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Call for Proposals: Supporting Women’s Leadership in Peace and Transition Processes in the MENA Region

Deadline: 20-Jul-2023

UN Women seeks to contribute to building sustainable peace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by strengthening women’s leadership and participation in high level peace and transition processes, through the transfer of evidence-based knowledge and skills to empower institutions and key actors, including women in the region themselves, to engage in and influence peace processes.

UN Women Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS) is implementing the project Enhancing Women’s Leadership for Sustainable Peace in Fragile Contexts in the MENA Region- Phase III (2022-2025) funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), in cooperation with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. As part of this programme, UN Women’s approach is structured around three main components or outcome areas:

  • Women peace actors have strengthened knowledge, capacity and technical expertise, and ability to influence peace processes and political and decision-making processes
  • International, regional, and national stakeholders have improved information-sharing, dialogue and cross-fertilization towards inclusive peace and political processes.
  • Peace process actors have increased access to systemized evidence-based knowledge that documents women’s participation and influence and disseminate good practices and policies

Under this portfolio of work, UN Women implements activities at global policy level, across the MENA region and at country-level with a specific focus on Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen.

Progress in more inclusive peacemaking in the region is notable, yet making women’s direct participation and representation in track I processes a consistent practice remains far from reality, and efforts continue to be needed in this area. In this context, UN Women is looking for partners to implement activities to ensure women and young women in the region have the knowledge, capacities and access to meaningfully participate and lead in peace and political processes in the region and to ensure that more commitments on women, peace, and security are implemented by Member States and the UN system.

Funding Information
  • The budget range for this proposal should be [USD 50,000 – 70,000 (Min. – Max. )]
  • Duration: 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2024, or 12 months from signature.
Outputs & Activities
  • Output 1: Women peace actors have strengthened their knowledge, capacity and technical expertise to influence peace processes and political and decision-making processes
  • Through the programme, UN Women contributes to increasing avenues for and capacity of rights holders (women peacebuilders, groups, and CSOs) in the four focus countries to influence discussions on the future of their countries at all levels and processes and to ensure duty bearers (policy makers) integrate WPS commitments into all peace making and peacebuilding efforts. Increased investment and technical support to women peacebuilders and organizations support their strategic positioning and response on different thematic aspects of peace and security and organizational development.
  • UN Women Programme Activity 1.2: Support to women peace actors through regional convenings promoting comparative learning and exchange of lessons learnt and challenges”
    • Partner Activity 1.1: Consultations with women peace actors on challenges and lessons learned on women’s leadership and participation in peaceand transition processes
      • Key deliverables: Undertake 1-2 online consultations with women peacebuilders on women’s participation in peace and political processes in the 4 focus countries; production of report on key lessons learned and recommendations from consultations; dissemination of report
      • Timeframe: September 2023 –August 2024
    • UN Women Programme Activity 1.2: Support to women peace actors through regional convenings promoting comparative learning and exchange of lessons learnt and challenges”
    • Partner Activity 1.2: Support the organization of UN Women convenings and events on women’s leadership in peace and transition processes
      • Key Deliverable: Support to the organisation of UN Women regional convenings and events; organisation of side events and facilitation at the WPS Policy forum; support the drafting of conference report.
      • Timeframe: September 2023 until January 2024
  • Output 3: Peace process actors have increased access to systemized evidence-based knowledge that documents women’s participation and influence and disseminate good practices and policies
  • UN Women works to strengthen the development of cutting-edge knowledge products on evolving and thematic issues to women’s participation to inform deliberations and programming on WPS issues in the MENA region. The UN Women programme focuses on technical discussions with women peacebuilders and relevant stakeholders and WPS practitioners to update/identify further gaps in knowledge and discuss relevant and evolving topics that would make cutting-edge thinking available for the region.
    • UN Women Project Activity 3.1: Diversified, tailored, practical, and context-specific resources are published and translated.
    • Partner Activity 2.1: Production of case studies and policy papers related to women’s participation in peace and transition processes in the region
      • Key deliverable: 1 to 2 case studies and/or policy papers: each paper will be 5-10 single-spaced pages or 4000 to 5000 words and made available in both English and Arabic. Each reflect a comparative examination of different country contexts from across the world and suggested lessons learned, recommendations and room for further research. As a result, key stakeholders are provided with strategic information and guidance for the inclusion of women in ongoing peace processes
      • Timeframe: 1 to 2 case studies/policy papers/background papers delivered between September 2023 and August 2024
Competencies
  • Soundness of technical competency described in the approach to the outcome/outputs as described in the Terms of Reference
  • 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.

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