Call for Proposals for CSO’s to aid Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Turkey

Deadline: 7-Jun-21

UN Women call for proposals to Strengthening Civil Society Capacities and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to advance women’s rights and gender equality in Turkey.

The overall goal of this Call for Proposal is to increase the resources and capacities of women’s rights/women-led CSOs and other relevant rights-based CSOs in Turkey to advance the rights of women and girls where gender gaps persist – in line with Turkey’s national and international commitments and in consideration of COVID-19 impacts.

Thematic Areas

PAs will be awarded in three lots, in the thematic areas of:

• LOT 1: Elimination of violence against women and girls
  • Strengthen and implement the policy and legal framework on preventing and combating different forms of violence against women and girls, in line with the international norms and standards;
  • Advance favourable social norms, attitudes and behaviours to prevent violence against women and girls;
  • Enhance the availability, accessibility and quality of essential servicesso the impacts of violence are addressed and perpetrators are held accountable;
  • Implement and improve good practice service standards for the effective provision of specialist support services for women survivors of violence;
  • Provide trainings for local service providers to deliver quality, coordinated services, to hold perpetrators to account, and to collect and use of data in an ethical manner, in line with the internationally accepted standards;
  • Provide capacity building support to grassroots women’s rights organisations to establish or operate counselling centres, crisis centers, helplines, etc.; and to provide legal aid, referrals and other relevant modalities of support for survivors of violence against women and girls;
  • Strengthen the dialogue between public service providers and CSOs at the central and local levels;
  • Implement advocacy and awareness-raising activities to increase women’s understanding of their rights to quality essential services and to contribute to higher rates of reporting and use of support services. – Initiatives to combat specific forms of violence such as online and ICT-facilitated violence against women and girls, sexual violence in public spaces, etc.
• LOT 2: Access to justice and human rights mechanisms
  • Identify and provide evidence regarding the barriers to women’s access to justice in response to violations of women’s rights, at the different levels and stages of the justice delivery chain, including for survivors/victims of violence against women in relation to different forms of discrimination or violence;
  • Promote women’s access to justice and/or human rights mechanisms in the above-mentioned non-exhaustive fields; – Promote the rights of women to receive information about available justice/human rights mechanisms, including on violence against women and girls;
  • Address state and non-state service providers’ capacity needs and develop/implement models for the establishment of new services or the strengthening of existing ones in line with the international normative framework and standards;
  • Support the enhancement of human rights mechanisms’ capacities in Turkey to handle complaints and applications with regards to women’s rights and gender equality in line with the international and national norms and standards. This may include designing and implementing capacity development trainings, development of guidelines or tools in collaboration with human rights mechanisms for their use;
  • Design and implement innovative peer-to-peer support programmes to increase (young) women’s knowledge, information and awareness with regards to access to justice and human rights mechanisms;
  • Foster the empowerment of survivors of violence against women and of women and girls subject to discriminatory acts while accessing justice and/or human rights mechanisms, provide comprehensive, accurate, practical and tailor-made information to ensure their immediate access to support;
  • Design and implement campaigns to inform women about their rights and justice services available to them, referral mechanisms for survivors/victims of violence against women and girls, on discriminatory acts in the labour market, education, health, public services, etc., and how to gain access to the formal justice and human rights mechanism, including marginalized women, women and with disabilities and special needs, and those facing multiple forms of discrimination;
  • Foster dialogue with the local and national human rights mechanisms including the Ombudsman institution.
• LOT 3: Advancing women’s economic empowerment
  • Generate data and conduct evidence-based advocacy with regards to women’s economic empowerment, including but not limited to:
    • women’s employment in decent work,
    • work/life balance,
    • women’s disproportionate care burden,
    • gender pay gap,
    • marginalised women’s access to the labour market,
    • gender-based segregation of the labour market and stigma,
    • violence and harassment against women in the world of work,
    • innovation for advancing women’s economic empowerment
  • Provide capacity development, networking support to women-led cooperatives, women-led social enterprises, networks and civil society organizations of women-led businesses.
  • Implement activities to strengthen women’s access to social protection and addressing unpaid care and domestic work barriers to women’s labour market participation, career advancement.
  • Implement complementary activities for re-skilling, increasing digital and soft skills of women, e.g. leadership, communication, conflict resolution, negotiation, public speaking, financial literacy, numeracy, teamwork.

Funding Information

• The budget range for this proposal should be minimum USD 130,000 and maximum USD 170,000.
• The period of implementation shall be minimum 24 months.

Output

• Under the present Call for Proposals UN Women will award Partner Agreements (PAs) to civil society organizations to contribute to the achievement of the project Output:
  • Output 1: “Women’s rights/women-led civil society organizations and other relevant rights-based CSOs in Turkey have increased resources and capacities to advance the rights of women and girls in fields where gender gaps persist – economic empowerment, elimination of violence against women, and access to justice/human rights mechanisms – in line with Turkey’s national and international commitments and in consideration of COVID-19 impacts.”

Competencies

• Technical/functional competencies required:
  • Track record of experience in the field of women’s human rights, gender equality, women’s empowerment.
  • Specialized knowledge and expertise in the field that the proposal is submitted under (elimination of violence against women, increasing women’s access to justice/human rights mechanisms, advancing women’s economic empowerment).
  • Experience in engaging with multiple stakeholders, including but not limited to: governmental and nongovernmental organizations, community-based organizations and advocacy networks.
  • The CSO will be selected only if it has proven capacity to deliver the proposed activity. The CSO’s capacity will be assessed by UN Women as per UN Women’s policies, rules and regulations.
• Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services:
  • Experience in facilitating exchange of ideas, good practices and dissemination of knowledge and information throughout Turkey in the specific field of work is an asset.
  • Familiarity with UN Women will be an asset.

For more information, visit https://eca.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2021/05/cfp-strengthening-civil-society-capacities-to-advance-womens-rights-in-turkey