Deadline: 24-May-2024
With a view to implementing its Strategic Note 2024-2027 through its Biannual Work Plan 2024-2025 and building on its organizational values, UN Women would like to identify implementing partner organizations/institutions and build a database, and to this end invites any organization/institution qualified in the given areas to submit its proposal for a potential local partnership for the operational implementation of its Biannual Work Plan 2024-2025.
UN Women encourages the participation of women in all spheres of society and emphasizes four priority areas: (i) Governance and participation in public life, (ii) Economic empowerment of women, (iii) eradication violence against women/Human Rights and (iv) Women, peace and security, humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction. In all of these priority areas, UN Women makes gender equality a central concern in planning and budgeting for development issues at the national level.
To achieve the objectives set in these priority areas, partnerships with, among others, the government, Civil Society Organizations, the media, academia and international organizations and foundations are essential. Indeed, UN Women remains aware that when they pool the expertise and resources, they are a powerful engine for change and progress. And, by establishing good and fruitful partnerships, UN Women aims for greater coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, visibility and sustainability in the implementation of programs aimed at gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal must be a budget not exceeding 250,000,000 BIF.
Timeline
- Relaunch of the call for proposals: May 8, 2024
- Deadline for submitting expressions of interest: May 24, 2024
- Start and end date of services:
- The total duration of the agreement to be signed with the organizations/institutions of the successful applicants will be until December 2025 from the date of the agreement, with the possibility of extension if the need arises, performances are satisfactory and if the budget is available.
Required Services/Results
- Provide professional services including technical expertise to ensure that the following deliverables are delivered within the stipulated timelines for the UN Women Biannual Work Plan:
- Impact 1: Governance and participation in political life
- Outcome 1.1: By 2027, more Burundians, especially the most vulnerable, benefit from a system of strengthened governance through regional integration;
- Output 1.1.1. Line ministries, UN agencies, parliament and other partners coordinated their approaches and strengthened their capacities with a view to the development and/or adoption of laws, policies, strategies, programs, plans and budgets taking into account the gender dimension.
- Indicative activities:
- Strengthen government capacity for grounded gender-sensitive assessment at the national level to advocate for gender-responsive planning and budgeting that supports the implementation of gender equality principles women in the framework of the law on the state budget and the achievement of the SDGs, as well as the gender sensitivity of the integrated financial framework.
- Provide technical and financial support to the Ministry of Local Development to analyze communal plans (PCDC) and their annual budget (PDI) from the perspective of gender-responsive budgeting that advances the development and implementation of a framework integrated financial plan for the SDGs, the National Gender Policy and the National Action Plan of Resolution 1325.
- Provide financial and technical support to the Ministry of Gender to revise the previous gender equality policy, formulate and disseminate the new national gender equality policy and the national strategic plan to fight against GBV
- Indicative activities:
- Output 1.1.2. Women – including leaders – have the knowledge and technical and financial capacity to assert their rights and participate in national and local governance structures, including conflict prevention and resolution mechanisms.
- Indicative activities
- Provide financial and technical support to organize high-level platforms for women leaders (mediators, gender equality advocates, political parties, CSOs) on governance, leadership, communication, networking and mobilize them to They plead together for the effective implementation of priorities linked to PNG and PAN 1325 and for a better positioning of women in the 2025 elections.
- Provide technical and financial support to women leaders to advocate for a process of reform of the electoral normative framework that promotes women’s leadership and their participation in decision-making bodies at all levels.
- Provide technical assistance and training to political parties to integrate the gender dimension into their structures, including by developing gender-responsive political programs and combating violence against women during electoral campaigns.
- Strengthen the capacity of women-led organizations to work closely with the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) to implement their strategy to improve the participation of women, including internally displaced persons, people living with disabilities and those belonging to vulnerable groups, in all phases of the 2025 electoral process, and strengthen the internal capacity of civil society focal points for gender equality
- Provide technical and financial support to the network of Women Actors for Peace and Dialogue (AFAPD) for its effective functioning, good governance and the implementation of its initiatives such as community dialogues for the prevention and resolution of conflicts, social cohesion, with emphasis on electoral conflicts.
- Indicative activities
- Output 1.1.3 Women’s organizations and networks of human rights organizations have the capacity to mobilize communities, including men and boys, for women’s participation in decision-making and economic opportunities.
- Indicative activities:
- Provide technical and financial support to the media to carry out programs aimed at promoting positive social norms and responsible behavior to mobilize women for their leadership and political participation in decision-making and conflict prevention, as well as as to develop reactive initiatives aimed at combating violence against women.
