Deadline: 8-Jun-21
UNESCO Beirut launches a call for proposals within its Social and Human Sciences programme, with the aim to promote positive role models for women to support young women’s career choices in the Arab region.
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General established the High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment in 2016 to bring together leaders from different constituencies—government, civil society, business and international organizations—to launch a shared global agenda that accelerates women’s economic participation and empowerment in support of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its promise that no one will be left behind.
Priority
- Identification and Collection of life stories
- Identification and collection of life stories will reflect the diversity of the Arab region1 and can build on 12 key areas for the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, where urgent action was needed to ensure greater equality and opportunities for women and men, girls and boys, can primarily serve to identify this research to focus:
- Women and poverty;
- Education and Training of Women;
- Women and health;
- Violence against women;
- Women and Armed Conflict;
- Women and the Economy;
- Women in power and decision-making;
- Insufficient mechanisms for the advancement of women;
- Human rights of women;
- Women and the media;
- Women and the environment and
- The girl-child
- Furthermore, the research will include UNESCO’s programme areas in Education, Natural Science, Human and Social Sciences, Communication & Information, Culture. Profiles in Sport and Art can be added.
- Identification and collection of life stories will reflect the diversity of the Arab region1 and can build on 12 key areas for the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, where urgent action was needed to ensure greater equality and opportunities for women and men, girls and boys, can primarily serve to identify this research to focus:
- Social media campaign to positively reverse stereotypes by disseminating Rolemodels lifestories
- To share the collected life stories of women by organizing a social media campaign.
Geographical Focus
Arab States region include: Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, KSA, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Oman & Bahrain
Eligibility Criteria
- Civil society organization, NGO, Women’s association, Private university or centre (research, academic, etc.) based in the Arab region
- Youth involvement is encouraged
- Proposed activity able to be implemented immediately and to be finalized by December 2021.
- Previous experience in gender equality, research and social media campaign in the Arab region
- Capability to communicate and work well in both English and in Arabic.
For more information, visit https://en.unesco.org/news/call-proposals-role-models-girls-and-young-women-arab-region