Deadline: 6 December 2019
UN Women is seeking proposals for its “EU/UN Spotlight Initiative 009-2019”.
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) have embarked on a new, global, multi-year initiative focused on eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) known as the EU/UN Spotlight Initiative.
The Spotlight Initiative places all forms of VAWG at the center of efforts to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Through a comprehensive approach, the Spotlight Initiative will focus its work on eliminating SGBV and HP, and addressing SRHRs, through six key pillars:
- developing and implementing relevant legislation and policies;
- strengthening national and sub-national institutions;
- preventing violence through evidence-based programmes and campaigns;
- establishing essential services for victims and survivors;
- ensuring the collection and use of prevalence and incidence data;
- working with civil society organizations and women’s movements.
Expected Outcome and Output
Outcome
This project will invest in addressing Outcome Six (CSOs and Women Rights Groups) of the Liberia Spotlight Initiative (LSI) under the outcome statement:
- A coherent, inclusive, and empowered CSO and Women’s movement framework to eliminate violence against women and girls is strengthened and operationalized at the national, subnational and community levels.
Output
- Women’s rights groups and relevant CSOs are better supported to use social accountability mechanisms to support their advocacy and influence on prevention and response to VAWG and GEWE more broadly.
Activity Target group
The implementation of the project will be based on inclusive and participatory approach involving Civil Society Organisations and Women Rights Groups to use social accountability mechanism and strengthen their capacity on advocacy, management, administration, finance, HR, Monitoring & Evaluation, Reporting including resource mobilization. The selected implementing partner(s) will work along with CSOs Coalitions and Networks in each of the 5 Spotlight Counties in the identification of participants.
Project Location
The project will target five counties (Lofa, Grand Cape Mount, Montserrado, Nimba and Grand Gedeh) based on the prevalence of SGBV as evidenced by the Social Cohesion and Reconciliation (SCORE) Study including aggression by respondents in daily life; their endorsement of political violence; and their endorsement of SGBV and HPs, as well as data on SGBV by the MGCSP and the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) data from the Ministry of Health (MoH).
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=61367
