Deadline: 5-Jun-23
UN Women Strategic Note 2022-25 seeks to support women and their organizations and networks, to strengthen feminist leadership and knowledge, develop strategies to address discrimination and violence across institutions (households, communities, governance institutions and so on) and access their rights and entitlements as equal citizens.
The Feminist Leadership building programme will convene and support multi-partner advocacy strategies, platforms and dialogues between governments, youth led organisations, civil society and other stakeholders. The programme will promote youth voices and reach to build broad-based support for the gender equality agenda.
UN Women’s ‘Generation Equality Forum’ (GEF) Programme focuses on building on the centrality of women’s, youth and grassroots organizations and solidarity networks. The programme invests in the leadership and aspirations of grassroots women’s and youth organizations, especially those from marginalized communities who face structural barriers and discrimination. UN Women is the National Convener for The Generation Equality Forum (GEF) is working globally to support youth-led organizations and networks, young women’s and girls’ human rights groups, and young gender equality advocates. It is promoting safe and enabling environment at the local, national, sub national and global level. The GEF advocacy efforts promises to tackle the unfinished business of empowering women through a new, ground-breaking, multigenerational campaign: “Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights for an equal future”.
UN Women’s global Generation Equality Framework has identified Feminist Movement and leadership Building as one of the overarching priorities. The key components of Generation Equality Campaign are:
- Increasing youth and women’s leadership and participation in intergovernmental processes and global agenda-setting dialogues and
- Building ownership and action within government for strong policy commitments towards ending violence against women and girls in all diversities.
Objectives
- Building on the successful implementation of the previous phase the UN Women’s India Country Office (ICO) is inviting non-governmental organisations to submit proposals for a grant towards Young Feminist Leadership Building for its next phase. In the next phase spread over two years that is 2023-24, UN Women will continue to strengthen feminist leadership and movement building, with a focus on youth and policy advocacy with the objectives of:
- building capacities of young feminists to play leadership roles in advancing gender equality, and
- scaling diverse feminist initiatives aimed at leadership building.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should beMin. INR90,00,000- Max 1,20,00,00.
- Timeframe: July 2023 to Dec 2024.
Scope of Work
- The Feminist Leadership building programme will convene and support multi-partner advocacy strategies, platforms and dialogues between governments, youth led organisations, civil society and other stakeholders. The programme will promote youth voices and reach to build broad-based support for the gender equality agenda. The proposed partnership will create spaces for connections and learning across communities, organizations, and sectors. This will be achieved by creating off and online Communities of Practice with wider participation of government, civil society organizations and other stakeholder to engage them addressing the challenges and providing solutions for accelerating gender equality in India.
- UN Women is inviting proposals from CSOs to implement the next phase of the GEF programme that would lead to following outcomes:
- Increased representation of youth voices in national and local development programming and policy reforms aimed at enhancing adolescent girls and young women’s leadership and political participation.
- Amplified voices of youth advocates to end violence against women and girls.
- Active engagement of boys and young men for gender equality
- Increased collaboration and intergenerational partnerships between youth and women’s empowerment initiativesfor gender equality.
- Indicative list of issues in GEF: Gender-based discrimination and gender-based violence, intersectionality and unequal access and opportunities (education, health and well-being, water and sanitation, food security, employment/work, commons, productive assets, property and inheritance, public spaces and infrastructure, public services, political participation and leadership, markets, finance, technology, sports and recreation, safety and security, legal aid, climate intelligence, etc.)
Components
- Component I. Build and strengthen capacities for advancing feminist leadership on intergovernmental processes among youth.
- Component 2: Building and facilitating inclusive youth campaigns for gender equality.
- Component 3: Monitoring & Reporting
Eligibility Criteria
- Be duly registered legally as an organization under appropriate laws.
- Have an established organisational culture of accountability and commitment to delivery of results.
- Internal programmatic, administrative, and financial capacity for budgets of more than $50,000 annually supported with a track record of quality and timely project results.
- Have a permanent office within India and been in operation for at least 5 years.
- Technical/functional competencies required
- Substantive knowledge and demonstrated experience of implementing large scale/national/regional programmes focusing on youth and women’s leadership, capacity building, political participation and mentorship.
- Demonstrated experience of incubating and mentoring young feminist leadership (publications/ white papers/ policy notes etc. on feminist leadership grassroots programme should be submitted as annexures for the technical capacity review).
- Existing staff with technical expertise on gender equality issues, specifically on women’s human rights, women’s political participation and leadership.
- Have a primary focus on advancing women’s equality and human rights, with these goals clearly reflected in its organisational mandate and programmatic interventions; must be committed to feminist principles and rights-based approaches.
- Existing engagement/ access to women and youth focused organisations, networks and groups.
- Qualifications of Team Leader
- Advanced university degree in Social Work, Gender Studies, Women Studies, International Development, or a related relevant field
- At least 8 years of experience in youth related projects with demonstrated experience on project cycle management, financial and administrative management will be considered an advantage;
- Experience of managing projects funded by UN agencies or other international organizations will be an added advantage but not mandatory.
- Qualifications of Team members
- Advanced university degree in Social Policy, Development Policy, Gender Studies, Social Work or a related relevant field is required.
- At least 7 years of experience on field level programmes and working with youth networks, youth led spaces on leadership, ending violence against women and women’s economic empowerment.
- The following criteria will be used for evaluating the proposals received from CSOs:
- CSOs having a national presence and outreach in India.
- CSOs and networks engaged at national or regional level in building and strengthening feminist leadership youth programmes.
- Demonstrated experience of at least 5 years incubating and mentoring youth leadership programmes and intersectional approach to gender equality
- The proposer should cover at least three proposed geographical locations with youth representation from at least 8 states across India (South, West, North-East, North, Central India).
- Relevant publications/white papers/ policy notes etc. that best demonstrate/describe the organisation’s capacity in integrating/advancing feminist leadership grassroots programme should be submitted as annexures for a technical capacity review.
- Technical qualifications and required experience of the proposed Team Leader and team members.
- Note for submission: Technical and financial should be submitted in one email in two separate folders.
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