Deadline: 7-Dec-20
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched “Girls’ Lower Secondary Education Programme (GLSEP) in Pakistan”, to strengthen gender equality in Pakistan.
The objective of this Call for Partnership (CFP) is to hire services of a civil society organization (Not for profit) with sound expertise in implementing educational programme coupled with having strong local presence to undertake activities related to community mobilization and improvement in school physical and learning environment to improve the status of Girls’ Lower Secondary education in the target districts.
More specifically, the programme is aimed to achieve the following objectives:
- Create a demand for continuation of girls’ education beyond primary to lower secondary level through working with local communities in the target districts;
- Improve access to and retention of adolescent girls in lower secondary education through improving school physical environment and providing support to girls and teachers in the target districts;
- Provide optimum learning opportunities to learners through a focused approach to teachers’ training, pedagogical contents and classroom strategies in the target districts.
Beneficiaries
- Over 100,000 primary and lower secondary school girls, teachers, parents, SMCs, local community groups, local organizations, provincial and district education officials in the target areas.
Location: District Mohmand in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Muzaffargarh in South Punjab and Tharparkar in Sindh.
Eligibility Criteria
- A UNESCO Implementation partner is an entity to which UNESCO has entrusted partially or fully the implementation of programmes or projects specified in a signed document, along with the assumption of full responsibility and accountability for the effective use of resources and the delivery of outputs as set forth in such a document.
- Main features of an Implementation Partner’s Agreement
- The partner brings added value including monetary or in kind contribution to the project/activity;
- The partner shares in the risks and rewards of the project/activity implementation and is responsible and accountable for delivering expected results;
- The partner is involved at each step of the process, from detailed work plan elaboration to project/activity evaluation;
- The partnership will include aspects beyond the delivery of a service to include capacity-building elements with respect to the partner and/or beneficiary.
For more information, visit https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/117945