Deadline: 15-Aug-23
UN Women is currently inviting Civil Society Organizations for implementation of capacity building, awareness raising and community engagement activities under Gender Parity for Strengthening Gender Responsive Justice in Pakistan Project.
UN Women Pakistan, with financial assistance from Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany, has recently launched a project ‘Improving Gender Parity for Strengthening Gender Responsive Justice in Pakistan’. In order to improve women’s access to quality and survivor-centered justice, it is important to increase women’s participation and trust in the justice system. It is crucial to enhance women’s role and their involvement in the sector for strengthening gender-responsive justice in Pakistan. This project aims to strengthen delivery of gender-responsive justice by increasing gender parity within the justice sector institutions particularly within the Police, Judiciary, Prosecution and the Bar in ICT, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. UN Women Pakistan, based on its previous experience with justice sector institutions (JSIs), believes that there is a dire need to create an enabling environment, so that women are incentivized to join and pursue a career in these institutions.
This project aims to work toward this by improving the gender parity in JSIs, and also by engaging the existing Police force, judicial officers and legal fraternity in deeper dialogue and capacity building around gender responsive policing. The proposed initiative will help these institutions to improve their standing and facilitate a conducive environment for professional growth of women in workforce with more focus on training and implementation of anti-harassment policies, humane handling of GBV survivors and overall gender sensitization.
The selected CSO will be required to work with Human Resource departments of Police and Judiciary, young women who aspire to join Police and Judiciary, Police and Judicial officers, and community networks to enhance gender parity in justice sector and promote gender just practices.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be PKR 35,000,000 – PKR 40,000,000.
- Duration of assignment: 1st October 2023 to 30th November 2024.
Services Required/Anticipated Results
UN Women Pakistan seeks services of an organization with demonstrated experience and success with Police, Judiciary and legal fraternity to enhance responsiveness of institutions and improve women’s access to services. The proposed initiative, as mentioned above, will focus on enhancing gender parity in JSIs and promote structural reforms that help institutionalize gender concerns ensuring a safe and enabling environment for women. The selected organization will be expected to work directly with the above-mentioned stakeholders to contribute to the following programme results:
- Police and Judicial Institutions’ human resources policies and capacities are strengthened for increased recruitment, retaining and career advancement opportunities
- Police and Judiciary personnel are equipped with essential tools and techniques for enhancing delivery of gender-responsive justice
- Increased representation of women Police officers in the community for addressing issues related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
Location
- Districts: Four Districts- Peshawar, Khyber, Swat, Kohat
- Province: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Eligibility Criteria
- Technical/functional competencies required are as follows:
- Geographic presence of organisation in the selected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Registered organization with legal statuary body in Pakistan. Registration with KP Charities’ Registration Authority (KCRA) is encouraged.
- A letter of understanding with any two justice sector stakeholders committing support for the proposed project
- Requirements and Registration
- At least 05 years of experience in designing and implementation of similar activities.
- Reputed nationally registered organization with representative office in Pakistan and outreach in mentioned areas of intervention.
- Proven track record of working in the area of women’s access to justice and EVAWG programs.
- Demonstrated experience in development of modules and delivery of trainings for police, judiciary and prosecution department. The applicant must submit at least 02 samples of training modules for GBV crimes developed for justice sector stakeholders.
- Previous experience with UN agencies or other international development agencies is an advantage.
- Ability to communicate in local language.
- A verifiable reputation of integrity and competence.
- A letter of understanding with any two justice sector stakeholders committing support for the proposed project
- Preferably active member organization of EVAWG Alliance KP.
- Strong district outreach and linkages with other EVAWG Alliance member organizations at KP level for ensuring collaborative work.
- Annual programme and audit reports of last three years.
- Experience and Functional Competencies
- Overall mission, purpose, and core programmes/services of the organization
- Firm Organizational experience on gender mainstreaming, Access to Justice and Rule of Law Programmes for women.
- Track record of similar work experience of the Pakistan specific access to justice and familiarity with international norms and standards on gender equality in the national and regional context.
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
- Having provincial working experience and presence of at least three years with similar interventions in KP and preferably in the selected districts.
- A variable reputation of integrity and competency. Proposed programme with a consortium approach of the Women rights based Organization
- Women Led organization OR with women occupying senior/decision/policy making level
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