Deadline: 12 March 2018
UN Women is inviting applications to submit technical and financial proposals for its EVAW SEJ Programme. UN Women firmly believes that addressing violence against women requires a multipronged approach of access to protection and justice, economic and social empowerment of women, creating enabling environment for women and girls through prevention of violence, and sound policy actions.
UN Women through its flagship programme Survivors’ Empowerment Journey (SEJ) seeks to address these approaches through the survivor-centred approach in the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) under its Development Result Framework (DRF).
UN Women Afghanistan is supporting national counterparts, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Ministry of Women Affairs (MoWA), Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD), Parliamentary bodies, and civil society organizations among other entities, in implementing the National Priority Programme Women Economic Empowerment (NPP-WEE) and other National Action Plans and strategies in the areas of elimination of violence against women and girls (EVAW/G).
The midwifery programme has great potential to contribute to sustainable improvements in availability and quality of services in the targeted communities in Afghanistan. The programme will provide learning opportunities to over 30 women prepare each graduate to function as an autonomous midwife who can practice based on the standards and core competencies, educate future midwives, design and conduct research.
Objectives
The specific objectives of the programme are to:
- Provide detailed guidance on how to set up or develop midwifery services that fit a community’s specific
health system and health workforce - Operationalise the common understanding of the fundamental role that midwifery services play in
improving women’s and children’s health - Development phase
- Set quality indicators for midwifery training courses and trainees based on community and market
demand. - Provide framework for design, the implementation, and evaluation of the quality of the programme.
- Align with regulatory bodies the scope of midwifery practice in Afghanistan.
- Establish minimum length for the community midwifery training programme.
- Establish minimum entry level of students and other qualifications.
- Develop and operationalize competency-based teaching and learning strategies.
- Develop minimum content of curriculum beginning with essential competencies for the programme clients, including criteria for learning resources/practice facilities.
- In place system for ongoing evaluation of students, teachers, the curriculum.
- Set quality indicators for midwifery training courses and trainees based on community and market
- Implementation phase
- Hold midwifery programme accountable to community.
- Meet national and local workforce needs for qualified midwives.
- Qualifications of midwifery theoretical and clinical teachers.
- Assessment of trainees’ skill retention using national quality performance standards for antenatal care
(ANC), normal and complicated labor and delivery, and postnatal care (PNC). - Identify gaps between the skills available and the skills needed for employment of the trainees.
- Influence the development of new job roles and the way midwives can work together to earn income.
- Develop linkages with existing health related agencies for the deployment of the trainees.
- Anticipate and manage risk, particularly in relation to disruptions to service delivery arising from project
implementation. - The RP will closely work in coordination with CDCs, triable elders’ relevant government entities, and youth directorate.
- Post Implementation phase
- Provide an orderly way to respond to internal or external changes to the environment that impact on
midwife’s employment opportunities. - The proponent is required to consider the following programme principles into consideration when developing their proposals and actual project implementation plan:
- Prioritize Respect
- Safety
- Confidentiality for all survivors.
- Do no harm. All activities are carefully designed and will be implemented to pose no threat to women and their children, including but not limited to survivors.
- Clients’ right for choice is at the centre of all interventions.
- Follow a non-prescriptive approach in all programme interventions and will respect women’s choices and decisions, providing as much information to them as possible to better inform decisions and request consent for actions taken on their behalf.
- Provide an orderly way to respond to internal or external changes to the environment that impact on
- Improving coordination
- Aims to facilitate coordination with simitar initiatives of other programmes, agencies, and institutions into an effective action.
- The programme will assume a coordinating function and act as a source of knowledge for other organizations.
- Building partnerships.
- Try to not duplicate existing projects, but will partner with the private sector, other donor-funded initiatives and government projects, and the burgeoning financial sector, wherever possible.
Focus Areas
The programme focuses on:
- strengthening the quality of delivery of entry point services, including mechanisms for early mediation and reconciliation through Women Protection Centers (WPCs) and Family Guidance Centers (FGCs)
- access to improved protection, and economic empowerment support for successful and safe reintegration of survivors of Violence against Women (VAW) into communities, including families.
Eligibility Criteria
- Technical/functionai competencies required
- Reputation of Organization and Staff:
- Documented successful track record (for newly formed organizations, the personnel to be assigned to the UN Women project should have a proven track record of 5 years in the subject field).
- A proven commitment to results (able to provide records of successful projects).
- Proven credibility in the country or region or in the original country of location, especially credibility in terms of working towards gender equality, women’s rights and economic empowerment.
- General Organizational Capability:
- Strength of project management on conducting successful and standard trainings on women economic empowerment and establishing linkages with markets.
- Track record of working at community and preferably with women and handling livelihood works.
- Record and evidence of organizational culture of accountability, such as a written code of conduct, measures on anti-corruption and sexual harassment policy.
- A track record of delivering quality and timely project results.
- Organizational expertise in the area of specified programme:
- Evidence that the organization can conduct quality trainings, handhoiding and other needed support to the clients of the project or previous experience and expertise of successfully managing projects of same nature.
- Accountability and Financial Control:
- A functioning internal control framework and process to deliver quality and timely project results.
- Grassroots presence/Outreach:
- Evidence of the organization having grassroots presence and or affiliation with other similar strong qualified organizations in the country.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Country: Afghanistan
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