Deadline: 31-Mar-21
The UN Women Multi-Country Office (MCO) Caribbean is seeking to partner with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Grenada, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, to provide technical and financial assistance on social accountability for women’s rights groups. Groups that lead on shadow reporting processes will be prioritized.
It is expected that Women’s rights groups and relevant CSOs are better equipped to use social accountability mechanisms to support their advocacy and influence prevention and response to Violence Against Women and Girls, including family violence, and Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE) more broadly.
With this in mind, resources being made available under the respective Country Spotlight Projects for CSOs are as follows:
- Provision of social accountability grants and technical assistance for women’s rights/advocacy groups for activities including meaningful participation in national, regional and international accountability platforms/processes and to engage in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Universal Periodic Review (UPR), International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) processes.
- Provision of social accountability grants for women’s rights/advocacy groups for activities including meaningful participation in national accountability platforms/processes on family violence.
- Provision of financial grants and technical assistance to women’s organisations and community-based organisations in the design and implementation of social accountability tools for service providers, and in particular the justice system (police and judiciary) and to engage in CEDAW, CSW, UPR and CRC processes.
Funding Information
- Grenada: 3 Grants at USD 5,750 each;
- Guyana: 4 Grants at USD 20,000 each, 4 grants at USD 8,000 each;
- Trinidad and Tobago: 20 Grants at USD 8,950 each;
- The expected duration of this partnership is from April 15, 2021, to December 31, 2021.
Criteria
- Technical/functional competencies required:
- Implementing Partners must be a Registered Non-Governmental Organization.
- At least 3 years’ experience implementing initiatives on gender equality and women’s rights, including the elimination of violence against women.
- At least 3 years’ experience participating in national, regional or international social accountability platforms and processes.
- At least 3 years’ experience working as an NGO/civil society organization in the respective country in which the application is being made.
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Previous experience working on United Nations-funded projects.
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