Empowering Women through Safe Gender Responsive Food Markets during COVID19 (Zimbabwe)

Deadline: 14-Apr-21

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is inviting applications for its “Empowering women through safe gender responsive food markets during COVID19” programme to support the empowerment of vulnerable women marketers for recovery and resilience from socio economic shocks, through effective participation in safe, inclusive and violence free markets as last mile food distributors.

Gender responsive safe markets shall be constructed complying with occupational health and safety standards in response to COVID 19, women entrepreneurship developed and institutions for gender responsive governance of food supply systems strengthened.

Funding Information

The budget range for this proposal should be USD 100,000.00 – 165,000.00 (Min. – Max.)

Eligibility Criteria

UN-Women invites qualified parties to submit Technical and Financial Proposals to provide services associated with the UN-Women requirement for a Responsible Party.
UN-Women is soliciting proposals from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).Women’s organizations or entities are highly encouraged to apply.
Technical/functional competencies:
- In-depth technical knowledge and understanding of gender and development issues, and government socio economic policies including the recently adopted National Development Strategy, as well as international and regional gender equality frameworks.
- Knowledge and experience in facilitating, conducting trainings and development of programme management tools to measure impact.
- Experience managing and facilitating consultative processes working with diverse groups, including at community level.
- Experience working with or engaging state actors, including at local government level, on gender equality, women’s leadership, and empowerment issues and actions.
- Experience working in complex settings, particularly in delivering results in the COVID– 19 context.
- Programme staff with Graduate degrees in the areas of Economics, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Gender, Women’s Law, Law, or any other relevant field.
CSO Criteria:
- Duly registered under the laws of Zimbabwe
- Demonstrates relevant programmatic experience for at least 5 years in specific MPTF safe market programme epriority areas
- Knowledge and experience in programme design and management, community mobilisation, organisational development
- Substantive knowledge and understanding of gender equality and economic empowerment of women.
- Sound understanding of gender issues and gender mainstreaming in local governance.
- Track record of mainstreaming gender in infrastructural projects/programmes; work on market related infrastructure an added advantage
- Technical expertise on gender equality issues and more broadly, women in governance and meaningful participation in decision making, leadership, women’s economic empowerment, ending violence against women and girls, including sexual harassment in public spaces.
- An established organisational culture of accountability and commitment to delivery of results
- Administrative and financial capacity to manage budgets of more than $50,000 annually supported with a track record of quality and timely project results and unqualified audit reports in the preceding years prior to submission of the application.
- Demonstrates experience in facilitating constructive and inclusive engagement and dialogue, with the goal of contributing to socio-economic development.
- Demonstrable capacity – human, financial and technical to deliver results at national and sub-national levels.
Mandatory requirements/pre-qualification criteria:
- Confirm that the services being requested are part of the key services that the proponent has been performing as an organization.
- Confirm proponent is duly registered or has the legal basis/mandate as an organization
- Confirm proponent as an organization has been in operation for at least five (5) years
- Confirm proponent has a permanent office within the location area.
- Proponent must agree to a site visit at a customer location in the location or area with a similar scope of work as the one described in this CFP.
- Confirm that proponent has not been the subject of a finding of fraud or any other relevant misconduct following an investigation conducted by UN Women or another United Nations entity.
- Confirm that proponent has not been the subject of any investigations and/or has not been charged for any misconduct related to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA).
- Confirm that proponent has not been placed on any relevant sanctions list including as a minimum the Consolidated United Nations Security Council Sanctions List(s), United Nations Global Market Place Vendor ineligibility and the EU consolidated Sanction list.