Deadline: 16-Apr-25
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund is requesting applications to identify eligible CSOs that could support girls and boys, adolescents from Roma and Egyptian community to develop skills, build positive relationships that will lead to better education outcome and consequently delay of child marriage.
Through the selected CSO, UNICEF is aiming to support girls and boys, adolescents and their parents in Roma and Egyptian community on raising knowledge and awareness of the importance of education and negative consequences of child marriage. Selected CSO should provide direct support to children and adolescents at risk of school drop-out through supporting life building skills, building links between community and school and improving children’s school attendance, and hence increase their opportunities to progress further in school.
Along with activities designed for girls and boys, support will be simultaneously provided to families with the aim to support families to have an active role to their children’s lives at school and beyond. In addition, innovative methods and activities for direct engagement of children and families to raise their knowledge and awareness of importance of education will be welcome. CSO should have already good cooperation with local municipalities and schools, trust by Roma and Egyptian community and youth services etc.
Sectors and Areas of Specialization
- Cross Sectoral Areas
- Gender equality and women empowerment
- Education
- Education – general
- Out-of-school education
- Protection
- Child protection
- Prevention of and response to crime/violence
Geographical Location
- Montenegro
- Podgorica
Expected Results
- The project aims to create a safe and nurturing environment for Roma and Egyptian boys and girl to develop their skills, build positive relationships, and achieve their full potential.
- It should result in improvement of children and youth to continue education and consequently delay child marriage.
Eligible Activities
- Activities to be focused on empowering of Roma girls and boys to exercise their right to education and healthy life and have more opportunities and alternatives to child marriage; interventions that provide one or more of the following activities to adolescent girls:
- building self-confidence through success stories of young Roma girls
- comprehensive sexuality education and care, education (in formal and non-formal settings)
- workshops on assertive communications skills
- workshops on identity (history and culture)
- workshops on IT skills
- Promotion the physical and mental health of children and youth through recreational activities, counselling, and health education
- Activities with local schools through supporting skills development of children and strengthening relationships between community and school, enhancing the capacity of educational services to engage with identified families, fostering positive communication and regular contacts with schools
- Engagement of parents in structured support between home, school and community through supporting them to become active participants in the child’s education at school and at home.
- Provide support and engaged to at least 50 children (at least 30 girls) from Roma and Egyptian community and 50 families within the period of 6 months
- The services and activities provision will be supported and documented, through CSO archive and M&E; system.
For more information, visit UNICEF.