- Provide technical and financial support to local women’s rights organizations and women-led civil society organizations to increase women’s meaningful participation, decision-making and involvement in conflict prevention processes and social cohesion.
- Provide technical and financial support to men’s and youth organizations advocating for gender equality, including youth clubs in schools, to mobilize the community for equal rights and opportunities and non-discrimination in all areas of national life, including in the economic, social and political sectors.
- Support women’s networks to convene strategic GEWE platforms, including facilitating the participation of marginalized groups in advocating for women’s leadership in all local governance structures, including economic empowerment groups and cooperatives. self-developed.
- Provide technical and financial support to organizations defending the rights of vulnerable people and other social actors to mobilize the community around the issue of the rights of street women and provide self-affirmation measures for this marginalized category.
- Indicative activities:
- Output 1.1.4 Targeted public institutions have the necessary capacities and tools to produce, disseminate and use gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data to inform the development of policies and strategies on gender equality. women and men.
- Indicative activities:
- Provide financial support to the government to develop new tools and adapt existing tools to collect and analyze data disaggregated by sex, age and disability to inform the development and implementation of gender-sensitive policies (Partner: MINIFIN-INSBU).
- Provide financial and technical support to decentralized INSBU services for the regular organization of user-producer dialogues in order to raise awareness and develop user capacities on gender data
- Train women’s rights organizations and media on the use of data for advocacy and reporting processes for different national reports, human rights reports, Beijing, etc.
- Engage in dialogues with national gender equality mechanisms on the Gender Equality Update, helping them meet the challenge of populating the gender equality database with all indicators selected in the framework of the national gender equality policy, to be extended to the Beijing Platform for Action as a broader reference.
- UN Women effectively supports the UN’s accountability to commitments on gender equality and women’s empowerment
- Indicative activities:
- Output 1.1.1. Line ministries, UN agencies, parliament and other partners coordinated their approaches and strengthened their capacities with a view to the development and/or adoption of laws, policies, strategies, programs, plans and budgets taking into account the gender dimension.
- Outcome 1.1: By 2027, more Burundians, especially the most vulnerable, benefit from a system of strengthened governance through regional integration;
- Impact 2: Women benefit from a secure income, decent work and economic autonomy.
- Outcome 2.1. By 2027, more Burundians, especially the most vulnerable, benefit from an economic more diverse and more inclusive, notably through regional integration;
- Output 2.1.1. Women in producer groups and cooperatives have the capacity to access key value chains, productive resources and markets.
- Indicative activities:
- Strengthen the management capacities (business planning, leadership, accounting, ICT, conflict resolution and marketing) of women’s and girls’ groups/cooperatives to enable their integration into food systems and cross-border trade networks.
- Train the Women’s Development and Investment Bank (BIDF) and local microfinance institutions on gender mainstreaming in financial policies and decisions to improve women’s financial inclusion.
- Establish an operational mechanism for management and monitoring of guarantee funds held by microfinance institutions, in collaboration with the Ministry in charge of gender and the Central Bank (BRB).
- Provide equipment and new technologies (solar energy, ICT, etc.) to cooperatives and women’s associations for development, including the transformation of food systems into added value (production, aggregation, transformation, certification, marketing, etc.) for rice, corn, palm oil, etc.
- Indicative activities:
- Output 2.1.2. Young girls have enhanced capacities in coding and ICT
- Indicative activities:
- Strengthen multimedia centers by providing equipment and new technologies (computers, tables, chairs, stabilizing corrugators, printers, high-speed Internet connections, etc.) and organize coding camps and other ICT training to facilitate women’s empowerment and girls through science. , Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM).
- Organize media campaigns to raise awareness among girls and other stakeholders on the importance of ICT, working with the media and facilitating their networking with technology clubs, businesses, CSOs and other operators in the ICT sector.
- Indicative activities:
- Output 2.1.3. Women, including household members, are aware of improved food preparation and consumption of local food products with high nutritional value.
- Indicative activities:
- Train, coach and mentor women, girls and boys on the processing and fortification of local food products to improve both household income and nutritious food consumption.
- Strengthen the capacities of provincial and municipal multisectoral food security and nutrition platforms in terms of gender integration, for the implementation of a national gender-sensitive nutrition strategy.
- Train nutrition focal points in project intervention areas and media to use the men’s engagement strategy to develop materials and advocate for the voices and leadership of women and men in the food value chain. nutrition.
