Deadline: 08-Apr-21
UN Women is seeking Responsible Parties to implement initiatives for Syria aimed at building trust and cooperation across diverse communities, increasing gender responsiveness of media actors, and strengthening the influence of women’s civil society to advance gender equality and women’s rights.
Focus Areas
Organizations are expected to submit proposals for one of these three areas:
- Building trust and cooperation across diverse communities
- Build alliances on women’s rights by bringing together women from diverse areas of Syria and different backgrounds to work on common issue or issues of gender equality and women’s rights related to the political process;
- Facilitate long-term dialogues between women from diverse backgrounds to build trust;
- Implement initiatives that seek to link women’s civil society to the political process;
- Gender responsive media
- Train and work with media professionals, journalists and social media influencers to report on the gender dimensions of conflict and the political process and analyze the gender aspects of Syria’s media landscape;
- Civil society engagement
- Build the capacity and influence of women’s civil society to respond to policy windows and advocate for change related to women’s rights and gender equality; and
- Strengthen the organizational foundation of civil society to hold space on women’s rights and gender equality.
All applications should demonstrate how the project will:
- Draw on peacebuilding approaches and frameworks;
- Ensure that diverse women are included in all activities and that an intersectional approach is undertaken (women from different political backgrounds, religious beliefs, women with disabilities, women from diverse geographies, and various age groups, etc.);
- Embed conflict sensitivity in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the project, taking into account the safety and security of project personnel and beneficiaries;
- Deliver in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
- Adjust to challenges related to working on the Syrian context;
- Undertake monitoring and evaluation, including collection of baseline and end line monitoring data to measure intended project outcomes
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be USD 100,000 – 300,000.
- UN Women is seeking partners to implement projects of up to 18 months between 2021 and 2023.
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required
- Demonstrated focus on women’s rights and gender equality for Syria;
- Track record on using peacebuilding frameworks;
- Demonstrated experience in one of the three workstream areas;
- Experience in implementing programming that draws on peacebuilding frameworks and conflict sensitive approaches;
- Ability to work across Syria’s diversity, including women from different political backgrounds, religious beliefs, ages, geographies, abilities etc.;
- Capacity to deliver expected results (governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency);
- Relevance of the mandate and the role of the organization to implement expected results and to contribute to the sustainability of said results.
- Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
- Women-led national organizations based within the Middle East, regional organizations, youth organizations, and disabled person organizations (DPOs) are strongly encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit https://arabstates.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/programme-implementation/2021/03/call-for-proposals-gender-and-peacebuilding-for-syria
