Call for Proposals: Increasing Resilience of Crisis Affected Women and Girls in Lebanon

Deadline: 15-Jan-24

UN Women seeks to engage a Responsible Party for the implementation of the Project “Increasing Resilience of Crisis Affected Women and Girls in Tyre (Sour) through comprehensive Livelihood and Protection Services,” which aims to increase the resilience of crisis affected women and girls in Tyre (Sour) in South Governorate, including by addressing new humanitarian needs of the internally displaced population there, through the provision of gender‐responsive and inclusive humanitarian services.

To support the achievement of this goal, UN Women Lebanon seeks to collaborate with local NGO(s) based in South governorate in Lebanon to provide inclusive services to crisis affected women and girls across all represented social groups (Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian women) and religious communities in Tyre (Sour) consisting of:

• Livelihood:
  • provision of Cash‐for‐Work for women and
  • training for women on sustainable agriculture practices.
• Protection:
  • conduct awareness raising sessions for women on protection from gender‐ based violence,
  • conduct training sessions for women to build/strengthen their leadership skills, and
  • establish referral systems to organizations providing legal aid and legal assistance to women to facilitate their access to justice regarding Personal Status law issues and gender‐based violence.
• Mental health and psychosocial:
  • provide psychosocial support to individual and/or groups of women to help them cope with high levels of stress.
• Support UN Women in conducting gender‐sensitive resilience capacity monitoring and evaluation of project results through supporting data collection at baseline and endline.
• Support UN Women in developing a Gender in Humanitarian Profile of South Lebanon through supporting data collection efforts.

Funding Information

• The budget range for this proposal should be USD 400,000 – USD 650,000, depending on the output. Proposals should be in USD.

Timeframe

• Project implementation is expected to start on 1 March 2024 and be completed by 30 April 2025 (14 months).

Outcome and Activities

• Intended Outcome:
  • Crises affected Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian women in South Lebanon Tyre (Sour) increase resilience through access to comprehensive emergency livelihood and protection services.
• Outcome indicator:  
  • Percentage of women participating in Cash‐for‐Work that report a reduction in reliance on negative coping strategies [Minimum 50%]
• Output 1.1: Crisis affected women access Cash‐for‐Work and develop related work skills in community kitchens and food production and processing.
  • Indicative activities:
    • Selection of beneficiaries based on vulnerability criteria and an equitable and inclusive allocation of resources.
    • Communicate project plans, including selection criteria, widely and transparently. Consider establishing a community feedback mechanism for the project.
    • Mobilize key stakeholders in the community, such as members of municipal councils, local police force, and faith‐based organizations to raise their awareness and support for the project objectives.
    • Engage crises affected women across different nationalities and social groups, including women with disabilities, in Cash‐for‐Work in local community kitchens, food processing and production to enable them to earn an income. Attention should be given to prioritizing the procurement of food and materials from local suppliers to support the local economy, where possible.
    • Facilitate arrangements of day care for children of women working at the community kitchen to enable the full participation of women in Cash‐for‐Work and other women in the community, if capacity allows.
  • Indicative targets:
    • Number of women participating in cash for work to meet basic needs. [Minimum 250. There will be 12 cycles of 20 women engaged in cash for work. Women will work for a total of 60 days, earning $10 per day. The daily rate may be adjusted in accordance to coordination with the livelihoods sector].
    • Percentage of women participating in cash for work who report an increased ability to spend on essential goods and services. [Minimum 90%]
• Output 1.2: Crisis affected women access psychosocial and GBV prevention services in a safe environment.
  • Indicative activities:
    • Selection of beneficiaries based on vulnerability criteria and an equitable and inclusive allocation of resources.
    • Communicate project plans, including selection criteria, widely and transparently. Consider establishing a community feedback mechanism for the project.
    • Provide specialized psychosocial support for women participating in cash‐for‐work and other women from their communities to enable them to better cope with challenges.
    • Conduct awareness raising sessions for women in the community kitchen and other women from their communities on violence against women and girls so they can recognize GBV and learn where they can report or seek help, when needed.
    • Ensure effective referral of cases of violence against women requiring legal intervention to organizations providing legal aid and legal assistance to facilitate women’s access to justice especially in matters related to Personal Status law issues such as divorce, child custody and alimony as well as gender‐based violence.
  • Indicative targets:
    • Number of women accessing psychosocial and GBV prevention services. [Minimum 600 women]
    • Number of key stakeholders, such as municipal councils, police force and religious leaders participating in capacity building activities to influence gender/social norms. [Minimum 130 stakeholders]

Competencies

• In the selection of partners, the following competencies will be considered:
  • Soundness of technical competency described in the approach to the outputs as described in the Terms of Reference for the Call for Proposals.
  • Organisations with a track record of working on advancing women’s rights and women`s economic empowerment, have a proven experience in managing a community kitchen and/ or small‐scale agricultural business development or small‐scale agro-business.
  • 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.
  • Do no harm approach that aims to identify and mitigate the unintended negative effects of the humanitarian interventions.
  • The project adopts an approach that is sustainable and builds on local knowledge and institutional experiences.
  • Experience implementing cash‐for‐work and/or other cash‐based programming is strongly preferred.
• Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services:
  • Organizations are encouraged to use a sub‐partnering modality with local community‐ based organizations of diverse backgrounds while answering this call: Sub‐partners may only be used for partial implementation of a project. Partners cannot “outsource” all the activities for which they are responsible. A Partner must thus always retain some of the work and deliver on this work as required.
  • Organizations who decide to use a sub‐ partnering modality must provide information regarding the use of Sub‐partners (where relevant) and, if known, the names of such Sub‐ partners. If not known at the time of the proposal, the Partner shall immediately inform UN Women of the name/s of its Sub‐partner/s.
  • Organizations shall ensure that each Sub‐partner agrees in writing to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Partner Agreement relevant to the portion of the work to be performed by such Sub‐partner.

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