- Organize trade fairs, events during International Days and facilitate the sharing of experiences between Burundian women and other countries on women’s leadership in agri-food, nutrition, entrepreneurship
- Indicative activities:
- Output 2.1.1. Women in producer groups and cooperatives have the capacity to access key value chains, productive resources and markets.
- Outcome 2.1. By 2027, more Burundians, especially the most vulnerable, benefit from an economic more diverse and more inclusive, notably through regional integration;
- Impact 3: All women and girls lead lives free from any form of violence against them
- Outcome 3.1. By 2027, more Burundians, particularly children, youth, women and the most vulnerable, will have equitable and quality access to basic social services adapted to the life cycle.
- Output 3.1.1 Institutional partners and agencies of the United Nations System have technical capacities to analyze, plan, monitor, evaluate and report on the prevention and response to violence against women and girls, including sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.
- Indicative activities:
- Support and monitor the process of institutional support for the establishment of a national observatory to combat sexual and gender-based violence.
- Support the operationalization of a database and a coordinated digital system for monitoring cases of gender-based violence and interventions to improve access to information on prevalence, prevention and response to gender-based violence.
- Develop, update and standardize data collection, communication, reporting and training tools, as well as protocols and guidelines for institutions (public, CSOs and UN agencies) to provide services to victims of gender-based violence.
- Equip the SGBV department within the ministry in charge of gender, the Center of Excellence, the DPDFS and the Holistic Centers with computers, tablets, motorcycles, and set up a functional digital library.
- Provide technical and financial support to the Ministry of Gender for the dissemination and monitoring of the implementation of the national strategic plan to combat sexual and gender-based violence.
- Organize training sessions for staff from ministries of gender, health and AIDS, justice and public security in planning, data collection, analysis and reporting on related violence to sex.
- Indicative activities:
- Output 3.1.2 Survivors of gender-based violence benefit from improved access to quality, integrated, victim/survivor-centered services.
- Indicative activities:
- Advocate and educate community members about available survivor-centered services and providers.
- Organize training and coaching sessions for service providers/holistic care center staff, provincial social development directorates and members of community networks to combat GBV on protocols, planning, data collection, analysis, reporting on sexual and gender-based violence and on the management and prevention of sexual and gender-based violence at the community level.
- Equip holistic care centers for better clinical management of cases of gender-based violence (survivor kits, post-rape equipment/kits) and renovate the premises of the HUMURA center in collaboration with UN agencies.
- Facilitate access to justice, mental health, psychosocial assistance and socio-economic opportunities for survivors of gender-based violence, in collaboration with civil society organizations.
- Operationalize the national health helpline and call centers in five provinces to provide and refer GBV services to women, girls, boys and men towards service providers by accessing the orientation channel.
- Develop and use the tools of new information and communication technologies (NICT) to revitalize and strengthen the existing community alert and referral system for cases of sexual and gender-based violence (training of members, dissemination of messages and sharing of information on sexual and gender-based violence through NICTs)
- Indicative activities:
- Output 3.1.3 Institutional partners, civil society organizations, including women’s organizations, the private sector, the media and academia have strengthened their technical capacities to promote women’s human rights and positive social norms in favor of equality between men and women.
- Indicative activities
- Provide technical and financial support to government and women’s organizations to enable them to participate in events related to equality between women and men at community and national level (16 days campaign, JIF, JIFille, CSW, Unite campaign, etc.). Support the organization of intergenerational community dialogue sessions, gender discussion groups and men’s conferences on promoting positive norms.
- Conduct community mobilization campaigns with media, telecommunication companies, online television, social media on mechanisms of prevention and response to violence against women and reporting system, including AIDS/HIV awareness using the positive masculinity approach.
- Develop and implement gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS prevention initiatives led by opinion leaders (artists, men’s groups, gender champions, etc.), religious leaders and community organizations women, including albinos, internally displaced persons and returnees, with a focus on promoting positive cultural norms.
- Document and develop knowledge products on best practices and effective approaches to transform social norms to prevent gender-based violence.
- Indicative activities
- Output 3.1.1 Institutional partners and agencies of the United Nations System have technical capacities to analyze, plan, monitor, evaluate and report on the prevention and response to violence against women and girls, including sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.
- Outcome 3.1. By 2027, more Burundians, particularly children, youth, women and the most vulnerable, will have equitable and quality access to basic social services adapted to the life cycle.
- Impact 4: Women and girls contribute and have influence in building lasting peace and resilience and benefit equally from conflict and disaster prevention as well as humanitarian action.
