Deadline: 19-Jul-2024
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) India Country Office plans to contract an organization (Civil Society Organizations, registered in India) to convene the stock taking exercise as part of the Beijing +30 review in India.
UN Women India country office plans to support the undertaking of comprehensive stock taking and document the progress made under BPfA, including its implementation and challenges encountered to achieve the agenda of gender equality and empowerment of women. The process will include taking stock of achievements, identifying gaps, and outlining strategies for addressing those gaps and challenges and chalking out priority actions, in close consultation with Civil Society, women’s right networks, human rights advocates, academia, media etc. The exercise will also align and build synergies with work on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and galvanize its gender-responsive implementation.
Since the process is to be driven by CSO, UN Women will be constituting a national level CSO Steering Committee through a process of self nomination in parallel with the selection of the agency. This voluntary CSO steering committee will work with the Anchor Agency towards ensuring an inclusive, participatory process in the convenings and follow up on the Beijing +30 review process at the National level. They will also work together to feed the outcomes of the convening at the sub-national levels are effectively communicated to the regional and global level.
There are two members from the Indian CSOs in the Asia Pacific Regional CSO committee who will be part of the CSO steering committee.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be INR 50,00,000- 55,00,000 (Fifty to fifty five Lakhs) only.
Timeframe
- 8 months starting 16th August 2024 to 15th April 2025.
- The project will be implemented in 7 months and the last month is for financial and programmatic reporting.
Required Services/Results
- The selected Anchor Agency will work in consultation with UN Women India in delivering high quality outputs under the assignment. Key components of the assignment will include the following:
- Coordination
- Conduct regular (fortnightly/monthly) meetings of the CSO steering committee for planning, designing and review of the consultative process
- Develop concept note defining processes and expected outcomes from Beijing +30 CSO review
- Design the consultations with clear outcomes to feed into the regional and global review processes
- Lay out consent protocols for participants in the Beijing +30 CSO review process
- Liaise with state stakeholders for sub – regional consultations in India ensuring balanced and inclusive representations from each state.
- Ensure that the recommendations, case studies and stock taking emerging out of the sub-regional, effectively flows in the national, regional and global Beijing +30 review processes
- Sub- national Consultations
- Three sub-regional consultations in India (a minimum of 50 participants each), each for 2 days.
- Logistical arrangements for travel, food and accommodation of all participants for these 2-day consultations to be paid for by Anchor agency.
- Support the organizing of a National consultation with UN Women; with government and CSO representatives from the sub regional consultations and national level experts.
- Regional and Global Processes
- The Beijing +30 national consultations feed into the regional and the global processes. The CSO forum will be held in Bangkok in November 2024 and culminate into the CSW69. The agency will finance travel grants for CSO delegates selected by the CSO Steering committee for these fora, in consultation with UN Women.
- Documentation
- Audio-visual documentation of the consultations.
- Written documentation of the outcomes of the consultations
- Creating pre-conference documents with CSO steering committee member, position papers/briefing notes on emerging themes for national and global review processes.
- Principles
- Leave no one behind- ensuring the most marginalised and the voice of those at the intersectionality of poverty are heard
- Representation from across networks, themes and constituencies
- A supportive and safe space for participants of this process
- Human rights of women and of the girl child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights.
- Flow processes that help connect the grass roots demands and concerns with the Beijing +30 processes.
- Coordination
Competencies
- Technical competencies
- The agency should have at least 08 years of experiences of programmes and advocacy work on gender, rights of women and girls. The agency must be part of feminist discourse building within the national, regional context.
- It is desirable that the agency has partnered with a UN system.
- Must have substantive experience of convening on women’s rights and gender equality with multiple stakeholders.
- Capacity to deliver expected results in current context (governance and management competencies, and financial and administrative competency).
- Legally registered (active registration status) with necessary documents in place
- Team Composition, Qualifications and Requirements
- The selected agency should have a team composition as described below:
- The working team will include a team leader and up to two associates and an operations manager who can ably hand the logistical aspects of the convenings involved in the project.
- Requirements for the Team Lead:
- Experience:
- At least 10 years of experience in GEWE programming within the Indian civil society space.
- Experience of being part of convening diverse groups and partnerships at the sub-national and national level on issues of gender equality.
- Experience:
- Requirements for Associates (up to 2):
- At least 4 years of experience in GEWE programming within the Indian civil society space.
- Requirements for Operations Manager:
- Experience:
- At least 4 years of experience working in operations and logistical support required for consultations.
- Experience:
- The selected agency should have a team composition as described below:
- Note for submission: Technical and financial should be submitted in one email in two separate folders. The proponent organisation must not indicate or disclose the programme budget in the technical proposal.
Ineligible
- The following are not eligible to apply to this Call for Proposals:
- The applicant does not have legal status in India.
- The applicant is on the Consolidated UN Security Council Sanctions list.
- The applicant is being investigated for fraud, corruption, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or other wrongdoing.
- The applicant is a government agency or institution, UN agency.
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