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Call for Proposals: Support Governmental Partners, Women Leaders and CSOs in Iraq & Yemen

Deadline: 30-Jul-23

UN Women is looking to partner with an NGO to advance the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE) agenda by supporting governmental partner and CSOs.

The project will strengthen the government and civil society’s capacity in advocacy, communications, coordination, leadership, M&E and strategic planning.

Objective
  • Support Governmental Partners, Women Leaders and CSOs in their efforts to advance the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE) agenda
    • Impact 1/Outcome 1.1:
      • Output 1.1.1: Yemeni women and youth advocates and CSOs have enhanced capacity to participate and lead in multi-track peacebuilding processes, governance and decision-making structures at sub-national and local level.
      • Output 1.1.3: Government institutions and service providers have enhanced capacity to respond to the protection needs of women, girls, vulnerable and marginalized populations
    • Impact 8/Outcome 8.1-8.3:
      • Output 8: Women and girls in Iraq contribute to and have influence in building sustainable peace and resilience and benefit equally from the prevention of conflicts and disasters.
      • Output 8.3.1: Women and youth enjoy increased participation in leadership, decision-making and peace-building mechanisms influencing political parties, service delivery organizations, media and local governments to promote gender equality in leadership and participation.
  • Activities contributing to the above outcomes and outputs:
    • Sensitize women and men in leadership positions – including women candidates, elected women, women leaders in CSOs, women and men in senior governmental positions – on WPS and women’s role in peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
    • Organize capacity building trainings/workshops and conferences to enhance women’s machineries, CSOs, women leaders, women in politics and justice sector’s capacities to implement their work on GEWE, WPP and WPS.
    • Organize meetings, consultative sessions and events with CSOs, government, women leaders and women in politics to facilitate their work on GEWE, WPP and WPS.
    • Organize advocacy and awareness raising campaigns for the commemoration of GEWE, WEE, WPP and WPS.
    • Provide technical and coordination support on GEWE, WEE, WPP and WPS.
    • Develop Knowledge products including national researches and assessments related to GEWE including design, printing, dissemination, and audio video production (if needed).
Funding Information
  • The budget range for this proposal should be $450,000- $490,000.
Timeframe
  • Upon signature of contract— January 2024 (6 months)
  • The partnership will commence upon signature of the partnership agreement with the selected organization and will end by January 2024.
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 project as described in the Terms of Reference for the Call for Proposals, to be demonstrated by a track record of successful programmatic interventions.
      • Capacity to deliver expected results: governance and management competency, and financial and administrative competency, demonstrated by previous partnerships with UN Women or other donor organisations.
      • Relevance of the mandate and the role of the organization to implement expected results and to contribute to the sustainability of said results, demonstrated by expertise in gender-related work and community outreach.
  • Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services.

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