Deadline: 18-Sep-21
UN Women is calling for proposals for Strengthening Women livelihoods to involve international or national organizations working on strengthening Women’s capacity in livelihoods, access to markets, savings and enhancing sustainable business skills development in the internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities to contribute to achieve the project outcomes and outputs.
The project will directly benefit a total of 3,440 women (mainly IDPs and women at risk in host communities) in Kismayo and Baidoa in sustaining their livelihoods and resilience.
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the economic empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.
It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
The project supports the enhanced capacity of women on agriculture production, financial literacy and savings capacity, supply chain and business development, which will be enhanced through intervention outlined in the call for proposal.
The project will support opportunities for climate smart agriculture and livelihood enhancement and business skills developments opportunities for women in Jubaland and Southwest States.
The market assessments undertaken through the project will guide quality interventions and enhancing successful microbusinesses opportunities and production on climate resilience crops.
Funding Information
- The budget range for this proposal should be a total maximum $410,000 under the Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access, and Protection (LEAP) project in Somalia (Both Kismayo and Baidoa)
Outputs
- Positive coping mechanisms and sustainable economic activities are promoted for refugee and IDP women.
- Output 1.1: Crisis-affected and at-risk Women have enhanced access to livelihood skills, training, tools and technologies in relation to climate smart agriculture.
- Activity 1.1.2: Provide training on climate smart agriculture and supply chain to at least 200 female headed Households who are displaced and affected by crisis in Kismayo and Baidoa.
- Activity 1.1.3: Provide 200 women who are displaced, and crisis affected with farming tools to grow and produce maize, sweet potatoes and other climate resilient crops in Kismayo and Baidoa.
- Output 1.2: Women micro and small entrepreneurs are supported to set up and improve their operations in agriculture and non-agricultural sectors.
- Activity 1.2.4: Support training of 400 rural women farmers on post-harvest handling processes and management of community-based storage facilities. and establish market information and access networks and teams to promote timely and accurate market knowledge in Kismayo and Baidoa.
- Output 1.3: Women’s access to savings and credit is enhanced.
- Activity 1.3.1: Establish 10 Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) in Somalia (5 Kismayo and 5 Baidoa) (1 in each villagex10 villages with a target outreach of at least 100 members in each VSLA).
- Activity 1.3.2: Provide training for members of VSLAs-on-VSLAs Operations, Leadership and Conflicts Management, and financial literacy (record keeping, bookkeeping, expenditure prioritization and financial management) in Kismayo and Baidoa.
- Output 1.1: Crisis-affected and at-risk Women have enhanced access to livelihood skills, training, tools and technologies in relation to climate smart agriculture.
- Refugee and IDP women lead and participate in decision making and social cohesion activities with increased support from men and boys thereby enabling more equitable relationships, free from violence.
- Output 2.2: Refugee, IDP women and women in host communities have increased capacities and skills to participate in and lead settlement management and local decision-making processes.
- Activity 2.2.1: Develop training manuals and conduct trainings for 60 women from 40 local women’s rights organizations on institutional capacity strengthening and management; advocacy and leadership skills and resource mobilization in Somalia (Kismayo and Baidoa 20 each).
- Output 2.2: Refugee, IDP women and women in host communities have increased capacities and skills to participate in and lead settlement management and local decision-making processes.
Competencies
Technical/functional competencies required.
- The Call for Implementing Partners is open to international and national organization that has capacities to deliver and experts. Applications are encouraged particularly from organizations which focus on:
- Evidence-based programming, building on lessons learned and recommended practices, to ensure optimal results and use of resources.
- Women economic empowerments initiatives and gender-responsive approaches that place first priority on promoting and enhancing women’s livelihoods, access to market, business development skills and climate smart agricultures opportunities for crisis affected or IDPs, and at-risk women and host communities as well as strengthening institutional capacities from the local and national levels.
- Focus on disadvantaged groups, including those living in poverty, IDPs, refugee, host communities or otherwise especially excluded, and ensuring responsiveness to diversity.
- Coordination and multi-sectorial partnerships, including among government organizations, nongovernmental organizations, women, and other civil society groups.
- Commitment to sharing knowledge, by documenting, evaluating, and disseminating results, and working with UN Women staff including developing monitoring systems that can track the progress towards economic empowerment thousands of beneficiaries.
- Priority placed on sustainability of results.
- Experience in working on climate change and smart agriculture, and gender impacts, women economic empowerment and resilience and livelihood opportunities, VSLAs and crop production and skills in the context of IDPs, the crisis affected and at-risk in Somalia and other fragile contexts.
- Applying partners must introduce a section for knowledge management to showcase how they will mobilize, linkages/synergy with ongoing similar interventions within or outside of the organization, disseminate and ensure action from knowledge generated from this project.
Other competencies, which can be an asset for the performance of services:
- Transformation of inequitable gender norms and power disparities between women and men, and empowerment of women and girls to thrive as equals through out programme.
- Holistic responses that address’ inter-related rights and needs, including safety, access to livelihoods and markets access promotion, and enhancement of women economic opportunities and business development.
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