Deadline: 15-Mar-24
UN Women Cameroon Country Office has been funded by the Government of Cameroon to implement a project titled “Ring Road and Gender” that seeks to improve the productivity and reduce time and labor burdens of women, promote opportunities for women farmers to participate in, and move up the green value chain, develop context specific, affordable and scalable learning, entrepreneurship and employment pathways for empowering women living along the ring road.
This project covers the entire ring road (375km) involving 6 divisions starting from Bamenda, Ndop, Kumbo, Nkambe, Misaje, Mungong, Kimbi, Nyos, Weh, Wum, Bafut and Bamenda. It targets 3,850 women as direct beneficiaries; 140 cooperatives/women’s organizations/CIGs and 30,000 women as indirect beneficiaries) all located along the stretch of the road. It includes several connections to the Nigerian border, notably from Misaje.
In Cameroon, UN Women is implementing its New Strategic Note for the period 2022-2026, which focuses on four impact areas (Governance and Participation in Public Life; Economic Empowerment and Resilience; Ending Violence Against Women and Girls; Peace and Security, Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction).
It is structured around four components, namely (i) road works; (ii) related facilities and support for women and youths; (iii) institutional support; and (iv) programme management and coordination.
The project aims that by 2024, the economic status and living conditions of the women living along the road are improved through the development of income-generating. It has four output as follows:
- Output 1: Rural women in the project area increase their production and productivity for food security and nutrition
- Output 2: Rural women in the project’s area of influence benefit from processing and storage equipment and facilities to alleviate the burden of work, post-harvest losses and poor sales.
- Output 3: Rural women economic operators in the project’s area of influence access markets for the sale of their products through solid partnerships with public and private stakeholders
- Output 4: Coordination, monitoring-evaluation, communication and reporting
Objectives of the selection process
- Main objective
- To select Civil Society Organization (CSO) or Local NGO (LNGO) to join UN Women in the implementation of the ring road and gender project. One CSO shall be selected to implement project activities in one Division. Therefore 6 CSO to be selected to serve the 6 Divisions involved in the project.
- Specific objectives:
- Identify 6 CSO/LNGO operating in hard-to-reach communities along the ring road to cover the 6 Divisions of the project
- Identify on 6 CSO/LNGO operating within the mandate or thematic areas with UN Women along the ring road
- Select 6 CSO/LNGO based on the selection criteria put in place to partner with UN Women
- List the activities CSO/LNGO will be carrying out alongside UN Women
- Select one CSO per Division to implement within the ring road and gender project
- To sign MoU with identified CSO/LNGO so they will effectively implement some of the activities of the project
Services/Results Required
- Identify functioning and registered CIGs and women cooperatives in the 6 divisions covering the ring road.
- Train 50 rural women’s cooperatives in improved fallow techniques, soil conservation, shade-grown crops, fruit horticulture and the extension of non-timber forest products (pharmacopoeia and food).
- Support the restructuring of associations, CIG and family businesses into 50 rural cooperatives promoting the development of value chains in the intervention zones
- Build the capacity of 200 women and 10 cooperatives/groups of women to master the techniques and technologies of drying, preservation, management of quality standards, packaging and management of units and equipment.
- Build the capacity of 200 women and 10 cooperatives/groups of women to master the techniques and technologies of drying, preservation, management of quality standards, packaging and management of units and equipment.
- Train 50 rural women’s cooperatives to produce and maintain energy from organic and plant matter (plant biomass, biogas, etc.).
- Train 50 women’s cooperatives/groups in marketing techniques, savings and inventory management, business planning, women’s entrepreneurship (GERME) and financial education.
- Distribution of agricultural inputs for 30 cooperatives (seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, etc.)
- Distribution of 30 breeding kits
- Distribution of 30 equipment kits (wheelbarrows, racks, sprayers, motorized pumps, etc.)
- Distribution of 200 improved stoves
- Distribution of 30 tricycles to transport produce from ponds and farms to sales outlets
- Distribution of inputs to 70 cooperatives (seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, etc.).
Competencies
- Technical/functional skills required
- Provide documents that attest that:
- You are a national NGO regularly registered with the Ministry of Territorial Administration (receipt of declaration of existence up to date);
- You have experience working in the field of agric business , agriculture, animal rearing, value chain, group dynamics, book keeping etc
- Proven credibility in gender tracking, mainstreaming and responsiveness
- Proven credibility working towards gender equality and the empowerment of women, policy and practice level engagements in crop and animal production, preservation and conservation and marketing.
- You have a good knowledge of the sociocultural context of the targeted areas;
- You will be available to perform the services upon signing the contract;
- You have a good capacity for teamwork, initiative and writing;
- You have the minimum staff required and provide their CV
- Evidence of its activities in the field (activity and financial reports for the years 2021 and 2022);
- Identifiable and functional headquarters location;
- Bank account registration in the name of the association
- An M and E in the team
- Provide documents that attest that:
- N.B: Interested CSO/ local NGO are advised to apply to work in any of the following Divisions (Donga Mantung, Bui, Mezam, Ngoketunjia, Boyo, Menchum) where you have experience implementing projects.
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