Deadline: 10-Apr-22
UN Women is seeking Responsible Parties to implement initiatives related to the three areas of work:
- Promoting socially cohesive and peaceful communities: The objective of this area of work is to support the development and implementation of women-led needs- based plans that promote reconciliation and prevent conflict, improve access to justice, particularly focussing on access to justice for women, support alternative dispute resolution mechanisms that safeguard and promote women rights. This may include establishing creative and safe ways to build alliances around shared values and/or issues related to gender equality women’s rights and their safety and security.
- Supporting human rights monitoring mechanisms: The objective of this area of work is to support CSOs in mapping and analyzing evidence on women’s rights and supporting human rights monitoring mechanisms, particularly focussing on gathering evidence on protection of women human rights. Against a fraught environment for rights, since August 15, with the dismantling of the Afghanistan Human Rights Mechanism (AIHRC) a major shift in Afghanistan has been the absence of an independent impartial fully functioning human rights monitoring mechanism. To address this gap, an independent, civil society led mechanisms/networks that seeks to identify the gaps in accountability mechanism and capacities for full respect of women human rights will be essential.
- Protecting women human rights defenders (WHRDs): UN Women Afghanistan focuses on reaching the most at risk population, in particular women human rights defenders (WHRDs), women civil society activist, women journalists, women civil servants from the previous government and women movement leaders – these women urgently need support that gives them access to information and services that will safeguard their psychosocial health, safety and security, access to resources and opportunities that will mitigate risks of being exploited, and enhance self-reliance and participation in decision making. The objective of this area of work is to support CSOs to run initiatives aimed at protecting WHRDs in Afghanistan.
Details
All applications should demonstrate how the project(s) will:
- Ensure that women and girls from hard-to-reach populations and provinces are included in all activities and that an intersectional approach is undertaken (women with different backgrounds, religious beliefs, women with disabilities, women from diverse geographies, and various age groups);
- Embed conflict sensitivity in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the project, taking into account the safety and security of project personnel and beneficiaries;
- Deliver in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic;
- Adjust to contextual challenges related to working on the Afghanistan context, including ability to delivery and operate in-country;
- Undertake monitoring and evaluation, including collection of baseline and end line monitoring data to measure intended project outputs.
Funding Information
- Promoting socially cohesive and peaceful communities – $50,000 to $75,000
- Supporting human rights monitoring mechanisms – $100,000 to $150,000
- Protecting women human rights defenders – $125,000 to $200,000
- UN Women is seeking partners to implement projects of up to 12 months between 15 May 2022 and 15 May 2023.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required
- Demonstrated expertise in women’s rights and gender equality in Afghanistan;
- Demonstrated experience in one of the three workstream areas;
- Experience in implementing adaptive programming that embeds conflict and gender sensitive approaches;
- Ability to work across Afghanistan’s diversity, including women from diverse backgrounds, religious beliefs, ages, geographies, abilities;
- Capacity to deliver expected results (governance and management competencies in Afghanistan, 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.
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Women-led organizations based within Afghanistan, regional organizations, youth organizations, INGOs, human rights organizations and organizations of people with disabilities (OPDs) are strongly encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=89504