Civil Society Organizations Partnering with UN Women Lebanon on Women’s Economic Empowerment

Deadline: 12-Feb-25

The UN Women Lebanon Office welcomes applications for partnerships to achieve results towards women’s economic empowerment.

Lots

• Lott (1): Crisis Affected Women in Lebanon – Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection – in Crisis
• Lot (2): Protection, Livelihood and Participation of women and girls affected by crisis in OPT and south Lebanon

Components

• Lott (1): Crisis Affected Women in Lebanon – Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection – in Crisis
  • Outcome 1: Crisis-affected women in Lebanon access gender-responsive humanitarian assistance
  • Output 1: Crisis-affected women access short-term emergency livelihood support and support other crisis-affected women with basic assistance
  • Output 2: Provide crisis-affected women-led entities (community-based organizations, businesses, cooperatives) with emergency financial and technical assistance to enable them to maintain employment of women and operations through crisis and early recovery.
  • Output 3: Crisis-affected women and girls (refugees, returnees, IDPs and host community), including victims and survivors of GBV, have access to quality multisectoral protection services.
  • Output 4: Local women leaders exercise their voice, agency and leadership in humanitarian response, early recovery, and local peacebuilding.
• Lot (2): Protection, Livelihood and Participation of women and girls affected by crisis in OPT and south Lebanon 
  • Outcome 1: Crisis-affected women and girls increase their resilience through access to emergency livelihoods and gender-based violence (GBV) services that meet their needs.
  • Output 1: Crisis-affected women access short-term emergency livelihood support and support other crisis-affected women and communities
  • Output 2: Provide crisis-affected women-led entities (community-based organizations, businesses, cooperatives) with emergency financial and technical assistance to enable them to maintain employment of women and operations through crisis and early recovery.
  • Output 3: Crisis-affected women and girls (refugees, returnees, IDPs and host community), including victims and survivors of GBV, have access to quality multisectoral protection services.

Funding Information and Duration

• Lott (1): Crisis Affected Women in Lebanon – Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection – in Crisis
  • Budget: USD 1,800,000
  • Project duration: 18 months
• Lot (2): Protection, Livelihood and Participation of women and girls affected by crisis in OPT and south Lebanon 
  • Budget: USD 500,000
  • Project duration: 12 months

Geographic Focus

• Lot (1): 
  • Geographical area: Beirut/Mount Lebanon, Bekaa, Baalbek, South
• Lot (2): 
  • Geographical area: Nabatieh, South Governorate

Competencies

• Technical/functional competencies required
  • Organisations with a track record of working on advancing women’s rights and women`s economic empowerment, have a proven experience in managing designing emergency livelihood programmes tailored for women participants and/or providing technical and financial support to women-led businesses
  • Experience implementing cash-for-work and/or other cash-based programming is strongly preferred.
  • Capacity to deliver expected results: governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency.
  • Relevance of the mandate and the role of the organization to implement expected results and to contribute to the sustainability of said results.
  • Do no harm approach that aims to identify and mitigate the unintended negative effects of the humanitarian interventions.
  • The project adopts an approach that is sustainable and builds on local knowledge and institutional experiences.
  • Organizations to have physical presence in the areas of implementation of the project
• General Organizational Capability:
  • Proven financial capacity to deliver projects of a similar scope and scale;
  • Ability to convene a wide range of stakeholders, generating trust through participatory methods that ensures inclusivity and equal involvement of all parties concerned;
  • Ability to monitor and measure project results and impact, and willingness and capacity to work with UN Women’s monitoring and evaluation tools;
  • Track record of working in coordination local authorities and actors, UN, and other multilateral or bilateral actors;
  • Record and evidence of organizational culture of accountability, such as a written codes of conduct, policies and measures on child protection, protection against sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment;
  • Existing policy and operational frameworks that ensures compliance with international financial obligations including sanctions compliance, counter terrorism and anti-money laundering;

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