Deadline: 21-Nov-22
UN Women NCO seeks to partner with OPDs or a consortium of OPDs to design and implement capacity development and advocacy interventions to promote gender responsive disability inclusion in the governance and development process of Nepal.
Objectives
- The overall objective of this initiative is to support women with disabilities from excluded groups and their OPDs to strengthen their voice and agency to advocate for gender and disability responsive planning, programming and budgeting in line with SDGs at all levels, in particular local level. The specific objectives are:
- Strengthen the capacity of the OPDs of women and excluded groups to organize themselves and advocate for disability responsive planning, and budgeting in line with SDGs
- Support OPDs to systematically engage in the national, provincial and local development coordination mechanisms (gov/UN/Independent) around SDGs and in humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
- Strengthen/establish a platform for learning and exchange at the provincial and local level among OPDs and key stakeholders to increase understanding of SDGs, CRPD, and inform innovative practices and strategies to advocate for disability rights and inclusion.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be [USD 90,000- USD 100,000].
- Duration: 12 months (1 January – 31 December 2023)
Methodologies/Approaches
- Arrangement of reasonable accommodation: The project will ensure reasonable accommodation to project participants and key stakeholders to ensure their access and meaningful participation in project activities. This includes but not limited to provision of sign language interpretations for meeting and workshops, documents, and information available in accessible format, accessible meeting/workshop venue for persons with diverse categories of disabilities.
- Collaboration and networking with federal and provincial level networks of organizations of persons with disabilities: The project will work closely with federal and provincial level networks of persons with disabilities in the design, implementation and monitoring of the project to build on past work and lesson learned to leverage the results of the project.
- Accompaniment and mentorship support for the optimal and sustainable use of institutional support: The selected responsible party will provide technical and accompaniment support to the OPDs/self-help groups to help them access and use the institutional support in an efficient manner. In order to enable women collectives/group business to access institutional support, the selected partner will support OPDs/self helps groups to register their organisations in relevant local authorities. Following the registration of OPDs/self-help groups, the responsible party will provide handholding support to adopt appropriate modality for optimal use of institutional support. This will include institutional support operation modality, management and operation of institutional support, building up institutional support for self-sufficiency etc.
- Collaboration with local governments: Past experiences demonstrated that collaboration and linkage with local government from early stage of intervention played critical role for ownership, sustainability and scalability of the programmes. With the objective to strengthen collaboration with the local government, the implementing partner will closely work with the local government from the project districts. This will also facilitate dialogue and advocacy to promote disability rights and inclusion at local governance and allocate resources and services for persons with disabilities.
- Alignment with Provincial and Local Governance Support Programme (PLGSP) interventions: The responsible party will align the project activities with the previous interventions of PLGSP on gender and disability mainstreaming at local level to leverage past interventions and strengthen sustainability. Further, the responsible party will coordinate with PLGSP provincial and local level implementation team for greater synergy and coherence.
Geographical locations
- The initiative will be rolled out in five LGUs from two provinces namely Karnali (Surkhet district- 2 LGUs) and Sudurpaschim (Kailali district- 3 LGUs) of Nepal. The name of LGUs from two districts will be finalized in the inception phase of the project.
Eligibility Criteria
- A minimum of five years of experience in organizing persons with disabilities, in particular women with disabilities and supporting them to challenge social stigmas, attitude around disability and advocate disability rights from gender and intersectional lens.
- Demonstrable organizational experience on promoting rights of persons with disabilities, in particular women with disabilities and underrepresented groups.
- Proven technical competencies in the application of human rights-based and feminist approaches to advance gender equality and for ensuring their voices and needs as rights-holders.
- Demonstrable experience in implementing programmes on gender equality, disability inclusion and women’s empowerment, and in formulating result-oriented programme, monitoring programme based on indicators and quality reporting.
- Proven organizational experience in building strategic partnerships, connections and networks with relevant partners, including government agencies, community-based organizations, CSOs at the provincial and local level.
- Demonstrable commitment to working with women, girls, other genders that are economically, socially, culturally, or otherwise excluded, excluded and/or marginalized.
Programme Management Team
- In order to manage and coordinate the intervention in an effective and timely manner, the selected partner agency/consortium is requested to establish a management team in charge of day-to-day management of this initiative in close coordination with UN Women. The management team will consist of but not limited to the following core members:
- One Team Leader with progressively responsible experience in programme management, gender and disability rights and inclusion and gender in humanitarian action, past experience in designing capacity development trainings and advocacy on disability rights and inclusion, coordination with multiple stakeholders including government and development partners
- Two District Coordinators with progressively responsible experience in managing programmes/project on disability rights and inclusion, past experience in designing, and implementing capacity development and advocacy work on disability rights, coordination with provincial and local level government, OPDs and their networks, good understanding of provincial and local level planning and budgeting process and coordination committees
- One Monitoring and Reporting Officer. The required personnel for community mobilization and outreach can be included in line with the TOR if deemed necessary and justified.
- The Responsible party will prioritise women with disabilities from excluded groups while recruiting the required personnel for the project management and implementation.
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