Deadline: 30-Jul-23
UN Women is looking for partnerships with an NGO to advance the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE) agenda by supporting governmental partners (Including ministries), CSO’s and women Leaders in their efforts to implement the WPP and WPS agenda.
This proposal aims at advancing the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE) agenda by supporting governmental partners (Including ministries), CSO’s and women Leaders in their efforts to implement the WPP and WPS agenda. Through this proposal, UN Women aims to strengthen capacities of the government and civil society in advocacy, coordination, conflict resolution and seeks to empower women leaders/gender champions to lead on INAP II implementation.
Objectives
- Support Governmental Partners, Women Leaders and CSOs in their efforts to implement the WPP and WPS agenda in Iraq.
- Impact 8/Outcome 8.1: Strengthened and effective inclusive, people centred, gender-responsive, human rights-based policies and national systems contribute to gender equality, the promotion of protection, social protection, social cohesion and peaceful societies, with focus on the most vulnerable populations, including women, youth and minorities.
- Output 8.1.2: National Institutions and mechanisms, including with the participation of civil society, are able to promote the effective implementation of WPS commitments as well as women’s participation and leadership in decision-making at national, sub-national and community levels.
- 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.
- Impact 8/Outcome 8.1: Strengthened and effective inclusive, people centred, gender-responsive, human rights-based policies and national systems contribute to gender equality, the promotion of protection, social protection, social cohesion and peaceful societies, with focus on the most vulnerable populations, including women, youth and minorities.
- The below activities contribute 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.
- Organise capacity building sessions and workshops for newly elected women MPs, aspiring candidates and potential leaders and provincial elections, on leadership, technical skills, negotiation and conflict management.
- Provide technical support to women leaders in peacekeeping and peacebuilding committees for drafting 6 WPS related advocacy and policy papers.
- Organize meetings, consultations, coordination meetings and events with CSOs, women leaders and women in politics to facilitate their work on GEWE, WPP, WPS and the INAPII.
- Provide technical and financial support to relevant ministries to implement the 6 INAP II sectorial ministerial plans in partnership with civil society.
- Women peace actors have strengthened knowledge, capacity and technical expertise and ability to influence peace processes and political and decision-making processes.
- Provide technical support to women leaders regarding the upcoming provincial council elections.
- Organize advocacy and awareness raising campaigns for the commemoration of 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).
- Support the national research on women and media in partnership with the Communication and Media Commission (CMC).
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 UNWomen 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.
- 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.
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