Deadline: 5-Jul-24
UN Women has announced a call for proposals to strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable women and girls in Northwest Syria.
The overall goal of this call for proposals is to increase the resilience of crisis affected women and girls in Northwest Syria, including by addressing humanitarian needs of the internally displaced population there, through the provision of gender‐responsive and inclusive humanitarian services.
The call focuses on generating economic, social, and environmental results that enhance vulnerable women’s wellbeing and resilience both at the individual and community level. The project will employ a multi-dimensional holistic approach to achieve its objectives.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be (Min $50.000 USD– Max $100.000 USD)
Timeframe
- Start date and end date for completion of required services/results
- Project implementation is expected to start on 1 August 2024 and be completed by 31 January 2025 (6 months).
Required Services/Results
- The project aims to support 500 women in northwest Syria with seed funding and assets for the start-up of green agribusiness to increase their food basket. Under the WPS pillar, UN Women will continue the support for increased leadership and empowerment of 100 Syrian women, and their organizations, for their meaningful participation in political processes around climate change and green economy.
- UN Women will support with access to information on girls’ protection and rights to 2.000 women and their families (in Idlib and Aleppo) to understand the risks and dangers of child marriage, in collaboration with UN partners and local women’s organizations and following a context and conflict-sensitive approach.
- 600 young women and men (aged 18-30) based in Aleppo and Idlib will be supported with community-based intervention through assets (emergency supply kits) and capacity-building to help them to prepare, mitigate and respond to natural disasters through Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), especially earthquake preparedness and response. This activity will be implemented in collaboration with UN partners and CSOs working on DRR/climate change. These climate action initiatives will serve as catalysts for positive social change and cohesion among the returnee, refugee, displaced and host community families.
- Intended outcome: Strengthened resilience of 1400 vulnerable women and girls (returnees, IDPs and host community) in Syria (Aleppo and Idlib) to conflict, crisis, and climate change, through sustainable livelihoods, protection, social cohesion, and climate action.
- Outcome indicator: Percentage change in deployment of crisis and emergency type coping strategies of women with improved livelihoods
- Output 1.1: 600 women (refugees, returnees, IDPs and in host community) in Egypt, Iraq, and Syria have improved livelihoods and food security through green skills and assets.
- Output 1.2: 2000 women and girls (refugees, returnees and IDPs and host community) have timely and increased access to quality and comprehensive protection and response services, to support their safety and recovery in Egypt, Iraq, and Syria.
- Output 1.3: 600 young Syrian women and men (refugees, returnees and IDPs and host community) are empowered for immediate climate action.
- Indicative activities
- Support targeting 500 women in northwest Syria with seed funding and assets for the entrepreneurship.
- Provide access to information on girls’ protection and rights to 2.000 Syrian women and their families to sensitize on the risks and dangers of child marriage especially for girls.
- support the leadership and empowerment of 100 Syrian women for their meaningful participation in peace talks and political processes.
- 600 young women and men (aged 18-30) based in Aleppo and Idlib will be supported with community-based intervention through assets (emergency supply kits) and capacity-building to help them to prepare, mitigate and respond to natural disasters (DRR).
Competencies
- Technical/functional competencies required.
- 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 vocational training and/or small‐scale agricultural business development or small‐scale agrobusiness.
- 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.
- In the selection of partners, the following competencies will be considered:
- 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.
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