Deadline: 23-Mar-23
UN Women is accepting proposals for strengthening women’s participation in elections in Liberia.
Under this call, UN Women is planning to support women political aspirants at local level including young and marginalised women throughout the electoral cycle. In the view of the presidential and legislative election to take place in October 2023, a training programme to advance women’s political leadership and skills will be developed and delivered to increase the very low level of participation of women in elected positions.
UN Women Liberia Country office Strategic Note (SN) 2020-2024, which is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2020-2024, sets out to work in four thematic priority areas:
- ending violence against women and girls;
- governance and participation in public life;
- economic empowerment and resilience; and
- peace and security, humanitarian action, and disaster risk reduction.
Expected Tasks
The expected tasks of the partner agreement are as follows:
- Develop and deliver candidate training programme (based on UN women’s Political Leadership and Candidates Training Manual and workbook) to a minimum of 150 aspiring women to become involved in politics and run for election in 2023 from the 15 counties. Administer pre and post training tests and report the results in line with the manual.
- Provide and facilitate networking and peer to peer learning opportunities for women in politics and women aspirants
- Organise debates among political parties on gender equality and women empowerment issues
Modules
UN Women Political Leadership and Candidate Training Manual contains five Modules (four days training) covering sessions on core political leadership and campaign skill areas.
- Preparation and leadership: Transformative leadership; the decision to run; “your story”; the constituency, the political landscape, office, and electoral laws; political parties; and running as a woman.
- Communications: Creating a message; public speaking; creating a communications plan; promoting the interests of your political party; and talking about gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- Voter contact: Goal setting and targeting; and voter/constituent engagement.
- Fundraising: Money and fundraising sources in campaigns; fundraising tools and plan; and legislated and non-legislated political and campaign finance.
- Campaign management: Campaign plan; campaign team; and campaign budget. In preparation to the trainings the adaptation of the manual to country context will be done and a tailored manual will be prepared for Liberia in close consultation with UN Women Liberia Office.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be 180,000.00 – 200,000.00
- Timeframe:
- Indicative start date: 05 April 2023
- Indicative end date: 31 January 2024
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required:
- Track record of experience in the field of human rights, gender equality, women’s empowerment.
- Specialized knowledge and expertise in the field of training for women aspirants/ women political party members/
- Experience in engaging with multiple stakeholders, including but not limited to governmental and non-governmental organizations, political actors, and advocacy networks.
- Experience and proven track record/credibility and capacity on gender and development, RBM and its application to key processes (e.g., planning, programming, monitoring, reporting and evaluation), and other areas of expertise relevant to the services required;
- Capacity to deliver expected results: governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency.
- Relevant experience in partnerships with UN Women, other UN agencies, governments, NGOs, and other development actors
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services:
- Experience in facilitating exchange of ideas, good practices and dissemination of knowledge and information throughout Liberia in the field of women’s political participation is an asset.
- Familiarity with UN agencies will be an asset.
For more information, visit UN Women.