UN Women inviting Expressions of Interest: Gender and Peacebuilding for Syria

Deadline: 1-Dec-20

The UN Women is inviting expressions of interest for the implementation of the programme “Supporting Syrian women’s engagement in the Syrian political process: Building a Constituency for Peace”.

UN Women is looking to expand its partnerships with women’s civil society working for Syria on initiatives related to building alliances on women’s rights, facilitating long-term dialogues, undertaking trust-building activities, building support for the political process, and implementing initiatives that link local civil society to the political process.

UN Women is exploring potential partnerships with the women’s civil society working on gender and peacebuilding for Syria. This includes supporting women’s groups to build alliances on women’s rights, to facilitate long-term dialogues, to undertake trust-building activities, to build support for the political process, and to implement initiatives that link local civil society to the political process.

Objectives

The objective of the support is to work with local organizations that use peacebuilding frameworks in implementing initiatives related to:

Increasing trust and cooperation across different constituencies at the community-level on issues of gender equality; and
Connecting local women’s civil society to the ongoing political process, including the articulation of common priorities and issues related to women’s rights and gender equality.

Timeframe

UN Women is seeking partners to implement projects of up to two years between January 2021 and December 2023.

Competencies

Technical/functional competencies required:
- Demonstrated focus on women’s rights and gender equality and Syria;
- Track record in holding dialogues across diverse communities;
- Experience in implementing programming that draws on peacebuilding frameworks and use of conflict sensitive approaches;
- Capacity to deliver expected results: governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency; and
- Relevance of the mandate and the role of the organization to implement expected results and to contribute to the sustainability of said results.
Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- National organizations based within the Middle East, youth organizations, and disability person organizations (DPOs) are strongly encouraged to apply.