Deadline: 10-May-21
UN Women is calling proposals for Promoting Transparency, Institutional Effectiveness, and Inclusion for Conflict Prevention in Honduras.
This has been approved by the United Nations Peace building Fund (PBF) 1 and will be implemented in 2021 and 2022. This project will seek to contribute to improving public trust in the process selections, increase the levels of participation of underrepresented groups and prevent conflicts that can be presented in the electoral and social sphere at the national level in three areas of the country targeted by the project (Central District, San Pedro Sula and Choluteca).
Peacebuilding was defined in the UN Agenda for Peace in 1992 as those actions aimed at consolidating the peace and prevent the recurrence of armed conflicts, once a peace agreement has been signed.
However, this concept has evolved as it has been adapting to the contexts of political and social conflicts and violence that characterizes the world today and that could not in principle be classified as civil wars according to the international human right.
In this way, peacebuilding can also be understood as the whole of actions aimed at reducing the risks that could lead to an armed conflict or violations of human rights and generalized violence, by strengthening national and local capacities for conflict management and prevention.
The objective of this is to contribute to the prevention and transformation of conflicts at the local level and increase their levels of participation in different areas from a gender perspective.
These initiatives, generally invisible in national agendas, have allowed women have contributed from a variety of shores (politics, culture, art, education, entrepreneurship, politics, etc.) to build peace in their day to day, in their homes, in their community and public spaces.
Support for initiatives of “Women Builders of Peace” (IMCP) will be done through the creation of a fund and its respective allocation to different local initiatives. This fund will be managed and coordinated by a leading organization, which will be selected through this Call for Proposals.
The types of proposals of the initiatives that can be financed will be defined by a technical team, made up of the lead organization, an INAM representative, the respective WMO coordinator in each municipality or their delegate, and a representative of UN Women.
However, these will have to be framed within the fields of action of the Participaz Honduras project:
- Promote the participation and leadership of women in the prevention, management, and resolution of conflicts.
- Promote the participation of women in spaces of social oversight, political spheres at the local level.
- Contribute to changing stereotypes about the participation of women in public and political spheres.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be between US $ 50,000 and US 60,000.
Competencies
Technical / functional skills required
- Experience, knowledge, and participation in gender projects;
- Political participation of women and underrepresented groups; or peace building or conflict prevention.
- Experience in coordinating initiatives with women’s organizations in community contexts,
- multicultural in topics such as prevention against violence against women and girls; participation and empowerment of women in different areas
- Experience in the region of Central America and Honduras.
- With experience in projects developed in at least one of the prioritized municipalities, and capacity verifiable operational deployment in the targeted municipalities/territories.
- Previous experiences in managing funds or cascading grants.
- Relevant experience in partnerships with UN Women, other UN agencies, governments, NGOsand other development actors.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2021/04/call-for-proposals—proyecto-participaz-honduras