Deadline: 31-Mar-22
UN Women is offering grants under “Empowering Women Living with HIV for Solidarity and Secure Livelihoods” to strengthen the existing women’s core group network and continue to leverage their skills and knowledge to echo their voice and represent the voice of all HIV-affected women for gender responsive Covid-19 Pandemic response and for inclusive climate change action.
This includes providing HIV-affected women along with women in the community the capacity to expand climate-adaptive livelihoods options, improve advocacy and leadership skills, develop peer support and expanding the network and mentor women in a community.
Objectives
The specific project’s objectives are as below:
- To increase social accountability to implement gender-responsive actions through strengthening transformative leadership of women core group and advocacy at the grassroots.
- To strengthen community resilience as well as capacity to adapt to climate change in Roka by increased capacity and skills of Roka community members to undertake productive livelihoods activities with the understanding and skill to adapt to climate change;
- To promote feminist leadership and feminist climate change action generation among most vulnerable women group (women living with HIV, Women affected by HIV in the community)
Funding Information
- Budget requests should be no more than 35,000 US$
- Duration: 7 months
Criteria
- Confirm that the services being requested are part of the key services that the proponent has been performing as an organization. This must be supported by a list of at least two customer references for which similar service is currently or has been provided by the proponent.
- 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.
- 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. The Proponent must indicate if it is currently under investigation for fraud or any other relevant misconduct by UN Women or another United Nations entity and provide details of any such investigation.
- 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).
For more information, visit https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/CFP-KHM-2022-001-Strengthening%20Skills%20of%20HIV%20Affected%20Women.pdf