- Outcome 4.1. By 2027, Burundians benefit from improved environmental and natural resource management practices and systems to prepare for and respond to natural and man-made shocks.
- Output 4.1.1 Women, including young women, have technical and financial capacity in climate-smart agriculture.
- Indicative activities:
- Strengthen the capacity and leadership of local communities, particularly women and girls, to participate in climate-sensitive agricultural activities, including accessing and managing climate finance.
- Raise awareness and support smallholder farmers, including women and youth, to access and use grants and credits to better transform food systems in the context of climate change.
- Strengthen the capacity of the municipal land office to integrate women and their needs into land demarcation and certification plans.
- Indicative activities:
- Output 4.1.2. Communities affected by natural and man-made shocks, particularly women and girls, have access to livelihood support to strengthen their recovery and resilience.
- Indicative activities:
- Provide survival kits (equipment, medical and psychosocial assistance) specifically intended for displaced, returnee and refugee women and girls, including women and girls who have survived the SGBV virus, in order to meet their urgent and specific.
- Provide start-up and other climate-appropriate equipment and conduct entrepreneurship training for internally displaced persons, returnees, refugees and host communities, including women and girls who are survivors of violence gender-related, to ensure sustainable livelihoods.
- Strengthen the capacity of the disaster risk reduction platform, including women’s and girls’ organizations, civil society and other actors, to integrate women and their needs into planning, response and evaluation of humanitarian interventions in the event of disasters, crises and pandemics.
- Indicative activities:
- Output 4.1.1 Women, including young women, have technical and financial capacity in climate-smart agriculture.
- Outcome 4.1. By 2027, Burundians benefit from improved environmental and natural resource management practices and systems to prepare for and respond to natural and man-made shocks.
- Impact 1: Governance and participation in political life
Skills
- Technical/Functional Skills Required
- Fundamental values:
- Respect for diversity
- Integrity
- Professionalism
- Basic skills
- Sensitivity regarding gender issues and women’s empowerment
- Responsibility
- Creative problem solving
- Effective communication
- Inclusive collaboration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Functional skills
- Applicant institutions/organizations must have:
- In-depth knowledge of the programmatic and operational rules and procedures and ethics of UN Women or other United Nations agencies;
- Solid knowledge and skills in applying project management, monitoring-evaluation and reporting tools;
- Proven skills in communicating results and mobilizing funds
- Increased advocacy and lobbying capacities in terms of gender integration in policies, sectoral programs and their budgeting.
- In addition, applicant organizations/institutions must meet the following conditions;
- Organizations/institutions submitting proposals must demonstrate the following skills and meet the following criteria/conditions:
- Be a nationally renowned NGO, CSO/national or international structure recognized by the competent national authority, with proven competence in the priority areas of UN Women and with strong community and strategic influence and anchoring;
- Have successfully executed projects/programs relating to one or other of the priority themes of the strategy to promote gender equality, economic empowerment, governance, the women’s agenda, peace and security, humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction and also have proven experience of at least 4 years;
- Achieve a minimum score of 3 on the gender marker with regard to the missions/vision/objectives of the applicant organization (only for civil society organizations)
- Have at least 75% women on the board of directors or other governance structure of the organization (only for civil society organizations)
- Justify the required administrative, technical and financial capacities;
- Provide audited financial statements covering the last two financial years carried out by recognized auditing firms of national/international repute or recognized institutions or individuals operating independently;
- Have the personnel and logistical means necessary for the services to be carried out.
- Have the human, material and technological resources necessary to meet quality and accountability requirements.
- To be eligible for partnership with UN Women, institutions and organizations must not be in any of the following situations, under penalty of exclusion:
- Be in a state of or subject to bankruptcy, liquidation, judicial settlement or preventive composition proceedings, cessation of activities, or be in any analogous situation resulting from a procedure of the same nature;
- Be the subject of a conviction pronounced by a judgment having the force of res judicata for any offense affecting their organizational morality;
- Having committed serious misconduct in professional matters ascertained by any appropriate means
- Have been the subject of a judgment having the force of res judicata for fraud, corruption, participation in a criminal organization or other illegal activity;
- Have been declared in serious breach of their contractual obligations in other grant award procedures financed by UN Women or by another United Nations agency;
- Have been accused and/or tried for sexual harassment, abuse and exploitation of project beneficiaries
- Organizations/institutions submitting proposals must demonstrate the following skills and meet the following criteria/conditions:
- Applicant institutions/organizations must have:
- Fundamental values:
For more information, visit UN Women.