Deadline: 28-May-22
UN Women Somalia has announced a calls for proposals for the implementation of a programme focused on promoting women’s representation and meaningful participation in decision-making and leadership positions in peace and political processes, which is fundamental to securing durable peace, political stability, and security in Somalia.
The programme will also provide a transformative vision for a women-centered, human rights-based, and gender-responsive approaches to peacebuilding. Consequently, as a part of the peacebuilding process, the programme will harness and further strengthen women peacebuilder networks and forums.
This approach will center women’s enhanced representation, greater voice and meaningful participation in peace and political processes at national and local level as reinforcing more robust protections of women’s human rights and advocacy thereof. Consequently, as a part of the peacebuilding process, the programme will harness and further strengthen women peacebuilders networks and forums, providing solid ground for sustaining change with women-led organizations and forums in positions of leadership.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be $195,000-$200,000.
- The project is to last tentatively from 20 June 2022 – 31 December 2023.
Outcomes
- Enhanced representation and meaningful participation of women in political, legislative and peace infrastructures and processes to promote, sustain and consolidate peace, and gender-responsive approaches to peacebuilding.
- An enabling environment for women’s participation in peacebuilding efforts at all levels is created through strengthened protection and prevention mechanisms and structures at FGS, FMS and community levels and through addressing negative social norms.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required
- Evidence-based programming, building on lessons learned and recommended practices, to ensure optimal results and use of resources.
- Human rights-based and gender-responsive approaches that place first priority on promoting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights of women and girls as well as strengthening institutional capacities at local levels to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women.
- Focus on disadvantaged groups, including those living in poverty or otherwise especially excluded, and ensuring responsiveness to diversity.
- Coordination and multi-sectorial partnerships, including among government organizations, nongovernmental organizations, women’s and other civil society groups.
- Commitment to sharing knowledge, by documenting, evaluating and disseminating results, and working with UN Women staff.
- Priority placed on sustainability of results.
- Experience in peacebuilding, establishment of women networks at the community levels, early warning systems in the area of strengthening women peace and protection and advocacy on women and girls’ rights, harmful practices and as well support to development of women peacebuilders, networks, early warning systems, capacity development and strengthening legal systems programme or related fields.
- Applying partners must introduce a section for knowledge management to showcase how they will mobilize, disseminate and ensure action from knowledge generated from this project.
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Transformation of inequitable gender norms and power disparities between women and men, and empowerment of women and girls to thrive as equals through early warning systems, decision making and political participation.
- Holistic responses that address women and girls’ inter-related rights and needs, including safety, decision making process, peacebuilding process and protection of the women girl’s rights through peacebuilders, networks, early warning systems, capacity development and strengthening legal systems mechanisms.
For more information, visit https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/programme-implementation/2022/05/call-for-proposals-unw-esa-som-cfp-2022-004-women-peace-and-protection-somalia