Call for Proposals: Promoting Recovery of Internally Displaced and Returnee Women & Girls – Mozambique

Deadline: 31-Oct-23

UN Women is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the Project “Promoting socioeconomic recovery and resilience of internally displaced and returnee women and girls in Northern Mozambique” funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

The call seeks to find implementing Partners (Civil Society Organizations, including women-led organizations) with a strong track record in implementing programs focused on promoting the gender equality, women’s socioeconomic empowerment and humanitarian action.

Goal and Objectives

• Overall goal: Women in Cabo Delgado lead and benefit from humanitarian-relief and recovery efforts.
• Specific Objectives include:
  • Empower displaced women and girls to be active players in planning, designing, building, and maintaining adequate, accessible, safe and resilient resettlement housing in fragile and conflict-affected areas;
  • Facilitate women’s and adolescent girls’ access to sustainable livelihoods and socioeconomic opportunities; and
  • Increase the access of conflict-affected women and girls to effective services and protection mechanism.

Components

• Component 1: Promoting the conflict-affected women’s technical knowhow on building (construction) as well as access to adequate, accessible, safe and resilient homes
  • Geographical Focus: Palma and Mocimboa da Praia Districts
  • Expected Collaboration: ADIN, Provincial and District Government Authorities, and UN agencies
  • Type of Interventions
    • Intervention 1
      • Train returnees, prioritizing participation of women and girls, on the construction of adequate, accessible, safe and resilient housing (On-the-job training on construction).
      • Available Budget: 2,704,000 MZN
    • Intervention 2
      • Allocate housing kits (with conventional, mixed and local construction materials) to women and provide ongoing technical support to construct adequate, accessible, safe and resilient housing in the return areas.
      • Available Budget: 88,930,000 MZN
  • The total budget available for component 1 is 91,634,000 MZN.
• Component 2: Promoting the socioeconomic recovery of and access to sustainable livelihoods for women and young women affected by conflict.
  • Geographical Focus: Palma, Mocimboa da Praia, Nangade, Muidumbe, Macomia & Quissanga Districts
  • Expected Collaboration: ADIN, IFPELAC, BAU, Provincial and District Government Authorities, and private sector
  • Type of Interventions
    • Intervention 1
      • Design and implement a vocational training programme for women and young women affected by conflict.
      • Available Budget: 33,950,000 MZN
    • Intervention 2
      • Undertake key employability skills development sessions for women and young women and disseminate guidelines for employment seekers in line with the National Employment Policy.
      • Available Budget: 5,408,000, MZN
    • Intervention 3
      • Conduct business mentorship and financing initiatives for women and young women affected by conflict.
      • Available Budget: 66,980,000 MZN
    • Intervention 4
      • Facilitate business licensing for women-owned micro and small businesses.
      • Available Budget: 24,035,000 MZN
  • The total budget available for component 2 is 130,373,000 MZN.
• Component 3: Increasing access by conflict-affected women and girls to effective gender-based violence and conflict-related essential services and protection mechanisms.
  • Geographical Focus: Palma, Mocimboa da Praia, Nangade, Muidumbe, Macomia & Quissanga Districts
  • Expected Collaboration: MGCAS (and multisectoral mechanism), Provincial and Local Governments, and other civil society/grassroots/religious organizations
  • Interventions 1
    • Capacity building of service providers who provide comprehensive services to redress—including protection, mental and physical health, psychosocial and legal services—to gender-based violence and conflict-related violence cases to women and girls in return areas.
  • Available Budget: 14,421,000 MZN
• The total budget available for component 3 is 14,421,000 MZN.

Timeframe

• The organization will have approximately 2 years to implement the activities under this proposal (January 2024 until November 2025), for which the responsibilities are outlined above in this TOR.
• In addition, the last 3 months of the project should be dedicated to reporting and the production of final knowledge and communication products; however, it is also expected that the responsible partner produces regular knowledge and communications products on the results of the project (it would advise to reflect this element throughout the proposal).

Expected Outcomes       

• Outcome 1: Returnee and conflict-affected women empowered to be active players in planning, designing, building and maintaining of adequate, accessible, safe and resilient resettlement housing in fragile and conflict-affected areas.
• Outcome 2: Women and young women affected by conflict have access to sustainable livelihoods and socioeconomic opportunities.
• Outcome 3: Increased access by conflict-affected women and girls to effective services and protection mechanisms in temporary shelters and return areas.

Expected Outputs           

• Output 1.1: Increased skills development and job creation for returnee women on (re)construction and maintenance of adequate, affordable, safe and resilient housing.
• Output 1.2: New adequate, accessible, safe and resilient homes built in priority locations through community participation, especially returnee women, in coordination with national and local authorities.
• Output 2.1: Women and young women in return areas have access to technical and vocational education and training as well as key employability skills.
• Output 2.2: Women and young women affected by conflict have access to microfinance and business development support (micro and small enterprises).
• Output 3.1: Women and girls affected by violence have access to comprehensive services to redress—including appropriate protection, health and psychosocial and legal services-in return areas.

Competencies

• Technical/functional competencies required
  • UN Women would like to engage organizations with a strong focus and extensive experience in the promotion of gender equality, women´s empowerment, Women, Peace and Security, gender-responsive humanitarian action strategies/programmes/initiatives. More specially, the organizations should respect the following criteria:
    • Legal status: Applicants must have valid legal status with the Government of Mozambique as a civil society organization (meaning a non-State, not-for-profit, voluntary Entities formed by people in the social sphere that are separate from the State and the market. CSO includes but are not limited to community-based organizations (CBOs), non-Governmental organizations (NGOs), youth-led organizations, LGBTI organizations, and faith-based organizations).
    • Gender equality focus: Applicants must demonstrate experience in implementing programmes on gender equality with a focus on ending violence against women and girls.
    • Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy: Applicants must have policy on how to deal with sexual exploitation and abuse in the workplace.
    • Audit reports: Applicant must provide certified audit reports for 2-3 previous fiscal years (and 2020 if available).
    • Endorsement: Applicants must submit at least one Letter of Endorsement from a gender equality or women’s empowerment mechanism, governmental authority on gender equality, or other multi-stakeholder institution (including UN offices other than UN Women). Please note: To ensure fairness, Letters of Endorsement by UN Women offices will not be accepted.
    • Conflict Impact, risk and mitigation Strategy.
  • Important notes
    • Proposals should ideally reflect partnerships among civil society organizations, the private sector and Government institutions. Special attention will be paid to organizations with a demonstrated record of working with local women’s organizations especially grassroots women’s organizations and specialised women’s entrepreneurship development networks. Prioritization will also be given to organizations with a record of work in behavioural change targeting men and boys at community level as well as opinion, community, and religious leaders.
    • Proposals from more than one organization or entity must clearly indicate which organization will take lead responsibility for project management and contractual obligations.
    • UN Women will sign contracts with and disburse funds to the applicant organization only.
    • Eligible organizations currently partnering with UN Women may apply under this call for proposals.
• Other competencies, which while not required, can be an added value:
  • Women-led Organisation: Applicants that are led by a woman and have 50% of the female employees have an added advantage,
  • Local Based: Applicants that are locally based organisation (at Provincial or District levels) have an added advantage. However, all applicants must have verifiable local presence at the province or at district the district level.

Ineligibility Criteria

• The following are not eligible to apply to either of the project:
  • Government agencies or institutions
  • UN agencies
  • Bilateral or multilateral organisations, financial institutions, development agencies
  • Private sector entities
  • Private individuals

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