesion, women, peace and security.
- Expertise and knowledge in livelihood development preferably with experience in women’s economic empowerment and value chain development approaches.
- Significant experience in gender analysis, women’s empowerment familiarity and experience in designing livelihood development programmes.
- Extensive experience of working on projects related to issues of peace building and social cohesion
- Fluent in English and local languages (Sinhalese and Tamil).
The research focal points should have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in international development studies, Social Sciences, Politics, Law, Human Rights, Gender, Women Studies, Economics, livelihood development studies or related field.
- Minimum of 3 years relevant experience conducting research including substantive studies of sensitive issues such as violence against women, gender-based violence, gender equality and social cohesion, women, peace and security.
- Proven track record of work in a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment.
- Staff with fluency in local languages (Sinhalese and Tamil).
Team members, trainers and other members will be assessed on the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Marketing, Business Management, and/or related areas.
- Previous experience in conducting trainings on business skills development.
- Expertise in developing and delivery of similar training modules.
- Experience in developing and conducting adult training programmes
- Background knowledge on community economic empowerment, preferably with expertise in training community-scale projects including SMEs.
- Fluency in local languages (Sinhala and Tamil).
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/how-we-work/programme-implementation/2020/09/call-for-proposals-sri-lanka-delivery-of-capacity-building-training-on-social-cohesion-for-csos
